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Viola Ventures

Founders Avi Zeevi Shlomo Dovrat

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Total investments 281
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 126
Rounds per year 11.71
Lead investments 55
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.55
Exits 41
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Analytics
  • FinTech
Summary

Viola Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in Asia in Israel. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Herzliya.

The current fund was established by Avi Zeevi, Shlomo Dovrat. The overall number of key employees were 12.

This Viola Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Viola Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Cyber Security. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Payoneer, Skybox Security, enSilo The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Viola Ventures, startups are often financed by Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Globespan Capital Partners, Benchmark, 83North. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Globespan Capital Partners, Benchmark, Intel Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PayZen

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Payments
$32M13 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Faye

Insurance
InsurTech
Predictive Analytics
Transportation
Travel
$31M30 Jul 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Volumez

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
$20M10 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ember

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$6M17 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Foundational

$8M25 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Faddom

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Information Services
Infrastructure
Private Cloud
Software
$8M21 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Addressable

Blockchain
Digital Marketing
SaaS
Social Media Marketing
$6M21 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

PhaseV

Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
24 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

HyperGuest Ltd.

Information Services
Information Technology
Travel
$23M07 Jul 2023 Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel
News
Sorbet Closes $21M in Funding

– Sorbet is an Israeli fintech startup founded in 2019.
– The company raised $21m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Dovi Frances’ Group 11, along with current investors, including: Viola Ventures, Meron Capital and Global Founders Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s operations to Australia.

Sorbet raises $6M seed led by Viola Ventures to tackle the thorny financials of paid time off

– U.S./Israeli startup Sorbet, which is tackling what companies do with the financial risks as employees accrue paid time off (PTO), has raised $6m in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures, with participation by Global Founders Capital and Meron Capital.
– The company says that in the U.S., employees use only 72% of PTO balances, even though it’s the most sought-after benefit. But this, effectively, comes out at 768 million unused days off a year, worth around $224 billion.
– This creates a difficult problem for CFOs and accountants because its creates balance sheet liabilities on the company’s books.
– Sorbet buys out these PTO liabilities from employees, then loads the cash value of the PTO on prepaid credit cards for the employees.

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Total investments 281
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 11.71
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 55
Follow on index 0.55
Exits 41
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PayZen

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Payments
$32M13 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Faye

Insurance
InsurTech
Predictive Analytics
Transportation
Travel
$31M30 Jul 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Volumez

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
$20M10 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ember

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$6M17 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Foundational

$8M25 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Faddom

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Information Services
Infrastructure
Private Cloud
Software
$8M21 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Addressable

Blockchain
Digital Marketing
SaaS
Social Media Marketing
$6M21 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

PhaseV

Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
24 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

HyperGuest Ltd.

Information Services
Information Technology
Travel
$23M07 Jul 2023 Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel
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