Avi Zeevi

About

Avi Zeevi is a co-founder of Viola Group and Viola Ventures. He is a General Partner at Viola Ventures, where he leads the fund's FinTech practice. Avi is a veteran FinTech entrepreneur and investor with over 40 years of experience. **Background:** * **Entrepreneurial Beginnings:** Avi started his career as a FinTech entrepreneur and was a co-founder and CEO of MINT Technologies. After MINT merged into Oshap, he became the CFO of Oshap, which was acquired by SunGard in 1999 for $220 million. * **Venture Capitalist:** Avi was the first VC investor in Actimize and served as its Chairman from 2001 until it was sold to NICE Systems in 2007 for $280 million. * **Viola Group & Viola Ventures:** Avi is a co-founder of Viola Group, a private equity investment group with over $3 billion in assets under management. He is also a co-founder and General Partner at Viola Ventures, a venture capital firm. Additionally, he is a co-founder and chairman of the investment committee of Viola FinTech. * **Investment Interests:** His investment interests include FinTech, Big Data, AI, and Software. Viola Ventures invests in early-stage Israeli or Israeli-related companies with ideas that can lead to transformational companies. Their portfolio includes companies in enterprise software/SaaS, AI, cloud infrastructure, FinTech, frontier technologies (automotive, IoT, AR/VR, drones), big data, digital media, consumer, and semiconductors. * **Current Engagements:** Avi currently serves on th