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4 Feb 2025
The FinTech industry has weathered two challenging years marked by inflation, rising interest rates, and reduced investor confidence. But as…
17 Jun 2024
Following two years of local and global challenges, the Israeli FinTech sector demonstrated remarkable resilience and strong performance in 2023…
22 Jan 2023
Despite the overall pullback in venture funding and the turmoil of financial markets, financial services remained the leading sector globally…
15 Jan 2023
The global uncertainty in 2022 brought decades-high inflation rates with an uncertain macro environment, resulting in central banks using every…
30 Oct 2022
It’s not a secret that Web3.0 protocols and applications have experienced significant cyber attacks in recent years. The vertical’s relative…
10 Aug 2022
At Viola Ventures, we’ve been following crypto, blockchain and web 3.0 for a while now, tracking market maturity, regulation readiness,…
14 Jun 2022
As experienced investors in the FinTech space, we’ve been closely following the evolution of financial services in Web 3.0 and…
16 Mar 2022
After mapping the Web3.0/Blockchain innovation stack we continue to double down on the sector and are proud to publish the…
8 Mar 2022
2021 marked a significant boom in the Israeli fintech ecosystem, totaling $4.5B in fintech funding, setting a record high. Not…
12 Oct 2021
Consumer financial services are undergoing another tectonic shift. Pre the fintech revolution, which started during the 2008 financial crisis, one…
19 Oct 2020
We had a really interesting talk with Ran Makavy last week (EVP Strategic Initiatives at Lyft), on embedded fintech. Lyft…
11 Nov 2019
I recently returned from the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, the industry gathering that attracts the global fintech community…
4 Sep 2018
Start-Up Nation Central’s (SNC) has published its inaugural Israel FinTech Report this week. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of…
26 Feb 2018
Nailing product-market fit in any vertical is a challenge for many entrepreneurs. Doing so in fintech adds another level of…
30 Jul 2017
We spend a lot of time at Viola Ventures researching and debating areas of investment that we think will be…
28 Jun 2017
At Viola Ventures, we are long on Fintech, and believe that Israel is uniquely positioned as a fertile ground for…
29 May 2017
As a follow up to my last blog post on 5 tips for building your startup’s financial plan, here are…
26 Apr 2017
No matter how promising your startup is, not having a sound financial plan to follow – even at an early…
9 Mar 2017
This is my first blog post in what I hope will become a recurring series. It will be on a…
