Erkki Aaltonen

Managing Director, Yara Growth Ventures

📍 Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 Finland
19
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17y
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Board Member
Feb 2025
Verqor is a fintech platform focused on the agricultural sector. With our platform, companies give their raw material suppliers the opportunity to obtain immediate and accessible financial products, while the company obtains all the purchase data from its suppliers and their crops with our monitoring system. In this way, with Verqor the company obtains: 1. Greater control over its supply chain. 2. More capable and financially empowered agro suppliers. With Verqor, companies generate a more profitable and sustainable business.
Board Member
Jun 2023
Intelecy is the world’s first No-code Industrial AI company. Our mission is to help businesses improve industrial processes, reduce waste, energy consumptions and costs. We provide software tools to the engineers in the factories that creates powerful machine learning models from production data in minutes – without a single line of code! No-code AI is a game-changer for the process and manufacturing industry, reducing the cost, risk and time needed to implement AI in a factory. Now the people closest to the production lines, those who know the processes, can find the hidden gold in the production data, and use AI to adjust the process in real-time. Intelecy is already loved by users in industries as diverse as energy, food & beverage, chemicals, minerals, metallurgy, and utilities. By using Intelecy the engineers reduces energy consumption, improve resource utilization, prevent emissions and unplanned downtime by combining their inhouse process knowledge and exitsting production data.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Nuestra historia comenzó en Argentina en 2015. Pero lo que realmente necesitás saber es que juntos podemos ser #ProtAGROnistas. Somos innovadores, disruptivos y transformadores. Somos un marketplace y un ecosistema de soluciones digitales que conecta toda la cadena de los agronegocios. Acercamos el campo a la ciudad, los compradores a los vendedores y las personas a las marcas. Creamos nuevas oportunidades y posibilidades. Con datos, tecnología y estrategia impulsamos las ventas de las empresas del sector y facilitamos la vida de miles de productores rurales. Trabajamos para marcar la diferencia. Ofrecemos semillas, insumos, equipamientos y todo lo que la comunidad agro necesita en nuestra plataforma moderna e innovadora. Estamos presentes en diversos países de América Latina y trabajamos para crear soluciones innovadoras que conecten al agro con el futuro. ¡Sumate y sé vos también un #ProtAGROnista!
Board Member
2021
Boomitra’s technology enables the monitoring, reporting, and verification of carbon content, nutrients, and moisture levels in the soil. Our tech is third-party validated for carbon markets, measuring at a 10m resolution without the need for physical soil sampling or lab tests. This enables cost-efficient and scalable soil sampling for farms of all sizes. Our farmer-first partnership model ensures carbon markets and climate finance drive returns for farmers, ranchers, and landowners. Through our network of global partners, we help farmers and ranchers adopt agricultural practices to increase carbon sequestration. Boomitra then quantifies the additional carbon captured and works with international standards bodies to generate Verified Emission Removals (VERs), commonly referred to as carbon credits. Boomitra sells the carbon credits to corporations and governments worldwide, enabling them to meet their sustainability goals. The majority of the proceeds from each carbon credit sold is given directly to the farmers, allowing them to re-invest in themselves and their communities. With over 5M+ acres currently under management, Boomitra is working with farmers to accelerate carbon removal on a gigaton-scale, while helping them grow more with less. Boomitra means “Friend of the Earth” in Sanskrit, and that is who we are! Learn more at boomitra.com
Board Member
Jun 2020
Boost Biomes is using the powerful social networks among microbes to provide novel, sustainable solutions to feed and heal people everywhere. Our technology differentiator is the development of a causal understanding of microbial interactions powerful enough to allow the rational construction of designer functional consortia. Our first products seek to reduce the enormous waste in agricultural products due to crop loss to fungal pests in the field and post-harvest. There is significant need for new biological, organic, safe biopesticides for crops; current chemical products have many challenges, including regulatory burden for growers and safety concerns of consumers.
Board Member
Dec 2018
A Mosaic company. Our diverse portfolio of products is backed by science and used worldwide to enhance yields, improve nutrient use efficiency, disease defense, biocontrol and abiotic stress. We’re committed to developing new soil health solutions that will provide advanced crop nutrition to customers around the globe and continue to help the world grow the food it needs.
Member of the Board
Feb 2016
A Nordic innovation transformed traditional, bulky Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy equipment into a convenient format to help agribusinesses with instant grain quality tracking. Handheld GrainSense Analyzer uses (NIR) spectroscopy technology found in laboratory instruments – in a battery-powered, handheld device. You get reliable protein, moisture, oil and carbohydrate contents in seconds from just a few kernels. The GrainSense Flow Analyzer has been developed for analyzing real-time grain quality in an environment where grains are actively flowing. Whether installed in an elevator of a combine harvester or in a silo/dryer, the GrainSense Flow Analyzer measures protein and moisture online during harvesting, processing or storage.
early stageFarming
Member of the Board
Sep 2013
Asqella, based in Finland, sells passive submillimetre-wave video cameras for loss prevention and physical security applications. With its innovative sensor technology, Asqella’s products provide customers with a solution capable of far superior performance compared to other technologies at a competitive unit cost. Our solution offers unparalleled imaging capabilities for stand-off and walk-by applications: - Passive – No health risks, greater acceptance - Multi-spectral – Consistently superior performance in all conditions - No anatomical details revealed – Less intrusive - Real-time frame rate – High throughput - High resolution – Excellent detection statistics - Full-body field of view – No missed objects - Capable of covert surveillance - Easily transportable
Board Member
2012
Member of the Board
Jul 2011
We want to make technology invisible and seamlessly integrated. Were here to disrupt hardware - turning conventional structures into smart, natural, and interactive surfaces without sacrificing sustainability. How do we do this? We develop and license IMSE® (Injection Molded Structural Electronics) technology which enables our customers to create thin, 3D, smart surfaces with integrated and intelligent electronic functions: illumination, touch, and connectivity. Use cases are diverse and cover industries from automotive, aviation, smart home, and more.
