Erkki Aaltonen
Managing Director @ Yara Growth Ventures
Erkki Aaltonen is a seed investor at Yara Growth Ventures focused on AgTech and Agriculture. Managing Director of Yara Growth Ventures
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Erkki Aaltonen invests in
Stages Erkki Aaltonen invests in
Countries Erkki Aaltonen invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 3 (50%)
- Agriculture 3 (50%)
- Machine Learning 3 (50%)
- Financial Services 2 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Series B 2 (33%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Country
- India 1 (17%)
- Kenya 1 (17%)
- Norway 1 (17%)
- Finland 1 (17%)
- Argentina 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Nano revolutionizes customer engagement by combining data and marketing in a new way. | Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Intelecy is a fast-growing Norwegian technology company providing solutions for customers worldwide across a large number of industries.Intelecy provides tools to analyze production data from the manufacturing and processing industry using machine learning to prevent breakdowns, predict failures, improve production processes and provide deepinsight into your operations.With more than 20 years of experience from automation, SCADA, MES and industrial IT we have seen that most factories across industries are not leveraging the power of machine learning. | $3.5M / Jun 22, 2023 | ||
| Jai Kisan is a fintech platform that provides sustainable financing for rural emerging markets. They help farmers understand their financial status through a next-generation/hyper-localized agriculture credit score digitizing their finances and farm capabilities for financial institutions. | $49M / Series B / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that candouble farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models. | $40M / Series B / Mar 21, 2022 | ||
| Agrofy is an online agrobusiness platform built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. It operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery,inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insuarance, loans, farmlands, jobs and vehicles.Additionally, Agrofy operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery, inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insurance, loans, farmlands, jobs, and vehicles.The company was founded in 2015, based in Rosario, Argentina. | $29M / Series C / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Boomitra is a leading carbon marketplace working with farmers and landowners worldwide to mitigate climate change through improved agricultural practices. The US-based start-up uses proprietary AI and satellite technology to monitor, report, and verify (MRV) soil organic carbon to a 30cm+ depth, without physical soil sampling, reducing measurementcosts by 99%. The process is cost-efficient, time effective, and scalable across various landholding sizes – enabling Boomitra to work globally: 5M+ acres, 150,000+ farmers, 4 continents, millions of credits sold to date. Farmers and landowners earn the vast majority of proceeds from each carbon credit sold, allowing them to re-invest in their farms and local communities. | $4M / Seed / Jun 22, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Yara Growth Ventures
Yara Growth Ventures is the venture investment team within Yara International ASA. The Yara Growth Ventures team invests in disruptive startups in the agri-food industry globally in order to advance the mission of responsibly feeding the world and protecting the planet. Learn more at www.yaragrowthventures.com
Yara Growth Ventures Contacts
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Björn Heinz
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Erkki Aaltonen
Managing Director
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George Roche
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Stian Nygaard
Investment Director
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FAQ
What does Erkki Aaltonen invest in?
Erkki Aaltonen invests primarily in AgTech, Agriculture and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Erkki Aaltonen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Erkki Aaltonen closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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