Omry Ben David

General Partner

(18 Posts)

2024 Israeli Fintech Report & Map

Following two years of local and global challenges, the Israeli FinTech sector demonstrated remarkable resilience and strong performance in 2023…

FinTech in 2023 – Viola’s Predictions

Despite the overall pullback in venture funding and the turmoil of financial markets, financial services remained the leading sector globally…

2022 Israeli Fintech Report: Rocky but Optimistic

The global uncertainty in 2022 brought decades-high inflation rates with an uncertain macro environment, resulting in central banks using every…

Protecting Web3.0 Apps – What Founders Should Consider

It’s not a secret that Web3.0 protocols and applications have experienced significant cyber attacks in recent years. The vertical’s relative…

Web 3.0 / Blockchain Tech Stack – Opportunities for Innovation

At Viola Ventures, we’ve been following crypto, blockchain and web 3.0 for a while now, tracking market maturity, regulation readiness,…

CeFi vs. DeFi and Whether You Should Care

As experienced investors in the FinTech space, we’ve been closely following the evolution of financial services in Web 3.0 and…

Viola’s Israel Web3.0/Blockchain Map

After mapping the Web3.0/Blockchain innovation stack we continue to double down on the sector and are proud to publish the…

Fintech – Israel’s Growth Engine

2021 marked a significant boom in the Israeli fintech ecosystem, totaling $4.5B in fintech funding, setting a record high. Not…

Embedded Financial Services are Going Mass Market with Alviere

Consumer financial services are undergoing another tectonic shift. Pre the fintech revolution, which started during the 2008 financial crisis, one…

Will we see a “Lyft Bank”?

We had a really interesting talk with Ran Makavy last week (EVP Strategic Initiatives at Lyft), on embedded fintech. Lyft…

Money 20/20 Made it Clear: FinTech is Now Eating the World

I recently returned from the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, the industry gathering that attracts the global fintech community…

Israel FinTech Report by Start-Up Nation Central with Viola contribution on WealthTech

Start-Up Nation Central’s (SNC) has published its inaugural Israel FinTech Report this week. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of…

10 Best practices for building a winning FinTech product: Highlights from our recent Viola FinTech Forum

Nailing product-market fit in any vertical is a challenge for many entrepreneurs. Doing so in fintech adds another level of…

Why tech startups that learn to navigate innovation cycles and “think big” will shape the next decade

We spend a lot of time at Viola Ventures researching and debating areas of investment that we think will be…

6½ Financial Services that are ripe for disruption by innovation in Fintech

At Viola Ventures, we are long on Fintech, and believe that Israel is uniquely positioned as a fertile ground for…

Less is more: How to present your startup financials in just 3 slides

As a follow up to my last blog post on 5 tips for building your startup’s financial plan, here are…

5 Tips for building a financial plan for your startup (and why it’s more important for you than for your VCs)

No matter how promising your startup is, not having a sound financial plan to follow – even at an early…

Onwards and Upwards: From a decade on Wall Street to a Partnership at Viola Ventures

This is my first blog post in what I hope will become a recurring series. It will be on a…

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