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.
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…
29 Jan 2019
When Co-founder and CEO of Verbit.ai, Tom Livne, came to see me for the first time in 2016, he pitched me on their new and advanced speech-to-text engine that he has built together with his two co-founders, Kobi Ben Zvi and Eric Shellef. While we were intrigued by the technology (since it outperformed any other…
12 Sep 2018
The Mobility market has undergone major technological disruption in recent years. Propelled by innovation, it is driven by the primary goal of reducing the cost of transportation (per mile per person/package) through the all-important trinity of Shared, Autonomous and Electric vehicles (SAEVs). A race is now underway to lead the fulfillment of this future mobility…
4 Sep 2018
Start-Up Nation Central’s (SNC) has published its inaugural Israel FinTech Report this week. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of the Israeli Fintech ecosystem and its importance in the global Fintech arena. It includes trends as well as an analysis of the performance and activity of Fintech companies in Israel. Viola is…
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