Mining tech startup Geopyörä has secured a seed investment from Chrysalix Venture Capital, marking a pivotal step in scaling its ore body intelligence platform. The company develops patented breakage testing technology that generates highly granular data on ore hardness—an often under-quantified variable that directly impacts throughput, recovery rates, energy consumption, and emissions in mining operations. Chrysalix, investing through its Industrial Innovation Fund, is backing the company not just financially but strategically, citing Geopyörä’s potential to address rising ore complexity and declining grades amid growing demand for critical minerals. The fresh capital will be used to expand commercial deployments, scale its global lab network, and accelerate development of its next-generation real-time ore characterization system, positioning Geopyörä to embed deeper into mine planning and processing workflows worldwide.
Geopyörä is a mining technology company focused on improving how operators understand and manage ore variability. The company has developed a patented breakage testing platform that generates detailed data on ore hardness using small-scale samples collected through existing assay and drilling workflows. This data is used to enhance geometallurgical models, supporting more accurate mine planning, throughput forecasting, and process optimization. Geopyörä works with mining companies and laboratory partners across multiple sites, and is developing a real-time ore characterization system aimed at integrating material behavior data more directly into operational decision-making.
“We chose to partner with Chrysalix because they are much more than a financial investor,” said Marcos Bueno, CEO of Geopyörä. “They understand mining technology, bring real ownership to the boardroom, and have the strategic discipline to help industrial companies scale. We were looking for a strategic partner who could help us grow for the long term, and Chrysalix was the clear fit.”
Chrysalix has made this investment through its latest Industrial Innovation Fund, reaffirming its commitment to driving transformative change in resource-intensive industries such as mining, metals, forestry, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, transportation and more.
“At Chrysalix, we recognize the significant challenges facing the mining industry today, including the need to significantly increase the supply of critical minerals to achieve electrification objectives while ore body complexity is increasing and grades are declining globally,” said Nicholas Andruschak, Vice President at Chrysalix. “We are excited to support Geopyörä and their groundbreaking ore body knowledge data platform, which directly addresses these challenges by providing highly accurate, spatially dense comminution information sets to optimize mine scheduling, throughput models and mill control systems. This innovation not only improves sustainability but also significantly improves critical mineral supply from existing mine assets and drives improved profitability and resilience for the sector.”
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