Viola Ventures ( he, ויולה ונצ'רס), (formerly Carmel Ventures ( he, כרמל ונצ'רס)), established in 2000, is an Israeli
venture capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...
fund with over $1.3 billion under management.
History
Viola Ventures is focused on early stage companies in the fields of enterprise infrastructure and applications, frontier and deep technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), software,
software as a service
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software.
SaaS is con ...
,
financial technology
Fintech, a portmanteau of "financial technology", refers to firms using new technology to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and big data are r ...
,
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
, media, communications,
semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...
s, and consumer electronics.
Viola Ventures is a member of the
Viola Group, a private equity investment group with over $2.8B under management, focused on technology-based investment opportunities in Israel.
Shlomo Dovrat
Shlomo Dovrat is an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur and Co-Founder and General Partner at Viola Ventures, a top-tier Israeli venture capital firm, with over $4.5B under management. He spearheaded the recovery of ECI Telecom and in January 2005, s ...
was a founder.
Companies
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Adapteva
Zero ASIC Corporation, formerly Adapteva, Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on low power many core microprocessor design. The company was the second company to announce a design with 1,000 specialized processing cores on a single ...
*Cellwize
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Clarizen
Clarizen, Inc. is a project management software and collaborative work management company.
Clarizen uses a software as a service business model. Clarizen's features include attaching CAD drawings to a project, moving between the project view a ...
*Cloudyn
*codefresh
*CrediFi
*CoolaData
*Deep
*Dynamic Yield
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*EverCompliant
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Guesty
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IronSource
ironSource Ltd. is an Israeli software company that focuses on developing technologies for app monetization and distribution, with its core products focused on the app economy.
Among others, ironSource was chosen as one of the '20 hottest star ...
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Kampyle (software)
Kampyle is a software and website feedback analytics company founded in 2007 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel. Kampyle's feedback service is used to improve a company's ability to understand their website users and customer analytics. Kampyle was ...
*LiveU
*Lightricks
*LuckyFish
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MarketInvoice
*MultiPhy
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MyThings
*NICE Actimize
*nsknox
*Optimal Plus
*Origami logic
*Pagaya
*ParallelM
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Puls (company)
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Outbrain
Outbrain is a web recommendation platform founded in 2006 by Co-Founder and Co-CEO Yaron Galai and Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Ori Lahav. The company is headquartered in New York City. The company generates revenue f ...
*Pagaya
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Payoneer
Payoneer Global Inc. is an American financial services company that provides online money transfer, digital payment services and provides customers with working capital.
History
Payoneer was founded in 2005 with $2 million in seed funding from ...
*Perfecto Mobile
*Personetics
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Playbuzz
*Protean
*RealMatch
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Redis Labs
Redis Ltd. (originally Redis Labs, Garantia Data) is a private computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Redis is the sponsor of the open-source in-memory NoSQL database of the same name and the provider of Redis Enter ...
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Reduxio
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Samanage
*Seebo
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SimilarWeb
*Splacer
*SundaySky
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Tapingo
*Tonara
*TradAir
*VayaVision
*Worthy
Exits
See also
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Economy of Israel
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Startup Nation
References
External links
Viola Ventures HomepageViola Group Homepage
{{Venture capital firms
Venture capital firms of Israel
Privately held companies of Israel
Investment companies of Israel