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  • EMPOWERING EARLY-STAGE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TO BECOME GLOBAL CATEGORY LEADERS

    Viola Ventures is committed to investing in early-stage startups and empowering them to become global category leaders. With over $1.3B under management, Viola Ventures is led by a team of 6 investment partners dedicated solely to early-stage tech investments.

    With a legacy of over 20 years in Israel’s vibrant technology ecosystem, Viola Ventures invested in over 100 companies to date and is known for repeatedly backing Israel’s category leaders, such as ironSource, Payoneer, Lightricks, Redis, Pagaya, immunai, and Verbit.

    The fund partners with exceptional teams looking to disrupt traditional markets, in verticals such as finTech, deeptech, Vertical AI, consumer, digital health and climate.

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    SIZE

    $1.3B AUM across 6 funds:

    Fund I   $171M
    Fund II   $202M
    Fund III   $235M
    Fund IV   $194M
    Fund V   $223M
    Fund VI   $260M

    INVESTMENT TEAM

    Founded in 2000, we are the only Israel-based VC fund with seven 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.

    INVESTMENT AREAS

    FinTech, Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Consumer, Healthcare, Fintech, Digital health, ClimaTech, Web3

    WE PARTNER EARLY

    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 -$500K-$10M.

    PORTFOLIO

    With a portfolio of over 90 companies, Viola Ventures has backed a substantial share of Israel’s exits to date, including Cellwize, Optimal+, Samanage and ironSource recently merged with Unity.

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    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Yael Alroy

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David
    Viola Fintech | Daniel Tsiddon

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat
    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi
    Viola Credit

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen
    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Yael Alroy

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat
    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi
    Viola Ventures | Yael Alroy

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen
    Viola Growth | Harel Beit-On

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    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

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    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

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    Viola Ventures | Yael Alroy

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David
    Viola Fintech | Tomer Michaeli

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi
    Viola Ventures | Yael Alroy

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

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    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir

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    PERFORCE

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi
    Viola Growth | Ayal Shiran

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    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir
    Viola Credit

    ACQUIRED BY: SolarWinds

    SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC (NYSE: SWI)

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

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    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir

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    FRANCISCO PARTNERS

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Uri Lampert

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    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    GRUBHUB

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

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    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir

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    FORTINET

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David

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    Viola Ventures | Zvika Orron

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

    ACQUIRED BY:

    INTUIT

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    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Daniel Cohen

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    Viola Ventures | Avi Zeevi

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    Viola Credit
    Viola Ventures | Shlomo Dovrat

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    Viola Ventures | Omry Ben David
    Viola Credit

    ACQUIRED BY:

    K1 INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

    FUNDED BY

    Viola Ventures | Ronen Nir
    Viola Credit

    ACQUIRED BY:

    MICROSOFT

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    Japanese Regulatory Disclosures

    Pursuant to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan, effective as of March 1, 2016, a person who has submitted a notification regarding Specially Permitted Businesses for Qualified Institutional Investors, etc. is required to make certain information available to the public. Viola Ventures 4 Ltd. and Viola Ventures 5 Ltd. submitted such notification, and its information can be obtained upon request to INFO@VIOLA.VC
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