Viola Ventures is committed to investing in startups and empowering them to become global category leaders. With over $1B managed across five funds, Viola Ventures is led by a team of 6 investment partners dedicated solely to early-stage tech investments (seed, A and B).
With a 20-year legacy in Israel’s vibrant technology ecosystem, Viola Ventures is known for repeatedly backing global tech companies and unicorns, such as ironSource, Payoneer, Lightricks, Redis Labs, and Outbrain. The fund holds a substantial share of Israel’s significant exits, including Actimize, RedBend, ECI, Samanage, Perfecto, Tapingo, and more.
Viola Ventures invests in exceptional teams with a strong focus on AI technologies looking to transform traditional markets, the semiconductors and deeptech industries, and consumer facing products.
$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.
20 Feb 2020
2019 was an extremely important year for the semi industry in Israel. It started off with the purchase of Mellanox by NVIDIA for $6.8 billion in March and continued with the purchase of Habana Labs by Intel for $2 billion in December. These two deals alone constituted nearly 35% of the total exits in Israel…
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…
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