About Viola Group

Viola is Israel’s leading technology-focused investment group with over $3 billion assets under management. We enable Israeli entrepreneurs to build transformational technology companies. The group, founded by Shlomo Dovrat, Harel Beit-On, Avi Zeevi, Moti Weiss, Ruthi Simha and the late Aharon Dovrat, aims to provide long term, world-class returns by identifying and pursuing attractive investment strategies in the vibrant Israeli technology market. Viola is a multi-strategy investment house with focused, separate investment arms: Viola Ventures (formerly Carmel Ventures) - a venture capital firm empowering early stage start-ups to become category leaders; Viola Growth -an Israeli-based technology growth capital fund, focusing on investing in global companies at expansion phase; Viola Credit - Israel’s premier private credit fund offering multi credit products to growing companies; Viola Partners - an exclusive investment fund tailored especially for private investors; and Viola FinTech - a cross stage venture fund that invests in global FinTech companies. We partner with companies from inception to growth. Each partnership operates independently with a dedicated investment team, different investors and portfolio companies, but shares access to value-added services and professionals. We are backed by leading global institutional investors from all over the world and provide long-term, world-class returns by identifying and pursuing attractive investment opportunities in Israel’s vibrant tech industry. Viola was founded in 2000 and has supported over 200 technology companies to date.

Investment Details

Investment Range
Not specified
Investment Stage
Various stages
Industry Focus
Financial Services, AI/ML, Climate (+3 more)
Investor Type
Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Focus

Focus Areas
AI/ML Climate Finance Fintech VR/AR +2 more
Investment Stages
Debt, Early Stage, Early Stage Venture, Growth, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Seed