Israel’s Viola partners with Abu Dhabi’s G42 on tech talent platform

G42, a prominent technology company based in Abu Dhabi, has partnered with leading Israeli investment group Viola to launch Global Valley, a talent-as-a-service platform aimed at meeting the global demand for top tech talent. With support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), Global Valley will provide end-to-end R&D and tech excellence centers to clients and is aiming to become one of the largest employers of high-skilled tech talent in the region.

The platform will cover all aspects of the employee life cycle, from recruitment to management and payroll, catering to both standard technology roles and specialized areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Avi Zeevi (left) of Viola and Peng Xiao of G42.

Global Valley further advances collaboration between Abu Dhabi and Israel since the Abraham Accords. The joint venture between G42 and Viola follows recent collaborations between ADIO and Israeli companies Liquidity Group and OurCrowd. FinTech company Liquidity Group became the first Israeli company to join ADIO’s Innovation Programme, establishing an R&D centre in the UAE capital. OurCrowd is significantly expanding its Abu Dhabi operations with a new venture capital office and AI tech hub enabled by ADIO.

“We’re proud to continue the road paved by the Abraham Accords agreements and to build a joint venture that will leverage Israel’s innovation ecosystem,” said Avi Zeevi, Co-Founder and General Partner of Viola. “We believe this initiative will have a major impact on the development of the region. Technology will continue to be a significant force of transformation globally, and this is the time to invest in the infrastructure that will provide tech companies, in Israel and globally, with the best-of-class tech talent to fuel their future growth and support their activities in the region.”