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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pitango Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Viola Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Gemini Israel Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Viola Credit | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Glilot Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Herzliya. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Herzliya)
Pitango Venture Capital
Pitango Venture Capital is a $2B venture capital firm with 3 dedicated teams focused on Early Stage (Pitango First), Health-tech (Pitango Health-tech), and Growth (Pitango Growth) investments in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups around the world. With offices in Israel and Silicon Valley, Pitango currently manages several venture funds totaling over $2.4 Billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 150 companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Viola Ventures
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 [Avi Zeevi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/avi-zeevi) and [Shlomo Dovrat](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shlomo-dovrat), Viola Ventures manages over $1.2B across six funds, and is the only Israel-based VC fund with seven investing 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Gemini Israel Ventures
Since 1993, Gemini Israel Funds has helped many of Israel’s most talented entrepreneurs to build innovative and world-changing companies. With over $700M under management, Gemini invests in early stage and growth-stage companies across a range of industries including communications, consumer electronics, enterprise software, Internet software and services, semiconductors, and environmental technologies. The companies backed by their investment professionals include Allot Communications, Ceragon Networks, Commtouch, Diligent Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Outbrain, Passave, Precise Software Solutions, PrimeSense, Saifun Semiconductors, Traiana, Takadu, Verisity, and many others.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Viola Credit
Viola Credit is a global alternative credit investment manager, provides cutting-edge, flexible, and tailored credit solutions for global technology companies to support growth through two main credit offerings: Venture Lending & Fintech Lending. Since 2000, Viola Credit has successfully deployed over $1B in various businesses across multiple stages and geographies. Viola Credit is part of the Viola Group, Israel’s leading technology-focused investment group with over $3.0 billion of assets under management.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Glilot Capital Partners
Glilot Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs with a solid success record and with the aim of accelerating the success of those starting out. The firm’s early growth fund focuses on post-Series A startups in the enterprise software and cybersecurity sectors. They seek to provide flexible funding solutions by leading or participating in early growth rounds and offering convertible notes. Glilot+ includes a large community of industry leaders, strong financial backing, and extensive resources to drive the growth of their business. Glilot Capital Partners was founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Concord Ventures
Concord Ventures is a venture capital firm offering exceptional entrepreneurs the capital, guidance and industry contacts necessary to build successful companies, at the forefront of their technology sector. With over ten years of leadership in the Israeli venture capital market, and with a dedicated group of highly experienced partners, Concord is well positioned to leverage and invest in the best Israeli-based technology companies and to provide attractive returns to its investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Viola FinTech
Viola FinTech is a cross-stage venture fund that invests in global FinTech companies alongside leading venture investors. The fund brings together financial institutions and innovative startups to accelerate the modernization and digitization of financial institutions and support the growth of FinTech companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Xenia Venture Capital
Xenia Venture Capital is an investment company publicly traded in the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange that operates a technological incubator, and is engaged in the initiation and build-up of high-technology start up companies in Israel, in the fields of Information Technology and Life Sciences Medical devices.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital, Virtualization
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Benson Oak Ventures
Benson Oak Ventures (“BOV”) is a buy-out and growth equity investment firm. Backed by a deep pool of international investors, BOC focuses on leading small to medium-size enterprises based in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based in Prague, the firm’s investment professionals combine for more than 50 years of experience on the Czech and Slovak markets. Benson Oak s.r.o. was founded by Gabriel Eichler in 1991, and now acts exclusively as the advisor to BOC on both domestic and international acquisitions. Its advisory experience on the Czech and Slovak markets includes over 70 completed debt-raising and M&A transactions worth more than €6 billion, giving BOC unparalleled access to the highest ranks of local banks, government and corporate leaders. Since 2001, BOC has invested over €50 million across a variety of industries. Their position on the market allows us to source deals before they become public, leading to closer relationships with the companies they invest in and more aligned incentives. Once completed, they actively participate in each investment, helping to guide their portfolio companies from the early stages of strategic development through exit. Their principle goal as an organization is to invest in high quality businesses and provide those companies with the support necessary to reach new levels of performance. By adding a human element to the financial discipline they bring to each investment, they move beyond the purely monetary facets of their business and instead create true value for both their investors and the community they live in.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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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.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Qure Ventures
Qure Ventures is venture capital firm under OurCrowd. Qure is led by successful digital health veterans with vast experience founding, growing, and exiting companies over the last 20+ years. Qure has established strategic partnerships with key stakeholders in consumer, provider, payer, as well as pharma domains – providing fast track access to market and clinical trial opportunities for portfolio companies. Qure is Israel’s first exclusively focused digital health fund. The fund focuses predominantly on startups located in Israel, home to world’s leading tech + digital health ecosystem. OurCrowd’s global network, investment leadership and in-house medical expertise provide Qure with unparalleled deal access and robust diligence.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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OM2
OM2 builds Fintech companies together with entrepreneurs and partners who transform how people and enterprises finance, transact & interact. With long-vision flexible funding based on true collaborative partnership, we share resources and a common vision to build strong fintech companies that make significant impact on people and industries. We work shoulder-to-shoulder, infusing our extensive experience in company- and product-building into every venture. Together, we evade typical startup pitfalls to smooth and expedite the journey to capture and grow markets. We are technology driven Innovators. Born from the epicenter of high-tech innovation, we invest in deeply rooted technology assets including proprietary open source platforms like Scalecube and Capsula to empower our companies, overcome obstacles and bring new opportunities to global markets. We believe in fintech as the great enabler for enterprises and individuals worldwide. We believe in people we trust and respect, to flatten company hierarchies and provide flexible financing that empowers great companies with the freedom to grow. We also believe that the work place is a fun place, motivated by a collaborative, problem-solving environment of teamwork and triumph. Together, we create new Fintech opportunities, efficiencies and savings for people and companies around the world.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech
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