SAP.iO NO BOUNDARIES

Ensuring all innovators are empowered to start-up with SAP

SAP.iO No Boundaries is the first comprehensive inclusive entrepreneurship initiative in the business software industry.

Our Mission

To help the world run better and improve peoples’ lives by empowering innovators from all backgrounds to start-up with SAP.

Our Commitment

We will accelerate 200+ startups with a female and/or underrepresented founder/CXO by 2023. We will also work to embed inclusion in SAP’s culture, in the cultures of our customers, and the startups we engage with.

Our Progress

Since 2019, 50% of the startups we’ve worked with have a female/underrepresented founder or CXO.

Recent News

Follow our journey as we further embed inclusion in SAP’s culture, in the cultures of customers and in the startups with which we engage.

Inclusiveness
October 28, 2021

In a League of their Own: How Female Leaders Help Power SAP Store

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been friendly to women in the workforce, setting gender parity efforts back by a generation or more, according to the World Economic Forum. However, while the…
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September 6, 2021

Henkel : Idea Hackathon supports 100 early-stage female founders

The Henkel Xathon, an ideation hackathon for female founders, is taking place for the third time. The aim is to promote female entrepreneurs and talents in the technology industry, strengthen…
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March 24, 2021

Corporate investors hold the key to fostering inclusive entrepreneurship

Alarming headlines about women leaving the workforce during the pandemic abound. A quick Google on the topic will yield results including “How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward”, “Women’s COVID-Fueled…
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March 11, 2021

Getting Energized to Level the Playing Field

A conversation with Amanda Niklaus, PPA Transaction Manager in the renewable industry. The Road Less Traveled What initially drew you to the energy industry? During my Master’s studies, there was…
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Our Stories

How diversity yields better innovation.

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“Being a small company and having access to SAP’s large ecosystem has meant that we’ve been able to go global much faster. We are very thankful for the incredible support that we received from the SAP.iO team and SAP.”

Caitlin MacGregorCo-Founder & CEO, Plum

“SAP.iO has been incredibly involved and high-touch from the early beginning and helped us navigate through important milestones of our business.”

Lonnie Rae KurlanderCo-Founder & CEO, Medal

“Investing in diversity makes fundamental business sense.”

Ram JambunathanManaging Director, SAP.iO

“SAP.iO is the first accelerator in NYC to ever launch a program focused on women-led enterprise startups. We can’t be prouder of what we accomplished with these talented founders and their companies.”

Vanessa LiuVice President, SAP.iO Foundries North America

Featured Initiatives

SAP.iO No Boundaries Partners with Les Déterminés to Support Entrepreneurship in Working-Class Neighborhoods and Rural Areas

SAP France announces that its SAP.iO Foundry Paris accelerator is supporting the 12th promotion of the association Les Déterminés, whose mission is to develop entrepreneurship in working-class neighborhoods and rural areas.

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Women Founders Unite Holiday Party

SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted the Women Founders Unite Holiday Party. Women Founders Unite is on a mission to empower founders, business owners, and investors in the startup ecosystem globally and build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that supports every woman in their journey to building and scaling their startup and company.

Women of Color Talk Tech in Newtown Square

Sallie Jian, Head of SAP.iO Foundry New York hosted a special conversation with movers and shakers in the corporate realm, the non-profit sector and venture capital entrepreneurial space of the tech industry. Guest speakers included April Walker (Microsoft), Regina Gwynn (BWTT) and Jumoke Dada (HUE), who discussed how their experiences have shaped their careers.

Technovation 2020

SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted Technovation for their Bay Area Technovation Challenge 2020 Launch. Every year, Technovation invites teams of young people from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through technology. SAP.iO's alumni Charu Sharma, Min Chen, and Jo Riley shared their stories and how they overcame some of the challenges women entrepreneurs face.

Women in Tech Summit at Austin Startup Week

Vanessa Liu, SAP.iO Foundries North America, gave the keynote address to kick off the Women in Tech Summit at Capital Factory for Austin Startup Week, one of the largest technology, innovation, and business events in Austin where SAP served as the title sponsor. The Women in Tech summit was a day full of programming to help inspire, engage and elevate female entrepreneurs and tech professionals.

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The Equity Gap: How Women are Left Out of the Power Club

Most people know that in the U.S. women are making 80 cents to every dollar a man makes in pay. But most people are unaware of an even larger and insidious gap—the equity gap. This figure far surpasses pay disparity.

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HBCU National BrainTrust

Vanessa Liu, VP of SAP.iO Foundries North America, joined an industry panel with leaders powering Black innovation through corporate venture capital efforts in this year’s HBCU Braintrust. Powerful partnerships with SAP, T-Mobile, IBM, Intel, and Amazon all investing in women, URM businesses, and academic programs help pave the way in making a difference in how these groups are empowered and funded.

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Enpact Female Tech

Businesses in Africa

SAP.iO Foundry Berlin and GIZ- funded program Female Tech Businesses in Africa (FEBA) met to exchange views with 9 leaders of women networks, multipliers and stakeholders from Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. Providing engineering skills to women, setting up women focused accelerators, helping women to get in tech boards were only some of the topic we could address.

Enpact Female Tech Businesses in Africa

Supporting

Women’s Healthcare

In partnership with HITLAB, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and BayerG4A, SAP.iO Foundry New York is proud to support the HITLAB World Cup Challenge 2019 which focuses on emerging technology applications and systems that improve medical care and the provision of healthcare among women worldwide.

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Women in Tech

Festival

As Silver Sponsor of the Women in Tech Festival, 5th Anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, SAP.iO is supporting and honoring women in business & leadership 2019.

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Unity + Inclusion

Summit

SAP.iO partnered with 500 Startups to run the 2019 Unity + Inclusion Summit in Miami for over 200 founders, investors and companies.

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Inclusion at

SXSW

SAP.iO led the conversation about inclusive entrepreneurship at SAP's SDG Media Zone at SXSW.

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Girls

Talk

Christine Tao, Co-Founder & CEO of Sounding Board, SAP.iO Foundry SFC and Shuchi Rana, Head of SAP.iO Foundry SF shared the stage at Girl Talks, a forum for women to share & learn from one another's experiences hosted on behalf of the United Nations Foundation and Girl Up.

Culture Shifting

Weekends

SAP.iO hosts 300+ black business leaders who set sights on increasing racial diversity in tech.

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Becoming

Sheroes

SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted Sairee Chahal, the Founder and CEO of Sheroes who shared her wisdom about lessons learned as an entrepreneur.

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Latino

Startup Alliance

Exploring how we can shape entrepreneurial participation by and funding available to Latino entrepreneurs.

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