# SAP.iO

> SAP.iO is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 156 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 156
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 69%
- Fund size: $35M
- Last fund: Mar 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/13298298
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sap_io
- Website: https://sap.io
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/SAP.iOFoundry

SAP.iO is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. SAP.iO is SAP’s strategic business unit to incubate, accelerate and scale startup innovation and explore new business models for SAP. Since 2017, SAP.iO has helped 300+ external startups and internal ventures both start and scale their businesses while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 56 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 37 | 24% |
| SaaS | 30 | 19% |
| Machine Learning | 21 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 12% |

176 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 93 | 60% |
| Series A | 14 | 9% |
| Seed | 11 | 7% |
| Series B | 9 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 41 | 26% |
| France | 12 | 8% |
| Germany | 11 | 7% |
| Japan | 10 | 6% |
| Israel | 10 | 6% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emmanuel Cassimatis | Partner, Emea Investments | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmanuel-cassimatis |
| Ram Jambunathan | Managing Director & Founder | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ram-jambunathan |
| Preetha Parthasarathy | Partner | 29 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/preetha-parthasarathy |
| Sallie Jian | Head of SAP.iO NY | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sallie-jian |
| Yoni Rubin | Business Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoni-rubin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nova Intelligence | Nova Intelligence is the leading agentic AI platform for SAP teams. Our AI agents help enterprises document and understand custom code, reduce complexity by leveraging SAP standard whenever possible, and modernize and build new applications—all with Clean Core compliant, upgrade-safe principles. SAP teams using Nova double their productivity. Theteam behind Nova includes the co-inventor of SAP HANA, an AI researcher from Google DeepMind, and the former CIO of Cargill. The company is backed by SAP's investment arm and top Silicon Valley VCs. | $31.5M | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Not Diamond | Not Diamond focuses on optimizing the use of various AI models based on their strengths and capabilities. |  | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $29.9M |  | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Nova Intelligence | Nova Intelligence is the leading agentic AI platform for SAP teams. Our AI agents help enterprises document and understand custom code, reduce complexity by leveraging SAP standard whenever possible, and modernize and build new applications—all with Clean Core compliant, upgrade-safe principles. SAP teams using Nova double their productivity. Theteam behind Nova includes the co-inventor of SAP HANA, an AI researcher from Google DeepMind, and the former CIO of Cargill. The company is backed by SAP's investment arm and top Silicon Valley VCs. | $8.5M | Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Deepgram | Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $47M | Series B | Nov 26, 2022 |  |
| Runa | Runa is rewriting the rules of payouts and building what comes next. Weʼre the global fintech powering seamless value exchange, giving businesses the tools to grow faster, reach further, and turn every payout into something more. With a single API, Runa unlocks instant access to over 5 billion consumers in 190 countries. Cards, wallets, bankaccounts, digital rewards—you name the funds flow fast, friction-free, and fully embedded into any experience. No borders. No friction. Just possibilities unlocked. Based in London and New York with a global team at the helm, Runa is backed by investors like Element Ventures, CommerzVentures, Clocktower Ventures, Volution Capital, 13Books Capital, and SAP.Letʼs go further—runa.io | $30.6M | Series B | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $40M | Series C | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Manta | Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity. | $35M | Series B | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Manta | Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity. | $35M | Series B | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Jina AI | Jina AI is a neural search company that provides cloud-native neural search solutions powered by AI and deep learning. It provides an open-source neural search ecosystem for businesses and developers, enabling everyone to search for information in all kinds of data with high availability and scalability. | $30M | Series A | Nov 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 156 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SAP.iO invest in?

SAP.iO invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 156 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact SAP.iO?

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### Who are the partners at SAP.iO?

The team at SAP.iO includes Emmanuel Cassimatis (Partner, Emea Investments), Ram Jambunathan (Managing Director & Founder) and Preetha Parthasarathy (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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