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Viola Ventures

Israel's flagship early-stage VC ($1.5B AUM, Viola Group). One concentrated quantum bet: co-led QuamCore's seed and re-upped its Series A; 'AI Infrastructure & Quantum' is a named Fund 7 strategic area ($250M, Dec 2025).

Active Herzliya, IsraelFounded 2000

Investment thesis

Early-stage flagship of Viola Group, Israel's largest tech investment platform ($6.5B+ group AUM). Founded in 2000 as Carmel Ventures, the Ventures arm manages $1.5B across 7 funds and invests from pre-seed through Series A, with 200+ companies backed including ironSource (acquired by Unity), Redis, Pagaya and Immunai.

In December 2025 it closed $250M across two vehicles: a first dry close of flagship Fund 7 (activating H1 2026) and the ~$100M Conviction Fund I, already fully deployed into secondaries. Fund 7 names 'AI Infrastructure & Quantum' as one of four strategic core areas, alongside vertical AI, cyber and defense, and fintech.

The quantum thesis is concentrated, not broad: Viola co-led QuamCore's $9M seed (March 2025) with Earth & Beyond Ventures and re-upped in its $26M Series A (August 2025, led by Sentinel Global). QuamCore, the only quantum company in the entire Viola portfolio, is building a superconducting architecture designed to scale to 1 million qubits in a single cryostat by embedding cryogenic digital control logic inside the cryostat. Managing Partner Zvika Orron leads the position.

Founders also get access to Viola Velocity, a network of 500+ Fortune 500 CxOs serving as design partners and early customers.

Anti-thesis

The patterns that trigger a fast no with this fund.

  1. Single quantum position: the entire quantum exposure is one company (QuamCore); no QC software, no sensing, and no second data point on follow-through
  2. Quantum is bundled, not standalone: Viola's own Fund 7 announcement frames it as 'AI Infrastructure & Quantum', one of four areas in a generalist Israeli early-stage fund where fintech, cyber and vertical AI dominate the track record
  3. Israel-only mandate: Fund 7 explicitly backs Israel's next wave; a non-Israeli quantum startup is outside the thesis
  4. Fund 7 was only dry-closed in December 2025 and activates in H1 2026; near-term new deals still come from the tail of Fund VI
  5. No disclosed check size and no quantum-dedicated partner title; the quantum file sits with a Managing Partner (Orron) whose portfolio spans many sectors

Notable quantum portfolio

Full portfolio
QuamCore

Frequent co-investors

  • Earth & Beyond Ventures
  • Sentinel Global
  • Surround Ventures
  • Qbeat Ventures
  • Rhodium
  • Arkin Capital