Pi Campus is proud to share that SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, acquired Askdata, a startup we funded in 2019. Askdata’s IP will become part of SAP® Business Technology Platform and contribute to a next-generation lightweight analytics experience for SAP Analytics Cloud solution customers and to line-of-business applications.
Askdata was born to democratize access to data by applying advanced AI to analytics data. Today, the most profitable businesses are data-driven, but only 5% of the companies’ workforce has access to internal data. By enabling everyone to run a database query using natural language as if they were using a search engine, Askdata empowers every employee to make data-driven decisions.
We invested in the company founded by Simone di Somma e Giuseppe Ancona in 2019, right after they pitched at Y Combinator’s demo day. Commenting on the acquisition, Pi Campus founder Marco Trombetti said: “Simone and the Askdata team did an extraordinary job. With this operation, we make awesome technology available to everybody once again. I want to thank SAP for their trust”.
“SAP is the ideal partner to scale our technology – said Askdata CEO Di Somma – It will help us reach thousands of companies globally and have a greater impact. I am excited also because our team will stay in Rome and keep working on applying advanced AI to data analytics: this is proof that the technology we develop in Italy is world-class.”