About Us

SAP Ventures partners with outstanding entrepreneurs worldwide to build industry-leading businesses.  We seek innovative, disruptive and proven companies and help fuel their growth by adding our expertise, relationships, geographic reach and capital.

Over the last 15 years, we have supported more than a hundred companies on 5 continents.  We are currently investing out of a 2011 vintage $353M Fund.

We are an independent VC fund affiliated with SAP AG, the leading global enterprise software company, and leverage our relationship with SAP AG and its ecosystem for the benefit of our portfolio companies.  Our goal is to generate superior financial returns, and our corporate partner also benefits from the exposure to innovative and disruptive companies and trends.

Investment Strategy

SAP Ventures' strategy is to invest in growth stage information technology companies. We define growth stage companies as those that have a proven product and business model, and have started scaling their revenue. Typically, we invest $3 to $12M initially and can invest significantly larger amounts over the life of a company. We prefer to take an active role, take board seats and lead our investments, but also participate in larger syndicates of investors.

We invest in technology businesses that serve enterprises as customers or have enterprises as go-to market partners. We are also excited about companies which service consumers in their professional lives.

Global

We are looking to partner with the best companies anywhere in the world.  We are particularly keen on companies in the US, Europe, India, Brazil and China. While most of the core investment team is in the US and Europe, we leverage the worldwide presence of our corporate partner, SAP AG, for opportunity sourcing, diligence and value add after the investment process.

Value Add

We recognize that outstanding entrepreneurs have a significant number of options in regards to how they finance their businesses and seek to add value with our expertise, relationships and geographic reach in addition to our capital.  Our corporate partner, SAP AG, and its eco-system significantly differentiate our ability to help businesses grow.