Rafi Carmeli

Rafi is a general partner at Viola Growth. He joined the fund in 2018 bringing with him 14 years of transaction experience as a seasoned technology and financial services investment banker and a corporate attorney, with a vast global network having worked and studied in the United States, Europe and Israel.

Prior to joining Viola Growth, Rafi was a Senior Vice President and Head of Emerging FinTech at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group of the firm’s Investment Banking Division in New York. During his tenure, Rafi sourced, led and executed numerous transactions across M&A, equity and debt. He also led a number of growth stage Financial Technology institutional investments on behalf of Goldman Sachs

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Rafi was a Corporate Attorney at S. Horowitz & Co. specializing in M&A and financing transactions for public and private companies, and served in the Submarines unit in the Israeli Navy.

Rafi holds a B.A. in Economics and a LL.B in Law from the University of Haifa and an MBA (with Honors) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association.

Rafi is based in New York and is Viola Growth’s contact in the United States.