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SAP.iO Foundry Paris Launches New Startup Program on Consumer Engagement

September 21, 2023 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today launched its new startup program focused on the future of consumer engagement at SAP.iO Foundry Paris. 15 startups have been selected to join the program.

In today’s highly competitive market, retailers and consumer product companies face new challenges in the way goods are marketed, purchased, fulfilled and delivered. However, advancements in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence present novel prospects to transform the consumer and shopper experiences.

The six-month program is primarily B2C (business-to-consumer)-oriented and aims to provide all necessary tools and solutions to significantly enhance the end customers’ experience, with a particular emphasis on shopping. The selected startups offer solutions that cover the entire supply chain, from selecting the right product to a timely delivery.

The SAP.iO program will support 15 startups, which were chosen based on several criteria, including their size and relative experience, the technical viability of their solutions, their uniqueness compared to existing technologies at SAP, and their commercial value.

The following startups are participating in the SAP.iO Foundry Paris cohort:

  1. Anaphora designs and creates platforms to help international brands elevate and control their brand experiences across all digital touchpoints.
  2. Booxi is an appointment booking software that enhances customer satisfaction, increases conversions and sales by facilitating seamless customer journeys from the website to the store.
  3. With ChatLabs, brands can create a unique experience for each customer by combining content, products, and calls to action in highly personalized journeys, which are fully automated and powered by AI.
  4. Digitoo is an AI-powered bookkeeping solution designed to tackle the industry-wide problems of understaffing, the high costs and complexity of handling paper documents and difficulty implementing automation systems.
  5. Find & Order has been working with logistics and distribution leaders for three years to challenge their operations and information systems.
  6. Frontnow is a GenAI-powered shopping assistant that helps online retailers offer a seamless in-store-like experience across channels with easy low-code implementation.
  7. Logicbroker connects all participants in an organization’s supply chain through an integrated suite, regardless of their business model.
  8. Measmerize offers a size recommendation solution for fashion that helps consumers know not only what size to buy, but also how it fits on their body, requiring minimal integration from retailers.
  9. Notify uses AI to power an innovative CRM that reduces marketing pressure, personalizes and legitimizes the relationship, and optimizes the CRM’s carbon footprint.
  10. Particular Audience’s solutions include bundled and automated offerings on price alignment policy, sponsored products, transformer-based vector search, visual search, recommendations, price information, and dynamic pricing.
  11. Potions develops and deploys the first cookieless path personalization platform, delivering unique experiences for customer website visitors.
  12. Q°emotion is a semantic and emotional solution that automatically analyzes customer reviews to detect and eliminate customer journey irritants.
  13. Uncrowd is an experience analytics platform that helps companies build a customer journey map by combining customer experience observation, quantitative measures, and comparative results.
  14. Unea enables retailers and brands to collaborate seamlessly by presenting products and reserving real-time placements.
  15. YDISTRI specializes in managing unsold retail inventory, increasing efficiency and profitability while enhancing customer loyalty, sustainability, and supply chain resilience.

About SAP.iO
SAP.iO curates a relevant and diverse startup ecosystem that extends the value of SAP solutions and meets the continuously evolving needs of our customers. Our programs provide dedicated support to the most promising startups as they launch and scale relationships with SAP and our global network of customers, partners, and employees. Since 2017, we have connected thousands of SAP customers with innovative enterprise software startups, helping them find solutions to their unique needs. For more information, visit http://sap.io/.

In Announcements, New York, Featured, Consumer Industries, Sustainability

SAP.iO Foundry New York Launches Sustainability in Retail and Consumer Industries Program

October 19, 2021 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) welcomes a new cohort for its startup program focused on sustainability in retail and consumer industries at SAP.iO Foundry New York. Seven startups were selected to join the program by a jury of SAP experts, partners and customers among hundreds of startups.

The startups are using next generation technologies to drive sustainability across the value chain in areas such as reusable packaging, responsible and ethical supply chain as well as circular economy. Over the next 16 weeks, the startups will have access to curated mentors, exposure to SAP® technology and application programming interfaces (APIs), and opportunities to collaborate with SAP customers around the world.

The following startups are participating in the SAP.iO Foundry New York sustainability in retail and consumer industries program:

  • Algramo offers a circular platform that encourages consumers to buy in a more convenient, affordable way with zero waste and connects people, brands and retailers to change consumption habits.
  • Ecocart calculates the carbon emissions of business activities, then programmatically offsets those emissions by funding impactful certified carbon offset projects like planting trees or building windfarms.
  • Everledger leverages blockchain and internet of things technology to offer transparency into supply chains for clarity on quality, origin, sustainability footprint and compliance standards.
  • EVRYTHNG helps customers run their business differently with real time data intelligence from each of their products, end-to-end from factory to consumer and beyond.
  • Inspectorio provides a dynamic and risk-assessment based quality compliance program for digitization, automation, transparency and traceability.
  • LimeLoop is a platform for sustainable shipping including reusable packaging, real time tracking, and predictive analytics.
  • Specright delivers a purpose-built platform for specification management that changes how brands, suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers manage data and collaborate to bring products to market.

About SAP.iO
SAP.iO delivers new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. SAP.iO brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, SAP.iO has helped 330+ external startups and internal ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation. For more information, visit https://sap.io/.