About Viola Ventures
Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. It is primarily based out of Herzliya, Israel. As of Oct 2023, Viola Ventures has invested in 43 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in Israel based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Retail. Most recently it led the $15M Seed round of PhaseV along with . This round also saw participation from LionBird.
Overall, Viola Ventures portfolio has seen 1 unicorn, 2 IPOs and 22 acquisitions including key companies like Payoneer, VMware and Skybox. A lot of funds co-invest with Viola Ventures, with names like Viola Credit sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Viola Ventures has team of 9 people including 6 partners.
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Viola Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Viola Ventures has invested in 43 companies over the last 25 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in PhaseV and most recent follow-on round was in Verbit.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st听搁辞耻苍诲 | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2019 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Viola Ventures' Investments by Stage
Viola Ventures is primarily an Early Stage Investor investor majorly investing in Series A (19) rounds where average round size is $159M, Series B (11) rounds where average round size is $134M and Seed (4) rounds where average round size is $27.9M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 19 |
Series B | 11 |
Seed | 4 |
Conventional Debt | 1 |
Series C | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Viola Ventures' Investments by Sector
Viola Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, FinTech and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 41 Tech companies, 33 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 27 Software companies and at least 17 companies focusing on Saas.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 24 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 10 |
Consumer | 8 |
FinTech | 6 |
High Tech | 6 |
Others | 35 |
Viola Ventures' Investments by Geography
Viola Ventures has made most investments in Israel (24), followed by United States where it has made 13 investments.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Israel | 24 |
United States | 13 |
Germany | 1 |
Portugal | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Viola Ventures' recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Viola Ventures:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 23, 2023 | Israel | Seed | $15M | LionBird [+1] | |
Jan 31, 2023 | Israel | Seed | $7.5M | [+3] | |
Nov 08, 2022 | Portugal | Series A | $8.2M | [+2] | |
Nov 17, 2020 | United States | Seed | $4M | [+1] | |
Jul 30, 2020 | Germany | Series B | $14.1M | [+4] |
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Here is a list of unicorns in Viola Ventures' portfolio:
秘密研究所 Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
73 | Provider of cloud and AI-based natural language processing platform to develop speech recognition applications | 2017 | New York City | Series E | okpcsqh |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Viola Ventures' Portfolio
Here are Viola Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Acquired companies in Viola Ventures' Portfolio
Here are Viola Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Team profile of Viola Ventures
Viola Ventures has a team of 9 members听including 6 Partners and 2 Principals听located in Israel. Viola Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Viola Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Tel Aviv | - | ||
Partner | Israel | - | ||
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | ||
Principal | - | - |
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Over the past 25 years, 197 investors have co-invested in Viola Ventures's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Viola Ventures:听Sequoia Capital, Viola Group and 37 others have invested in rounds before Viola Ventures. There are 3 companies where Sequoia Capital has invested before Viola Ventures and 2 companies where Viola Group has invested before Viola Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Viola Ventures:听50 investors entered a company along with Viola Ventures. These include investors like Viola Credit (4 companies).
- Invested after Viola Ventures:听A total of 108 investors have invested in Viola Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Viola Group (8 companies), Vintage Investment Partners (4 companies) and Samsung NEXT (3 companies).
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