KANGE KANEENE
Kange is the Vice President of SAP.iO Foundries North America, SAP’s startup accelerator. She has spent her career in enterprise software but for the last 10 years has focused on expanding SAP's ecosystem in the space via investments in startups, partnerships, acquisitions and joint go-to-market.
She has a passion for diversity and creating equally distributed access to opportunity. She is an angel investor with Pipeline Angels group, a group of female and non-binary investors who invest in female and non-binary founders. She is a scout for GoingVC Partners, a VC syndicate and she is on the selection committee and a mentor for entrepreneurs as a volunteer for Defy Ventures, a non-profit organization that invests in founders who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
Finally, Kange is on the board of KIPP NYC. KIPP NYC is a network of public charter schools with high minority and low-income populations that matriculate to college at more than double the rate of low-income students nationally and complete college at five times the rate of their peers.
Kange has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.