Yara Ventures

Yara Ventures is an independent multi-strategy venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The firm operates as a 'smart money' investor and manages several distinct vehicles rather than a single fund: Yara Seed, an evergreen open-end fund focused on the seed stage with active investments concentrated in Spain, the United States and Israel; a food-tech and innovation fund covering early stage through Series A and B; and a fintech, insurtech, proptech and regtech fund also targeting early stage through Series A and B, generally as a co-investor. The firm's broader investment thesis covers artificial intelligence, blockchain and digital assets, media, financial technology and insurance technology, all areas where Dublin's status as a European hub for regulated financial services and tech R&D gives Yara natural deal flow. Disclosed portfolio companies include Verdocs, a US-based e-signature and document-workflow platform and Yara's most recent investment in April 2024, InnovoPro, an Israeli chickpea-protein food-tech company, and Architechtures, a Madrid-based AI-powered residential building-design platform. Yara Ventures should not be confused with Yara Growth Ventures, the Oslo-based corporate venture arm of Norwegian crop-nutrition giant Yara International; the two are unrelated organizations. Specific fund size figures and full team rosters are not publicly disclosed. By running multiple thematic vehicles across seed, food-tech and fintech and leveraging Dublin's position as a regulated-finance and tech hub, Yara Ventures backs early-stage founders in AI, blockchain, food-tech and financial technology.