# Emma Qian

> Emma Qian is the co-founder and CEO of Nova Intelligence, a San Francisco startup building an agentic AI platform that analyzes, modernizes, and generates custom code for SAP systems. A former research engineer at Google DeepMind and software engineer at Meta AI, Caltech-trained Qian left frontier AI research to attack one of enterprise software's least glamorous and most expensive problems: the migration of decades of custom SAP code to S/4HANA. Nova has raised over $40 million, including a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry with backing from Accel, Conviction, and SAP.io, and counts customers like Festo who report working roughly five times faster. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Nova Intelligence
- **Organizations:** Nova Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Multi
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Exchange Student, Computer Science, University of Cambridge
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of Nova Intelligence, an agentic AI platform for SAP, Raised over $40M total, including a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree

## Career timeline

- **—** — Software Engineer at Facebook AI (now Meta AI)
- **—** — Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
- **—** — Co-founded Multi, a foundation model and model orchestration platform (raised $10M)
- **2024** — Co-founded Nova Intelligence with Sam Yang and Prof. Alexander Zeier
- **2026-05** — Nova Intelligence raised a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry; total funding over $40M
- **2026** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of Nova Intelligence, an agentic AI platform for SAP
- Raised over $40M total, including a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry
- Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree
- First Place Winner at Outside Hacks VI
- First Place Worldwide at the Data Open
- Recruited SAP HANA co-inventor Prof. Alexander Zeier as co-founder
- Previously co-founded Multi, which raised $10M

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Nova Intelligence raised a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, with Accel, Conviction, and SAP.io participating, bringing total funding over $40M.
- **2026** — Emma Qian named to Forbes 30 Under 30.

## Links

- Website: https://novaintelligence.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqian99

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Last updated: 2026-06-24