Member of the Board
Oct 2010
Stay In Control Envault makes safeguarding your company data effortless. We offer a range of extremely easy to use encryption products that guarantee the integrity of your digital assets. A military grade encryption against unauthorized use with zero effect on your daily routines. Your digital property visible to your eyes only.
Member of the Board
Sep 2010
Hookie Technologies Ltd develops new kinds of products and services for motivating children and young people to physical exercise. EDIT... Unfortunately Hookie did not manage to leap over chasm to success. However, the legacy of Hookie still lives within other companies in the form of technology and service concepts originally created at Hookie.
Member of the Board
Sep 2010
Aivon Oy is your partner in ultrasensitive measurements especially with superconducting sensors and low-noise readout electronics. In addition to standard sensors and electronics we offer custom design, fabrication, assembly and testing to meet your R&D requirements.
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2025
Board Member
Feb 2025
Verqor is a fintech platform focused on the agricultural sector. With our platform, companies give their raw material suppliers the opportunity to obtain immediate and accessible financial products, while the company obtains all the purchase data from its suppliers and their crops with our monitoring system. In this way, with Verqor the company obtains: 1. Greater control over its supply chain. 2. More capable and financially empowered agro suppliers. With Verqor, companies generate a more profitable and sustainable business.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Intelecy is the world’s first No-code Industrial AI company. Our mission is to help businesses improve industrial processes, reduce waste, energy consumptions and costs. We provide software tools to the engineers in the factories that creates powerful machine learning models from production data in minutes – without a single line of code! No-code AI is a game-changer for the process and manufacturing industry, reducing the cost, risk and time needed to implement AI in a factory. Now the people closest to the production lines, those who know the processes, can find the hidden gold in the production data, and use AI to adjust the process in real-time. Intelecy is already loved by users in industries as diverse as energy, food & beverage, chemicals, minerals, metallurgy, and utilities. By using Intelecy the engineers reduces energy consumption, improve resource utilization, prevent emissions and unplanned downtime by combining their inhouse process knowledge and exitsting production data.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Nuestra historia comenzó en Argentina en 2015. Pero lo que realmente necesitás saber es que juntos podemos ser #ProtAGROnistas. Somos innovadores, disruptivos y transformadores. Somos un marketplace y un ecosistema de soluciones digitales que conecta toda la cadena de los agronegocios. Acercamos el campo a la ciudad, los compradores a los vendedores y las personas a las marcas. Creamos nuevas oportunidades y posibilidades. Con datos, tecnología y estrategia impulsamos las ventas de las empresas del sector y facilitamos la vida de miles de productores rurales. Trabajamos para marcar la diferencia. Ofrecemos semillas, insumos, equipamientos y todo lo que la comunidad agro necesita en nuestra plataforma moderna e innovadora. Estamos presentes en diversos países de América Latina y trabajamos para crear soluciones innovadoras que conecten al agro con el futuro. ¡Sumate y sé vos también un #ProtAGROnista!
Limited Partner, Board Observer
2021
SP Ventures is a leading early stage investment fund for Ag, Food and Climate Tech in Latin America, with over 10 years of track-record & experience. We partner with visionary founders who share our passion for transforming food and agriculture. Together we design & build a new, more sustainable and climate-friendly, resilient food system. Our portfolio includes investments in cutting-edge technologies in AgFintech, Marketplaces, eSupply Chain Tech, Logtech, Biologicals, AgEdTech and Carbon Market innovations, among others. Our primary focus is to unlock the potential of agfood technologies in Latin America, converging the region into a hub for both food production and disruptive technologies. We want to be valued partners for our portfolio companies, offering access to market, talent, strategic-knowledge and diversified capital to help them achieve their goals.
Board Member
2021
Boomitra’s technology enables the monitoring, reporting, and verification of carbon content, nutrients, and moisture levels in the soil. Our tech is third-party validated for carbon markets, measuring at a 10m resolution without the need for physical soil sampling or lab tests. This enables cost-efficient and scalable soil sampling for farms of all sizes. Our farmer-first partnership model ensures carbon markets and climate finance drive returns for farmers, ranchers, and landowners. Through our network of global partners, we help farmers and ranchers adopt agricultural practices to increase carbon sequestration. Boomitra then quantifies the additional carbon captured and works with international standards bodies to generate Verified Emission Removals (VERs), commonly referred to as carbon credits. Boomitra sells the carbon credits to corporations and governments worldwide, enabling them to meet their sustainability goals. The majority of the proceeds from each carbon credit sold is given directly to the farmers, allowing them to re-invest in themselves and their communities. With over 5M+ acres currently under management, Boomitra is working with farmers to accelerate carbon removal on a gigaton-scale, while helping them grow more with less. Boomitra means “Friend of the Earth” in Sanskrit, and that is who we are! Learn more at boomitra.com
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