Viola Ventures

Viola Ventures, formerly known as Carmel Ventures, is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and growth capital investments in Fintech sector. The firm seeks to invest in incubation, seed/start-up, A and B rounds, early stage, mid venture, late stage, and emerging growth stages in the companies. It prefers to invest in the information technology sector including software, data center infrastructure, communications, frontier & deep technologies (automotive, ar/vr, drones), robotics and consumer services, new enterprise infrastructure, infrastructure, Energy, semiconductors, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, agtech, retail, machine learning, hardware, industrial and general technology, identity and access management, consumer internet, Internet advertising, mobile and wireless, web mobile & media, mobile software, mobility, applications and services, cloud, cloud services, SaaS, consumer applications, digital media, financial services, cyber security, consumer electronics, e-commerce software, business to business, enterprise software, home entertainment software, data storage, electronic equipment and instruments, and electrical equipment. The firm seeks to invest in firms based in Israel or in Israel related companies. However, the firm can also invest outside Israel in Europe and US. It seeks to invest between $2 million and $10 million including smaller investments of $0.1 million and $1 million in seed rounds. The firm typically leads or co-leads investments and seeks to take a seat on the Board of directors of its portfolio companies while keeping a low ratio of companies per partner. Viola Ventures was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel. The firm is a subsidiary of Viola Ltd.