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SAP ramps up venture capital efforts

IDG News Service – SAP’s venture capital arm has raised US$ 1 billion over the past year as the company tries to land stakes in hot startup companies,
both to generate profit down the road and to align itself with the industry’s newest technologies.

In total, SAP now has $ 1.4 billion under management in its various venture funds, according to Wednesday’s announcement. As
part of SAP Ventures’ expansion, the organization is also creating a new 10-member business development team, SAP said.

SAP is expecting to have a total of 13 exits for its portfolio companies this year, said Nino Marakovic, CEO of SAP Ventures,
in an interview. Five of the companies, including Marin Software and Violin Memory, have gone public, with another seven acquired
by other vendors. One of the most significant in the latter group is marketing software ExactTarget, which SAP rival Salesforce.com
bought for $ 2.5 billion.

There’s a reason for SAP’s installed base, as opposed to SAP shareholders, to care about what the Ventures group is doing,
Marakovic said.

“We’re kind of a good pipeline into the things that are to come,” he said. “We want to show customers SAP is forward-thinking.”

In addition, SAP’s involvement could give customers more confidence in working with the very smallest startups in the portfolio,
which may have only a handful of initial customers, he said.

SAP has made efforts, including a special venture fund, to get startups interested in its HANA in-memory database platform,
in hopes of quickly developing an ecosystem of partners and applications for HANA.

Overall, SAP looks to invest in mostly enterprise-themed startups, but about 20 percent of its portfolio concerns more consumer-oriented
companies, he said. It is particularly interested in companies that span both markets and reflect the consumerization-of-IT
trend, according to Marakovic.

It’s not unusual for tech companies to have venture capital arms. Intel runs one of the better-known ones, as does IBM.

Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris’ email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com

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More bad news for McAuliffe car company as GreenTech China venture stalls

HAPPIER DAYS: Terry McAuliffe and his partners unveiled big plans for a Chinese car factory in August 2011. Today, construction has stopped.

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau

ALEXANDRIA – Terry McAuliffe — slammed by Republicans for touting a Chinese car plant — suffered a reversal when construction of the Inner Mongolia facility reportedly was halted.

As chairman of GreenTech Automotive, McAuliffe announced a joint venture to produce and sell vehicles in China two years ago. Watchdog.org posted video of McAuliffe showing off the dusty site in Ordos.

But the sprawling project stalled when Chinese government funding dried up, according to recent news reports. Construction is said to be on an “indefinite hold.”

As in the United States, GreenTech’s China venture leaned on government incentives.

Marianne McInerney, GreenTech’s vice president for sales and marketing, told Factcheck.org the company was awaiting a decision on whether promised government financial assistance will be restarted.

“Unfortunately, the city of Ordos experienced a significant economic downturn and the project was placed on hold,” GreenTech told Factcheck. “As soon as the (Ordos) city government provides the agreed upon incentive, work would restart.”

GreenTech has said the plant would assemble cars largely from “core components” made in the United States. The company said exporting complete U.S.-made vehicles to China is “economically infeasible” due to China’s high tariffs.

Whether the Ordos project succeeds, McAuliffe’s political opponents say he’s the loser.

“Only his company’s failures could halt Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to build a plant in China — taking jobs he promised Virginians overseas,” Tim Miller, executive director of the conservative America Rising PAC, told Watchdog.

GreenTech abruptly announced in April that McAuliffe had resigned as company chairman in December 2012 in order to make his second run for governor. He remains a major shareholder in the company, which has filed an $ 85 million libel lawsuit against Watchdog.

Kenric Ward is chief of Watchdog’s Virginia Bureau. Contact him at kenric@watchdogvirginia.org or at (571) 319-9824. @Kenricward

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