Viola Ventures
Viola Ventures, (formerly Carmel Ventures), established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $800 million under management. Carmel is focused on early stage companies in the fields of software, software as a service, financial technology, Internet, media, communications, semiconductors, and consumer electronics.
Viola Ventures is a member of the Viola Group, a private equity investment group with over $2.5B under management, focused on technology-based investment opportunities in Israel. Shlomo Dovrat was a founder.
Companies
"Adapteva raises $3.6M for the ‘most energy efficient’ parallel computing chips", VentureBeat, January 16, 2014.
"CellSavers Raises $15 Million From Sequoia Capital and Carmel Ventures", VentureBeat, August 18, 2016.
Roy Goldenberg, December 2, 2015 "Israeli mobile optimization co Cellwize raises $24.5m", Globes.
"Cloudyn Raises $11 Million in B-Round Led by Carmel Ventures", Yahoo! Finance, December 14, 2015.
[http://www.geektime.com/2016/07/28/israeli-startup-cooladata-raises-5-6-million/" Yaneev Avital, Geektime, Jul 28, 2016]
- enSilo
- EverCompliant
- IronSource
- Kampyle (software)
- LiveU
- LuckyFish
- MultiPhy
- MyThings
- Optimal Plus
- Outbrain
- Pagaya
- Payoneer
- Perfecto Mobile
- Personetics
- Playbuzz
- RealMatch
- Redis Labs
- Reduxio
"Seebo Raises $8.5 Million Funding Round Led By Carmel Ventures to Make IoT Simple for Product Companies", PR Newswire, February 2, 2016.
"Worthy Raises $8M in B Round led by Carmel Ventures", PR Newswire, October 22, 2015.
Exits
Company |
Industry |
Description |
Initial Investment Date |
Exit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Followap |
Communications |
Presence-based and Instant Messaging (IM) solutions to Mobile Operators |
2001 |
Acquired by NeuStar in 2006 for $139M |
Actimize |
Enterprise Software |
Brokerage compliance, anti-money laundering, and fraud prevention |
2001 |
Acquired by NICE Systems in 2007 for $280M |
ECI Telecom |
Communications |
Networking Infrastructure Equipment |
2002 |
Acquired by Swarth Group in 2007 for $1.25B |
CopperGate |
Communications |
Home Networking Company |
2005 |
Acquired by Sigma Designs in 2009 for $180M |
Snaptu |
Mobile |
Mobile Applications |
2010 |
Acquired by Facebook in 2011 for $70M |
Oversi Networks*Wanova |
Communications |
rich-media caching and content delivery solutions |
2004 |
Acquired by Allot Communications in 2012 . |
DesignArt Networks |
Communications |
Small cell modem and system design for cellular base stations |
2005 |
Acquired by Qualcomm in 2012 . |
Wanova |
Communications |
desktop virtualization software |
2009 |
Acquired by VMWare in 2012. |
Shunra Software |
Software |
Network virtualization solutions for software testing |
2004 |
Acquired by HP in 2014. |
Kontera |
Digital Advertising |
Content activation platform |
2007 |
Acquired by Amobee in 2014 for $150M . |
Red Bend Software |
Software |
Mobile Software Management (MSM) |
2000 |
Acquired by Harman in 2015. |
eXelate Media |
Digital Advertising |
Advertising Data |
2007 |
Acquired by Nielsen N.V. in 2015. |
cVidya Networks |
Telecommunications |
Revenue assurance, Fraud management, |
2004 |
Acquired by Amdocs in 2016 for $30 million |
See also
- Economy of Israel
- Startup Nation