SAP Ventures is running the $155m fund, which will reportedly also focus the traditionally late stage corporate venturing firm on early stage deals.
SAP Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Germany-based technology company SAP led by Nino Marakovic (pictured), is reportedly set to invest more in early stage deals, after it unveiled a $155m fund to invest in start-ups developing real-time applications which can be used on its HANA platform, a database designed to operate in real-time.
The SAP HANA Real-Time Fund was unveiled on Tuesday as part of a wider strategy to promote SAP’s database. Marakovic said SAP was the sole limited…
