We’re excited to announce the close of Viola Ventures’ two new funds, totalling $250M, to support the next generation of Israel’s early-stage startups.
The raise includes the first dry close of our flagship Viola Ventures 7 Early-Stage Investment Fund and Viola Conviction Fund I.

Viola’s Conviction Fund I raised approximately $100M to invest, through secondary transactions, in outlier portfolio companies. The fund has already been fully deployed. This vehicle allows our investors to double down on the most promising Viola portfolio companies.

The flagship fund, Viola Ventures 7, representing the majority of the capital raised, will focus on supporting the next generation of early-stage tech gamechangers (seed rounds, series A, and incubation processes).

Now is The Best Time to be an Early-Stage Entrepreneur

There has never been a more exciting moment to build new companies and bring innovation to new and existing categories. Our new fund will focus on these strategic core areas where we believe immense opportunities lie:

Vertical AI/Applied enterprise AI: Disrupting traditional industries with AI applications

AI Infrastructure & Quantum: Companies solving infrastructure driven by advancements in AI (next-gen compute, power and storage)

Cyber & Defense: where Israel has a strong track record, talent pool, and network in these spaces.

Fintech: Supporting the future of finance, a sector where Israel is already a proven leader (second globally in number of FinTech unicorns per capita).

Viola is the largest fintech investor in Israel with over 47 companies to date.

Enhanced Founder Support and Global Network, Purposely Built for Early-Stage

Viola Ventures is continuously strengthening its position as a strategic partner for early-stage entrepreneurs, where every early decision, move, or partner matters.

As such, we’re doubling down on three significant pillars – customer access, capital connections, and go-to-market support, shaped by over 25 years of relevant scale-up experience.

Furthermore, we’re launching Viola’s Leadership Circle, a network of top-tier global executives and entrepreneurs who invested in the new fund and serve as strategic advisors and board members to portfolio companies.

The Leadership Circle includes a prestigious group of tech and business icons, including:

Jim Whitehurst, former President of IBM, former CEO of Red Hat, and COO of Delta Airlines. Scott Galit, former CEO of Payoneer. Cris Conde, former CEO of SunGard. Eyal Waldman, founder and former CEO of Mellanox, acquired by NVIDIA. Tomer Bar-Zeev, co-founder and former CEO of IronSource, acquired by Unity. Yiftach Shoolman, Co-founder of Redis. Reuven (Ruby) Aronashvili, founder and CEO of CYE, and Lior Gerenstein, CTO of Via (Nasdaq: VIA).

The Viola Velocity value-add platform is an additional significant resource designed to support critical early-stage needs, including access offered to a curated network of over five hundred Fortune 500 CxOs, including companies such as Audi, Nice, Biogen and Ciena, who can serve as potential customers, design partners, and early champions.

Continued Commitment to Israel’s Early-Stage Visionaries

Despite a challenging couple of years for the region, the Israeli tech ecosystem continues to grow at a record pace with funding reaching $11.3B YTD and M&As breaking an all-time high.
We strongly believe Israel will be at the forefront of the exciting, AI-driven, new wave of transformative innovation, building bold, cutting-edge companies in areas that matter.

As we have for the past 25 years, we remain committed to backing the next generation of global technology Gamechangers.

If you’re building something new – we’d love to meet!