# Kielo Growth

> Kielo Growth is a VC fund in Oulu backing AgTech and Farming. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Finland
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kielo-growth
- Website: http://kielo.com/

Kielo Growth is an incubator company for startups with hardware prototyping requirements. Typically these companies start from home garages or university laboratories. This is why Kielo is seen as a ”garage incubator”.To accelerate member startups, Kielo provides premises, facilities, business services, seed funding, business advisors,networking opportunities, and startup community. Kielo builds on both knowledge of seasoned business experts of Kielo staff, but also on the shared knowledge pool of member companies. Goal is to build new international success stories to the Oulu region. Hot topics currently at Kielo are Cybersecurity, UAVs and drones, Robotics, Sensors, Measurement devices, Embedded, Games and Gamification.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 1 | 100% |
| Farming | 1 | 100% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 100% |
| Health Diagnostics | 1 | 100% |
| Internet of Things | 1 | 100% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ari Takanen | Co Founder, Startup Advisor, Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ari-takanen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anicare Oy | Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets. | $251.1K | Seed | Dec 01, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kielo Growth invest in?

Kielo Growth invests primarily in AgTech, Farming and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Kielo Growth?

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### Who are the partners at Kielo Growth?

The team at Kielo Growth includes Ari Takanen (Co Founder, Startup Advisor, Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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