
Venture Partner, Viola Ventures
, Israel
Lior Akavia is a serial entrepreneur and investor who focuses on cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure software, and AI. He is a Venture Partner at Viola Ventures and leverages his extensive entrepreneurial experience to support and empower other founders.
Lior was the CEO and Co-Founder of Seebo, an industrial AI startup that helped tier-one manufacturers worldwide predict and prevent quality and yield losses. Seebo was successfully acquired in 2022. Before Seebo, Lior co-founded and led Playfect, a company that manufactured millions of gaming accessories sold across more than 35 countries before its acquisition in 2013.
Lior started his computer science B.Sc. at the age of 15 and graduated Summa Cum Laude. This achievement paved the way for five years in an elite cybersecurity unit in the Israeli army, where he served as a software developer and R&D manager. During his military service, Lior also completed his MBA.
Lior has lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Shenzhen, and San Francisco throughout his career.