private industry venture capital founded 2000 founder shlomo dovrat avi zeevi headquarters herzliya israel aum usd 800 million number of employees 30 website www.viola group.com carmelventures.html carmel ventures established in 2000 is an israeli venture capital fund with over 800 million under management . 1 carmel is focused on early stage companies in the fields of software software as a service financial technology internet media communications semiconductors and consumer electronics . carmel ventures is a member of the viola group a private equity investment group with over 2.5 b under management 2 focused on technology based investment opportunities in israel . shlomo dovrat was a founder . contents 1 companies 2 exits 3 external links 4 references companies edit adapteva 3 cellsavers 4 cellwize 5 clarizen cloudyn 6 credifi cooladata 7 ensilo evercompliant ironsource kampyle software lightricks liveu luckyfish multiphy mythings optimal plus outbrain pagaya payoneer perfecto mobile personetics playbuzz realmatch redis labs reduxio samanage seebo 8 splacer sundaysky tapingo tonara tradair worthy 9 exits edit company industry description initial investment date exit followap communications presence based and instant messaging im solutions to mobile operators 2001 acquired by neustar in 2006 for 139m 10 actimize enterprise software brokerage compliance anti money laundering and fraud prevention 2001 acquired by nice systems in 2007 for 280m 11 eci telecom communications networking infrastructure equipment 2002 acquired by swarth group in 2007 for 1.25 b 12 coppergate communications home networking company 2005 acquired by sigma designs in 2009 for 180m 13 snaptu mobile mobile applications 2010 acquired by facebook in 2011 for 70m 14 oversi networks wanova communications rich media caching and content delivery solutions 2004 acquired by allot communications in 2012 . 15 designart networks communications small cell modem and system design for cellular base stations 2005 acquired by qualcomm in 2012 . 16 wanova communications desktop virtualization software 2009 acquired by vmware in 2012 . shunra software software network virtualization solutions for software testing 2004 acquired by hp in 2014 . 17 kontera digital advertising content activation platform 2007 acquired by amobee in 2014 for 150m . 18 red bend software software mobile software management msm 2000 acquired by harman in 2015 . 19 exelate media digital advertising advertising data 2007 acquired by nielsen n.v. in 2015 . 20 cvidya networks telecommunications revenue assurance fraud management 2004 acquired by amdocs in 2016 for 30 million 21 external links edit carmel ventures homepage viola group homepage viola notes blog references edit catherine shu october 12 2014 carmel ventures raises 194m from investors including baidu techcrunch october 2014 . eran peer february 21 2012 goldman sachs buys 10 % of viola group globes february 2012 . adapteva raises 3.6 m for the most energy efficient parallel computing chips venturebeat january 16 2014 . cellsavers raises 15 million from sequoia capital and carmel ventures venturebeat august 18 2016 . roy goldenberg december 2 2015 israeli mobile optimization co cellwize raises 24.5 m globes . cloudyn raises 11 million in b round led by carmel ventures yahoo finance december 14 2015 . yaneev avital geektime jul 28 2016 seebo raises 8.5 million funding round led by carmel ventures to make iot simple for product companies pr newswire february 2 2016 . worthy raises 8m in b round led by carmel ventures pr newswire october 22 2015 . neustar buys followap for 139m . light reading . 28 nov 2006 . nice systems to acquire actimize reuters july 2 2007 retrieved 2009 10 09 swarth group purchases eci dean takahashi october 14 2009 . sigma designs buys home networking chip maker coppergate for 160m . venturebeat . retrieved august 1 2011 . arthur charles 21 march 2011 . facebook buys mobile startup snaptu social networking site s latest acquisition enables people to use smartphone like applications on simpler feature phones . the guardian . allot posts 43 % revenue rise ; buys oversi networks globes 31 july 2012 shah agam august 23 2012 . qualcomm buys small cell provider designart networks . idg news service . retrieved june 6 2014 . hp acquired the network virtualization business and technology of shunra amobee buys adconion for 235m and kontera for 150m in consolidation play 1 2 amdocs completes purchase of cvidya v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title carmel ventures & oldid 741877681 categories venture capital firmsprivately held companies of israelinvestment companies of israel navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 06 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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