Nova Intelligence is an agentic AI platform built specifically for SAP, the enterprise software that touches the back office of most Fortune 500 companies. The product analyzes, modernizes, and generates the custom code that runs payroll, supply chain, and finance workflows, with current customers using it to redesign business processes, resolve production issues, and migrate aging ABAP estates onto S/4HANA. The launch matters now because SAP has set a mandatory migration deadline for customers to move from legacy systems to its modern S/4HANA platform, recently pushed from 2027 to 2030 , putting thousands of large enterprises on a clock to rewrite decades of proprietary code.
The company is announcing $40M in total funding, anchored by a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry, with existing investors Accel, Conviction, and SAP.io, SAP's venture arm, also participating . CEO Emma Qian previously worked as a research engineer at Google DeepMind and Meta AI, and co-founded Nova alongside repeat operator Sam Yang and Professor Alexander Zeier, co-inventor of SAP HANA and former CTO of Accenture's SAP Business Group . Justin Kershaw, formerly CIO of Cargill, joined as chief customer officer , giving the team direct experience operating SAP at one of its largest customers.
Early traction supports the productivity claim in the launch. A case study with Kyndryl showed Nova's system led to a 75% reduction in manual effort and a 50% cost reduction in modernizing a company's SAP platform , and Festo, one of the first 30 SAP customers in the world and running the system since the 1970s, estimated they can work about five times faster . Nova is hiring across engineering, go-to-market, and operations, and Qian has said the long-term plan is to extend the platform beyond SAP into the other systems where enterprise business processes actually live.
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Priya RaghavanMay 5, 2026
SAP's venture arm in the round AND sap.io as the URL? Vertical lock-in achieved before the Series A even closes. Smart distribution play.
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Ingrid HaalandMay 5, 2026
Before I tweet 'interesting' I need to know what gross retention looks like on these SAP seats after year one. Implementation revenue and ARR are not the same animal.
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Tomasz K.May 5, 2026
Tweet copy is doing a lot of work cramming Series A and Seed into one breath. Felt like reading a press release that ran out of paragraph breaks.
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deepakMay 5, 2026
Triple the capacity of an SAP team is a bold claim when half of SAP work is waiting for someone in finance to approve a transport request.
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Fernando OrtizMay 5, 2026
Every agent demo on enterprise software looks great until someone clicks the third dropdown. Would love to see an unedited screen recording instead of the cut to a smiling SAP user.
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Yusuf AdelekeMay 5, 2026
Cool, but does the agent expose webhooks when it kicks off an SAP workflow, or am I polling like it's a cron job from 2014?
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Marisol G.May 5, 2026
Anyone touching SAP data is going to get the data residency questionnaire from hell. Hope the GDPR and schedule of subprocessors page is already drafted.
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Kenji WatanabeMay 5, 2026
We had an internal tool at my old job that did agentic workflow stuff on enterprise systems back in 2019. Killed in a reorg, naturally. Curious how this handles the long-tail custom ABAP nonsense.
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lotteMay 5, 2026
3 weeks out from my own launch and watching this thread for tweet structure tips. The pinned video doing the heavy lifting is the real lesson here.
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Nova Intelligence is an agentic AI platform built specifically for SAP, the enterprise software that touches the back office of most Fortune 500 companies. The product analyzes, modernizes, and generates the custom code that runs payroll, supply chain, and finance workflows, with current customers using it to redesign business processes, resolve production issues, and migrate aging ABAP estates onto S/4HANA. The launch matters now because SAP has set a mandatory migration deadline for customers to move from legacy systems to its modern S/4HANA platform, recently pushed from 2027 to 2030 , putting thousands of large enterprises on a clock to rewrite decades of proprietary code. The company is announcing $40M in total funding, anchored by a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry, with existing investors Accel, Conviction, and SAP.io, SAP's venture arm, also participating . CEO Emma Qian previously worked as a research engineer at Google DeepMind and Meta AI, and co-founded Nova alongside repeat operator Sam Yang and Professor Alexander Zeier, co-inventor of SAP HANA and former CTO of Accenture's SAP Business Group . Justin Kershaw, formerly CIO of Cargill, joined as chief customer officer , giving the team direct experience operating SAP at one of its largest customers. Early traction supports the productivity claim in the launch. A case study with Kyndryl showed Nova's system led to a 75% reduction in manual effort and a 50% cost reduction in modernizing a company's SAP platform , and Festo, one of the first 30 SAP customers in the world and running the system since the 1970s, estimated they can work about five times faster . Nova is hiring across engineering, go-to-market, and operations, and Qian has said the long-term plan is to extend the platform beyond SAP into the other systems where enterprise business processes actually live.
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SAP's venture arm in the round AND sap.io as the URL? Vertical lock-in achieved before the Series A even closes. Smart distribution play.
Before I tweet 'interesting' I need to know what gross retention looks like on these SAP seats after year one. Implementation revenue and ARR are not the same animal.
Tweet copy is doing a lot of work cramming Series A and Seed into one breath. Felt like reading a press release that ran out of paragraph breaks.
Triple the capacity of an SAP team is a bold claim when half of SAP work is waiting for someone in finance to approve a transport request.
Every agent demo on enterprise software looks great until someone clicks the third dropdown. Would love to see an unedited screen recording instead of the cut to a smiling SAP user.
Cool, but does the agent expose webhooks when it kicks off an SAP workflow, or am I polling like it's a cron job from 2014?
Anyone touching SAP data is going to get the data residency questionnaire from hell. Hope the GDPR and schedule of subprocessors page is already drafted.
We had an internal tool at my old job that did agentic workflow stuff on enterprise systems back in 2019. Killed in a reorg, naturally. Curious how this handles the long-tail custom ABAP nonsense.
3 weeks out from my own launch and watching this thread for tweet structure tips. The pinned video doing the heavy lifting is the real lesson here.