Aker
VC Fund
Lysaker, Norway
Aker is an investment management company with interests in oil and gas, maritime assets, marine biotechnology, and industrial software. Aker organizes its business activities in two segments: Industrial holdings and Financial investments.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Aker invests in
Stages Aker invests in
Countries Aker invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
4 more contacts available
Round size
- Series C
- $433M–$2B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 2 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (33%)
- GPU 1 (17%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- AgTech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
- Convertible Note 1 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Country
- Norway 2 (33%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Øyvind Eriksen
President and CEO
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President and CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Nscale
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Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options. | $2B / Series C / Mar 09, 2026 | |
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Nscale
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Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options. | $433M / Series C / Oct 01, 2025 | |
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Nscale
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Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options. | $1.1B / Series B / Sep 25, 2025 | |
Saga Robotics
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Saga Robotics revolutionizes the agricultural sector by developing autonomous robots capable of performing a wide variety of agricultural operations at a lower price and with higher quality than conventional systems.Saga Robotics aims to be the main provider of agricultural robots. Saga Robotics' short-term goal is to be the first providerof agricultural robots that represent a true added value to the farmer, meaning that they solve a specific task either cheaper or better than conventional systems. Saga Robotics' long-term goal is to be a provider of complete autonomous robotic systems capable of performing all agricultural operations at a lower price and higher quality.Saga Robotics' business philosophy is to develop technological advances for sustainable and profitable food production. | $11.2M / Aug 08, 2025 | |
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Saga Robotics
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Saga Robotics revolutionizes the agricultural sector by developing autonomous robots capable of performing a wide variety of agricultural operations at a lower price and with higher quality than conventional systems.Saga Robotics aims to be the main provider of agricultural robots. Saga Robotics' short-term goal is to be the first providerof agricultural robots that represent a true added value to the farmer, meaning that they solve a specific task either cheaper or better than conventional systems. Saga Robotics' long-term goal is to be a provider of complete autonomous robotic systems capable of performing all agricultural operations at a lower price and higher quality.Saga Robotics' business philosophy is to develop technological advances for sustainable and profitable food production. | $11.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 29, 2024 | |
Cognite
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Cognite is an industrial AI and enterprise software company that develops data and artificial intelligence solutions for asset-intensive industries, such as energy, manufacturing, power and utilities, and process industries. Founded in 2016, the company helps industrial organizations unify and contextualize operational technology (OT), engineeringtechnology (ET), and information technology (IT) data to accelerate digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and enable enterprise-scale AI adoption.The company's flagship platform, Cognite Data Fusion, serves as an industrial data and AI foundation that integrates data from disparate systems into a real-time industrial knowledge graph. This enables engineers, operators, maintenance teams, and data scientists to access trusted, contextualized information for use cases such as predictive maintenance, asset performance management, production optimization, digital twins, and operational analytics. Cognite also offers Cognite Atlas AI, a low-code platform for building and deploying AI agents that automate industrial workflows and support data-driven decision-making. | $205K / Convertible Note / Jun 12, 2020 |
Co-Investors
Nokia
3 deals together
NVIDIA
3 deals together
Point72
3 deals together
Blue Owl
2 deals together
Blystad Group
2 deals together
Dell Technologies
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does Aker invest in?
Aker invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and GPU startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Aker's check size?
Aker typically joins rounds of $433M–$2B at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aker participates in.
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The team at Aker includes Øyvind Eriksen (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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