Viola Group

Viola Group is Israel's technology-focused investment group that operates a multi-strategy platform to support technology entrepreneurs from early stage to growth. Based in Herzliya and founded in 2000, the group manages over $3 billion in assets and oversees several specialized units, including Viola Ventures (early-stage venture capital), Viola Growth (growth capital), Viola Credit (private credit), Viola Partners (private investor fund), and Viola FinTech (cross-stage fintech investments). Viola Group primarily backs Israeli technology companies and related ventures, while also pursuing global opportunities. The firm provides more than capital by offering strategic guidance, board participation, and access to a broad international network to help portfolio companies scale in software, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, semiconductors, and other tech-enabled sectors. The approach emphasizes long-term value creation through investments across multiple stages and active portfolio support.

Yael Alroy

Principal

Itzik Avidor

Partner

Shlomo Dovrat

Co-Founder and General Partner

Ranit Etzion-Weiss

Analyst

S. Fitzgerald Haney

Partner and Head of Strategic Development

Past deals in Database

Volumez

Series A in 2024
Volumez is a provider of Data Infrastructure as a Service (DIaaS), offering a platform that integrates and orchestrates cloud resources to create customized data infrastructures suited to specific workload requirements. The platform is designed for data-intensive applications, ensuring performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency across any cloud environment. With its innovative architecture and controller-less design, Volumez simplifies the deployment of storage solutions and dynamically adjusts to the evolving needs of businesses. This results in a predictable and composable DIaaS that delivers high performance and ultra-low latency while maintaining enterprise-grade data resilience at optimized costs. The company’s services are accessible through major cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, facilitating easier management of both public and private cloud resources.

Foundational

Seed Round in 2024
Foundational is a data management platform that helps developers understand the lineage and downstream impact of code changes. Addressing data issues can be both expensive and needlessly intricate. Foundational's Code Intelligence Engine scrutinizes code alterations to identify issues, unveil concealed dependencies, and assess downstream ramifications well in advance of any interaction with live data. Foundational's code-based data lineage extends beyond the conventional coverage offered by standard warehouse and BI tools, encompassing a comprehensive analysis across various platforms such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, and more. This solution provides column-level lineage throughout the entire data stack. Notably, the process is fully automated, requiring zero code or configuration changes. The lineage information remains consistently up-to-date, seamlessly reflecting the latest code merged into the system.

Volumez

Series A in 2023
Volumez is a provider of Data Infrastructure as a Service (DIaaS), offering a platform that integrates and orchestrates cloud resources to create customized data infrastructures suited to specific workload requirements. The platform is designed for data-intensive applications, ensuring performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency across any cloud environment. With its innovative architecture and controller-less design, Volumez simplifies the deployment of storage solutions and dynamically adjusts to the evolving needs of businesses. This results in a predictable and composable DIaaS that delivers high performance and ultra-low latency while maintaining enterprise-grade data resilience at optimized costs. The company’s services are accessible through major cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, facilitating easier management of both public and private cloud resources.

MDClone

Series C in 2022
MDClone Ltd. is a company that specializes in software development for analyzing medical records. Founded in 2016 and based in Beersheba, Israel, MDClone has created a platform that generates synthetic medical records for fictitious patients, thus mitigating the risk of disclosing actual patient data. This innovative platform, known as ADAMS, provides a self-service analytics environment that facilitates exploration and collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem. By enabling researchers and healthcare organizations to examine disease behaviors, treatment efficacy, and operational efficiencies, MDClone supports the advancement of medical research and improves patient outcomes while ensuring the protection of sensitive medical information. The company serves a diverse clientele that includes major health systems, payers, and life sciences organizations in the United States, Canada, and Israel.

Speedata

Series A in 2021
Speedata develops specialized processors for accelerating big data analytics across various industries. Its core product is the Analytics Processing Unit (APU), designed to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database workloads, significantly enhancing performance while reducing costs, power consumption, and space requirements.

Redis

Series F in 2020
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Speedata

Seed Round in 2020
Speedata develops specialized processors for accelerating big data analytics across various industries. Its core product is the Analytics Processing Unit (APU), designed to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database workloads, significantly enhancing performance while reducing costs, power consumption, and space requirements.

Redis

Series E in 2019
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Redis

Series D in 2017
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Redis

Series C in 2016
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Redis

Series B in 2015
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Redis

Series A in 2013
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.

Axxana

Series B in 2009
Axxana Inc. is a provider of disaster recovery solutions tailored for enterprises and cloud service providers, with a focus on ensuring zero data loss during recovery. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Newton, Massachusetts, Axxana offers innovative products such as the Phoenix System, which is specifically designed for Oracle and Exadata environments. This system facilitates data recovery across various distances and communication lines. Additionally, Axxana's Phoenix System RP enhances the performance of asynchronous replication by delivering synchronous data protection, allowing for effective data recovery without transaction loss. The company employs advanced technologies, drawing on expertise from aviation's Flight Data Recorder systems, to tackle contemporary data protection challenges, positioning itself as a leader in the emerging field of Enterprise Data Recording.

StoreAge

Debt Financing in 2006
StoreAge's Storage Virtualisation Manager is out-of-data path software installed on a switch-based appliance, which pools storage resources around a storage-area network. The company also has snapshot copy, replication, disaster recovery and migration software
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