Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Avi is a Co-founder of the Viola Group, and a Co-founder of Viola Ventures. He serves as a General Partner at Viola Ventures and he leads the fund’s FinTech practice. His investment interests include FinTech, Big Data, AI and Software.

Avi began his career as a hi-tech entrepreneur and was a Co-founder and CEO of MINT Technologies. After merging Mint into Oshap, he served as the CFO of Oshap (acquired by SunGard for $220M). Avi was the first VC investor in Actimize, where he served as an active Chairman from 2001 and until it was sold to NICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) in August 2007 for $280 million. Avi currently serves on the Board of Directors of Payoneer, SundaySky, Personetics, TradAir, Evercompliant, CrediFi, Pagaya and ParallelM. Avi was a lecturer at the Kellogg Recanati International Executive MBA Program for several years, where he taught the “VC: What’s it all about” course.