Sandbox Industries

The fund focuses on strategic investment with key interest in Insurtech, Healthtech, Foodtech and technologies that help improve consumers’ health, wealth and wellness. Fuchsia VC provides not only financial support, but also strategic partnership into its group’s ecosystem. The vision and passion of the fund is to improve the quality and longevity of life through innovation and technology.

We combine investment focus with active and specialized support to help you succeed. Faber is a founder-first firm looking to invest in teams with a global vision starting from Europe. We are looking for: Talent driven by mission and values: Starting a company is a challenging and complex problem. That’s why we believe in partnering with highly specialized tech teams aiming to build a diverse, balanced and inclusive culture with an open mindset, endless curiosity and relentless ambition to make a positive impact and conquer the world. The future is powered by deep tech: Our thesis is based on the belief that entrepreneurship is a core engine for innovation and positive change and deep technology is a powerful accelerator. We focus on the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. We offer specialized funds with dedicated investment teams and expert advisor networks to actively help founders build global companies powered by AI/data, climate/ocean technologies, or Web3. Impactful solutions for large industries: AI/data science, climate technologies and Web3 will be transformative across industries, adding unprecedented velocity, value and positive impact to economies and societies at large. We believe that using deep tech to solve some of the most urgent and valuable challenges will result in innovation across industries, from healthcare to financial services, from manufacturing to agro-food and retail. However, we trust your insight and expertise to guide us into large opportunities in any relevant industry. Pre-series A: Our initial ticket size ranges from €100K to €1,5M. We invest with industry standard terms and specialize in helping companies become series A ready. While we tend to lead, we have an extensive track record of partnering with VCs and angels in Europe and the US. Iberia as a scale-up launchpad: Actively looking for companies starting from Iberia with a firm belief in local tech talent and infrastructure potential to become a world-class benchmark, and selectively investing in companies across Europe. We know what it takes to go from pre-seed to series A. Expertise Resident core team with entrepreneurial expertise and specialized board-level support. Expert advisory network of founders, professors, scientists and industry execs available for problem solving on demand, coaching and continuous support. Value-added Working with founders on: company setup, back-office, legal and finance, hiring and team formation, business planning and development, product tech/strategy, structuring rounds of financing. Modus Operandi Our collaboration with founders and teams starts before an investment is even made. Our continuous work includes special purpose workshops and dedicated sprints, thematic portfolio meetups, promoting cross-company synergies, sharing best practices, and industry connections. We focus on the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. AI/data Our thesis is based on the belief that industry digital transformation at scale will be driven by data-centric companies, more specifically with the application of breakthrough technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP, Voice, Computer Vision or Distributed Databases, among others. We are looking for science-driven founders developing AI-powered vertical industry solutions or cross-industry next-gen AI/Data management platforms to increasing intelligence, automation or transparency across value chains. Climate/ Ocean tech Our thesis is based on the belief that deep tech is an urgent accelerator of innovation for high positive impact on ocean sustainability, climate action and decarbonization of the global economy. We are looking for the new generation of mission-driven entrepreneurs - "blue pioneers" - developing innovative climate/ ocean technology solutions with global ambition in areas such as blue biotech, food and feed from the ocean, ocean health, earth intelligence or the decarbonization of multiple industries. Web3 Our thesis is based on the belief that the decentralized web represents the next major iteration of the internet and will disrupt multiple industries. We are looking for the new generation of entrepreneurs working on hard engineering such as cryptography, blockchain technologies or distributed systems to build new protocols, tools, infrastructure services or applications to drive Web3 use cases.

We invest in transformative companies that advance new ways to extend health span, develop new approaches that change the ways information is processed, and answer complex challenges in sustainability. Together with Ajinomoto’s community of scientists and engineers, we enable startup founders to build and scale solutions for the future.

We are experienced venture capital investors who have been at the forefront of impact investing since 1999. We are passionate about generating extraordinary results, creating positive changes, and partnering with visionaries who combine these two. Our team has invested in over 70 ventures, bringing time-tested perspective and expertise to partnerships with entrepreneurs. We are ready and eager to build something special together.

With our ambitious team of highly customer-focused entrepreneurs, we are committed to putting our expertise to work and strive to make an impact. We are part of Migros - one of the largest retailers in Europe - with the mission to build ventures and invest in companies in a multitude of relevant areas, in particular, Food & Beverage, Fintech, Last-Mile, Digital Health, Sustainability & Circular Economy as well as Commerce & Shopping. What we doINVESTING: We invest in growing companies to scale their operations and build strong businesses by leveraging Migros’ assets, with the goal to make them key players in their category. BUILDING: From concept to creation, we are building ventures in a fast-paced environment to grasp opportunities that shape our future or to enter specific target markets that are not accessible otherwise. SUPPORTING: We are a team of experts and founders that provide operational, hands-on support and growth capital to our portfolio companies to ensure sustainable growth and help them to get to the next level.

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.