Viola Ventures (formerly Carmel 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 $200M
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.
6 Aug 2018
20 minutes into my first meeting with Limor Schweitzer, the founder of MOV.AI, I already knew this is going to be my next investment. I have been struggling with myself over the past few months about whether my past experience in enterprise software is still going to be relevant 10 years from now. For some…
17 May 2018
The second ever Israel Growth Summit (2018) took place in Tel Aviv in May, co-hosted once again by Viola and the Israel Growth Forum. Attendees included over 150 Founders, CEOs and senior executives from Israel’s top growth-stage companies, who shared their insights on a variety of challenges including strategy-building, go-to-market, global management, scaling R&D and…
25 Mar 2018
NOTE: This post was last updated on August 16, 2018 and is updated on a regular basis. FinTech has been an important focus for us here at Viola Ventures since the fund’s inception. The success of Israel’s FinTech industry is already widely recognized by leading global financial institutions and service providers, and the future is…
26 Feb 2018
Nailing product-market fit in any vertical is a challenge for many entrepreneurs. Doing so in fintech adds another level of complexity given the delicate balance between product functionality, user experience, regulatory environment (licensing, compliance, fraud) and above all, a strong trust element. To tackle this challenge, Viola held a fintech forum last week where we…
18 Feb 2018
One of the most discussed topics among SaaS companies is how salespeople should be compensated. To see where Israeli startups stand vis-à-vis the international benchmarks, we surveyed both portfolio and non-portfolio companies about their sales compensation policies. We believe that this survey can be used as a great “sanity check” tool for CEOs, CFOs and…
14 Jan 2018
Disclaimer: this post should not be interpreted or relied upon as legal advice. With the increasing speed of data collection and data monetization driving the evolution of business models, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short) will take effect May 25, 2018. It’s a regulation not to be casually dismissed, as the…
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