# Viola Ventures

> Viola Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 229 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Israel
- Total investments: 229
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Fund size: $250M
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/violaventures/
- Website: http://www.viola-group.com/fund/violaventures

Viola Ventures (formerly Carmel Ventures) is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli-related early stage companies with significant ideas that can lead to transformational companies.Founded in 2000 by partners solely dedicated to early-stage tech investments. This allows for unique depth and diversification that spans across a wide range of backgrounds and verticals.With over 20-year legacy in Israel’s vibrant technology ecosystem, Viola Ventures is known for repeatedly backing global tech companies and unicorns, such as ironSource, Payoneer, Lightricks, Redis Labs, and Outbrain. The fund holds a substantial share of Israel’s significant exits, including Actimize, RedBend, ECI, Samanage, Perfecto, Tapingo, and more.Viola Ventures invests in exceptional teams with a strong focus on AI technologies looking to transform traditional markets, the semiconductors and deeptech industries, and consumer facing products.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$21M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$29M |
| Series B | $5M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 7% |
| FinTech | 15 | 7% |
| Analytics | 15 | 7% |

176 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 49 | 21% |
| Series B | 46 | 20% |
| Seed | 35 | 15% |
| Series C | 34 | 15% |
| Series D | 17 | 7% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 28% |
| Israel | 48 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 0% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yael Alroy | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yael-alroy |
| Alex Shmulovich | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-shmulovich |
| Avi Zeevi | Co-Founder and General Partner | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avi-zeevi |
| Daniel Cohen | General Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-cohen |
| Itzik Avidor | Partner and Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itzik-avidor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Faye | Faye provides whole-trip travel coverage and care that brings out the best in each journey with industry-leading technology that enables smarter, faster, smoother assistance and claims resolutions. Our robust travel insurance covers your health, your trip, your stuff, and even your pet, via an app that provides real-time proactive solutions,quick reimbursements and 24/7 customer experience specialists who turn travel mishaps into laugh-about-it-later memories. Join our team of travel and insurance experts as we set a new standard by overdelivering in an industry oftentimes synonymous with doing the opposite. | $50M | Series C | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| TYLsemi | TYLsemi is revolutionizing how AI infrastructure silicon is developed by producing standards-based, production-ready chiplets specifically designed for current multi-die systems. | $43M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Lama AI | Lama AI provides AI-native loan origination infrastructure for community and regional banks. Its platform helps automate intake, borrower assistance, document collection, underwriting preparation, decisioning workflows, closing, and portfolio monitoring, enabling banks to scale lending operations while reducing manual work. Trusted by leadingcommunity and regional banks, Lama AI helps lenders move faster, improve borrower experience, and preserve the credit discipline, oversight, and compliance standards required in regulated lending. Lama AI is on a mission to expand access to fair, profitable capital for small businesses and beyond. Headquartered in NYC with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Lama AI is reshaping the future of business lending.For more information visit us at: https://lama.ai/ | $12M | Series A | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Aryon Security | Aryon Security provides a cloud security enforcement platform that helps organizations prevent security risks before they are deployed into cloud environments. The company enables security teams to define, manage, and enforce cloud security policies across infrastructure managed through infrastructure-as-code tools, command-line interfaces, cloudconsoles, and third-party services. Its platform applies preventive controls at the deployment stage, helping organizations address configuration risks before they reach production environments. The solution includes policy management, automated policy recommendations, exception handling workflows, drift monitoring, and support for multi-cloud environments. Aryon Security also offers AI-driven policy capabilities that adapt security controls to an organization’s cloud infrastructure and operational requirements, helping teams maintain governance and compliance while reducing reliance on reactive remediation processes. | $29M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Zyg | Zyg offers a platform that helps users discover, buy, and manage consumer health products through curated bundles and guided choices. It serves as a multidisciplinary design agency that supports graphic identity, product and packaging design, exhibition and installation planning, website creation, and digital experience development. The firm offersservices in strategy, research, visual identity, UI/UX design, content development, and production coordination. It combines creative and analytical expertise—including design analysts, content creators, and visual producers—to guide clients through complex project workflows. The agency focuses on turning ideas into cohesive brand experiences across both physical and digital channels. | $58M | Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Tenna Systems | Tenna Systems develops a platform that supports real-time monitoring, geolocation, and mitigation of radio-frequency interference to help maintain dependable connectivity for mission-critical systems. Its technology is informed by extensive experience in electromagnetic warfare and is designed to enhance awareness of RF activity across complexoperational environments. Tip&Cue supports defense, aerospace, and mobility organizations by enabling detection and analysis of interference sources and by strengthening the resilience of systems that depend on spectrum availability. | $13.5M | Seed | Feb 08, 2026 |  |
| Lin Health | Online integrative pain management. | $11M | Series A | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Impala AI | Impala AI is a software company that specializes in cloud computing infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and machine learning . | $11M | Seed | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| OneLayer | OneLayer provides enterprise-grade security for private LTE/5G networks. | $28M | Series A | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| QuamCore | QuamCore is driving breakthroughs across industries by advancing the field of quantum computing, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and bringing large-scale, commercially viable quantum computing to reality. | $26M | Series A | Aug 04, 2025 |  |

10 of 229 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Viola Ventures invest in?

Viola Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 229 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Viola Ventures's check size?

Viola Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$21M at Seed, $3.5M–$29M at Series A and $5M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Viola Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Viola Ventures?

Public channels for Viola Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Viola Ventures?

The team at Viola Ventures includes Yael Alroy (Principal), Alex Shmulovich (Partner) and Avi Zeevi (Co-Founder and General Partner), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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