Noam Inbar
Podcast appearances as guest
Builders - Interview with Noam Inbar from Viola Fintech
In this episode, I will talk with Noam Inbar from Viola Fintech, Israel based VC with $200+ million under management and investment across US, EU and Canada.
On the podcast
Viola Fintech is a global fintech-focused VC fund based in Israel, investing across the US and Europe, run by three partners who were fintech operators before investing.
Noam joined PayPal from a corporate e-commerce venture and later worked at Zooz, acquired by PayU in 2018, and at Forter.
Viola sources deals from inbound pitches, co-investors and its own market theses, contacting target companies directly.
Fintech founders who assume interest rates will stay low forever are in the wrong space; downturns reveal resilient founders.
Embedded finance is evolving into contextual finance, where products sit inside the user's main intent, such as travel insurance at flight booking or car insurance during Uber driver onboarding.
AI's real opportunity in finance is empowering professionals such as CFOs, planners and brokers, not replacing them, because customers still want human reassurance.
Viola first checks whether a problem is big enough and customers will pay, then whether the founders are the best team to solve it.
Noam looks for founders with leadership that can scale, resilience and flexibility, and good operational instincts and timing.