Emmanuel Cassimatis is a France-based vice-president and head of SAP.iO Fund for Europe. The fund is Germany-based technology company SAP’s early-stage co-investment fund focusing on seed and series A rounds, investing chiefly in software business-to-business companies that help SAP customers receive value from data and new technologies.
Among Cassimatis’s main responsibilities are identifying potential investments and strengthening relationships with the startup ecosystem, negotiating and structuring investments with startups and other investors, and supporting post-investment connections to SAP for optimal sales acceleration and potential application programming interface data connections.
Ram Jambunathan, senior vice-president and managing director of SAP.iO, said: “Before joining SAP.iO, Emmanuel was part of SAP’s private equity team, where he built deep relationships with private equity firms, banks and VC firms. Before that, he was a VC at France-based VC firm 360 Capital, as well as a serial entrepreneur.”
Apart from his SAP.iO endeavours, Cassimatis runs Paper for All, a Burkina Faso-based educational non-profit he founded in 2006, which provides academic resources such as stationery to three primary schools in the country’s capital Ouagadougou.
Cassimatis also co-founded sustainable energy provider Egg-Energy and business-to-consumer and business-to-business social networks and communities platform provider Eglued, both of which have been sold.
Coming from an investment and entrepreneurial background, he combines three talents – investment scouting and deal structuring, entrepreneurship support, and exposure to innovation, particularly in business-to-business software.
