Yara Growth Ventures
VC Fund
Oslo, Norway
Yara Growth Ventures is a VC fund in Oslo focused on AgTech and Agriculture. 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
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Yara Growth Ventures invests in
Stages Yara Growth Ventures invests in
Countries Yara Growth Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3.9M–$4M
- Series A
- $5.7M–$21M
- Series B
- $28M–$75M
Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 7 (28%)
- Agriculture 6 (24%)
- FinTech 4 (16%)
- Renewable Energy 4 (16%)
- Financial Services 4 (16%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (28%)
- Series A 4 (16%)
- Seed 3 (12%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
Country
- Norway 3 (12%)
- United States 3 (12%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Kenya 1 (4%)
- Brazil 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Björn Heinz
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Erkki Aaltonen
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
George Roche
Senior Investment Manager
|
Senior Investment Manager | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Stian Nygaard
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabanto is a farming-as-a-service performing row-crop field operations using low-cost autonomous systems. | Series B / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries. | $21.3M / Series A / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs. | $105.7M / Series D / Oct 13, 2025 | ||
| Hydrogen Mem-Tech aim is to make the green shift happen through our state-of-the-art hydrogen separation technology with carbon capture. | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit. | $52.7M / Series C / Oct 18, 2024 | ||
| Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 11, 2024 | ||
| Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels. | Seed / Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| AZANE Fuel Solutions develop and deliver bunkering solutions for ammonia fuel, enabling carbon free shipping. | $5.7M / Series A / Oct 25, 2023 | ||
| Verqor is a platform that disrupts the agricultural sector with finances and technology. We give farmers access to cashless credits that can be used for purchasing supplies and technology, everything through our platform. Verqor uses an alternative data-driven credit scoring criteria, for reaching financial inclusion and technifying the fields. | $3.9M / Seed / Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Verdagy is revolutionizing water electrolysis technology to facilitate large-scale green hydrogen production. Their solution achieves the lowest upfront capital costs and offers a competitive unit economics for production. Located in Moss Landing, California, Verdagy operates laboratory and pilot plant facilities to advance and rapidly scale itstechnology platform. | $73M / Series B / Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| See all 25 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Yara Growth Ventures invest in?
Yara Growth Ventures invests primarily in AgTech, Agriculture and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Yara Growth Ventures invest in?
Yara Growth Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$4M at Seed, $5.7M–$21M at Series A and $28M–$75M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Yara Growth Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Yara Growth Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Yara Growth Ventures?
The team at Yara Growth Ventures includes Björn Heinz (Investment Director), Erkki Aaltonen (Managing Director) and George Roche (Senior Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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