Investors

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm, empowering early stage start-ups to become global leaders.

Founded in 2000, Viola Ventures manages over $1B across five funds, with significant number of investors from the US, Asia, Europe and Israel. It is managed by six investing partners, solely dedicated to early-stage tech investments, and has backed a substantial share of Israel’s exits, including: Actimize, RedBend, DesignArt, CopperGate, Exelate and ECI. The fund has vast legacy in building global transformational fintech companies, such Actimze (sold to NICE) and Gilon sold to Ness. Viola Ventures is part of Viola – Israel’s leading technology-oriented investment group with over $2.8B assets under management. The group employs over 30 investment professionals and 40 support staff and has invested in over 200 technology companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management and investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, India, Israel and China with Lightspeed China Partners.

Over the past two decades, Lightspeed partners have backed more than 200 consumer, enterprise and cleantech companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Flixster, Fusion-io, Informatica, Kosmix, LivingSocial, Lucky Pai, Nicira, Playdom, Pliant Technology, Provigent, Riverbed Technology, Solazyme, TutorVista, Virsa Systems, Waveset, and XtremIO.

The Sequoia team helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. We spur them to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from our unmatched community and the lessons we’ve learned over 40 years working with Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, John Morgridge, Jerry Yang, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, Adi Tatarko and Jack Dorsey, among many others. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 20% of NASDAQ’s total value. We’re proud that their success also fuels great causes: since 2000 alone we have returned more than $10 billion to non-profits like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT.

Warburg Pincus is a private partnership focused solely on private equity.

The firm has a 55-year track record of growth investing, building world-class businesses around the globe. Warburg Pincus applies a thesis-driven approach to investing across a variety of sectors and geographies. The firm has developed domain expertise in Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial & Business Services, Real Estate, and Technology. Warburg Pincus operates from 14 offices in 10 countries. As part of their “one firm” approach to investing, their global network of professionals work collectively across geographies and sectors to ensure that the right people with the right experience are available to every entrepreneur and every business.

Thoma Bravo is one of the world’s leading private equity firms with more than 40 years of history in providing investment capital and strategic support to fast-growing software and technology companies.

Thoma Bravo is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, with more than $91 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2021. The firm invests in growth-oriented, innovative companies operating in the software and technology sectors. Leveraging the firm's deep sector expertise and proven strategic and operational capabilities, Thoma Bravo collaborates with its portfolio companies to implement operating best practices, drive growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings. Over the past 20 years, the firm has acquired more than 325 companies representing over $155 billion in enterprise value. The firm has offices in Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.