Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early stage companies with significant ideas that can lead to transformational companies.
As part of the Viola Group, we lead an independent investment strategy with a dedicated team and investors, while also offering our portfolio companies the added value of being part of a multi-strategy investment group with $2.8B AUM.
$1B AUM across 5 funds:
| Fund I | $171M | |
| Fund II | $202M | |
| Fund III | $235M | |
| Fund IV | $194M | |
| Fund V | $223M |
Founded in 2000, we are the only Israel-based VC fund with six investing partners solely dedicated to early-stage tech investments. This allows for unique depth and diversification that spans across a wide range of backgrounds and verticals.
We invest across a number of key market segments including Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, FinTech, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and Consumer Services.
Our mission is to partner with Israeli tech startups from inception, even as early as a PowerPoint deck. Typically we invest as the first institutional money with flexibility around seed, A, B rounds -$2m-$10m.
With a portfolio of over 90 companies, Viola Ventures has backed a substantial share of Israel’s exits to date, including Actimize, RedBend, DesignArt, CopperGate, Exelate and ECI.
11 Nov 2019
I recently returned from the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, the industry gathering that attracts the global fintech community - enterprises, startups, financial institutions, and investors alike. During the three days of content, discussions and meetings, one couldn’t help but notice that fintech is now “eating the world” – financial services are not only…
7 Nov 2019
Last week we announced our latest investment – a $6M round in a women’s fashion retail chain called Ruti. Founded by Ruti Zisser and Sharon Segev, the company has been operating to date without funding, building a well-run operation with 8 stores across the US and nice growth in sales. The basics of this investment…
11 Sep 2019
Since meeting with Syte, I’ve been walking around the Viola offices taking pictures of my coworkers in their hip and snazzy outfits. Within seconds, I found my self browsing online finding the exact same dresses or jeans. The convenience, speed and accuracy of the results were game changing. Which is why I was so happy…
12 Apr 2019
This is definitely one of the most emotional post I have written in a long time! Yesterday, SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) announced that it will acquire Samanage for $350M in cash. The deal is expected to close in the next 30 days. It has been one of the most exciting 6.5 years working with Samanage Founder…
7 Apr 2019
We recently hosted a Viola CTO Forum session for our portfolio company CTOs and VPs R&D, about the challenges of recruiting developers to hi-tech companies in Israel, with a focus on outsourcing and distributed development. Leading up to the session, we ran a survey on the topic among the attendees, which generated some interesting insights…
27 Mar 2019
Despite a population of only 8 Million people, Israel has a whopping 500+ startups specializing in retail tech, so it’s no wonder that in recent years, multinationals such as Nike, Alibaba, and Walmart have shown a growing interest in Israeli retail tech solutions. In 2018, 32 Israeli retail tech startups raised a total of $428M…
See more news
