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Rubio Impact Ventures

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We're Rubio, a leading impact venture fund. We partner with founders building companies that matter, the kind where profit and purpose combine for maximum impact. Why? The future's most valuable businesses will be tackling humanity's biggest headaches.

Solid Growth: A short-term perspective isn’t our style. We prefer to play (and win) the long game, helping you build your business sustainably.

Strong Impact: We live to change the system. We’re excited by impact ambitions too big to ignore and too important to fail.

Genuine Partners: We go fast alone, but further together. You’ll have our experience on call 24/7, but you’re always behind the wheel.

Growth capital to turn impact vision into velocity

Early stage growth capital for founders reshaping industries with heart, vision, and intelligence (human and artificial alike!). We’re guided by our thematic areas:

  • People Power: Strengthening social cohesion through wellbeing, education, and inclusion

  • Planet Paradise: Driving net zero transitions in energy, industry, and agrifood

We’ll partner with you to nail the fundamentals that unlock your audacious impact vision.

Check out our investment criteria and get in touch if you think we’d be a good match.

At Rubio, we do VC differently

We believe the success of an impact VC is driven by equally ambitious impact and financial goals. That’s why we’re one of the only funds in the world where 100% of our performance fees are directly linked to (externally validated) quantifiable impact targets.

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