Rubio Impact Ventures

Rubio Impact Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, established in 2014. The firm specializes in mid venture, growth capital, late venture, and emerging growth investments, focusing on sectors such as nutrition, fitness, healthcare, and education technology. Rubio Impact Ventures is particularly dedicated to supporting enterprises that create positive social and environmental impacts, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations, including the young and the elderly. The firm typically targets equity investments ranging from €0.5 million to €8 million in companies based in the Netherlands. Unlike many venture capital firms, Rubio Impact Ventures does not engage with start-ups, infrastructure, real estate, incubators, consultants, or government-backed entities. Through its investments, the firm strives to foster innovation and sustainability in a variety of industries.

Tijl Hoefnagels

Venture Partner

Philips, Warner

Partner

Helmer Schukken

Managing Partner

Past deals in Benelux

Wakuli

Seed Round in 2022
Wakuli is a retailer specializing in specialty coffee, focusing on delivering freshly roasted beans and coffee powder directly from farmers to consumers. By eliminating intermediaries, Wakuli ensures that customers receive fresh coffee within a week of roasting, allowing them to experience the full range of flavors inherent in lighter roasts. The company is committed to fair pricing for farmers, enabling them to earn a better income while providing consumers with affordable, high-quality coffee. This direct-to-consumer model enhances the coffee-drinking experience while supporting sustainable practices in the coffee industry.

Winc Academy

Seed Round in 2022
Winc Academy is an international education platform that provides high-quality online courses focused on coding, technology, and data. The platform emphasizes accessibility to quality education by offering asynchronous learning combined with scalable personal mentoring. Through its data-driven approach, Winc Academy enables learners to advance their digital skills at their own pace, while also receiving interactive support from instructors. Catering to individuals, businesses, and government entities, the academy aims to boost career prospects for its users, empowering them to pursue roles as developers or data analysts.

30MHz

Series B in 2021
30MHz is a company that specializes in developing a sensory data platform aimed at enhancing agricultural and horticultural practices. Their primary product, ZENSIE, is designed to provide real-time monitoring of crops, allowing users to access comprehensive insights into environmental conditions. By offering historical context and live alerts, the platform enables clients to respond swiftly to changing circumstances, thereby improving productivity and reducing operational costs. Through its innovative technology, 30MHz aims to help businesses unlock hidden potential in their physical environments, ultimately leading to increased profit margins and more efficient resource management.

Skilllab

Seed Round in 2021
SkillLab is an Amsterdam-based social enterprise that develops a career guidance platform utilizing artificial intelligence to help individuals explore and articulate their skills. The platform is designed to empower employment and career services, fostering equitable labor markets by focusing on the universal language of skills. By employing tailored AI algorithms, SkillLab profiles the abilities of marginalized individuals in the workforce and connects them with relevant career and educational opportunities. This personalized, data-driven approach enhances users' career development and job placement prospects, particularly for those facing barriers in the labor market.

Mosa Meat

Series B in 2020
Mosa Meat B.V. is a food technology company based in Maastricht, the Netherlands, founded in 2013. The company specializes in the production of cultured meat by utilizing tissue engineering techniques. Mosa Meat harvests adult stem cells from the muscle tissue of living cows, allowing it to grow meat without the need for animal slaughter. This innovative process enables the production of products such as hamburgers and aims to reduce the environmental impact associated with traditional meat production. By creating real meat from animal cells, Mosa Meat contributes to a more sustainable food system, significantly lowering emissions, water usage, and land requirements while minimizing animal suffering.

Wakuli

Seed Round in 2020
Wakuli is a retailer specializing in specialty coffee, focusing on delivering freshly roasted beans and coffee powder directly from farmers to consumers. By eliminating intermediaries, Wakuli ensures that customers receive fresh coffee within a week of roasting, allowing them to experience the full range of flavors inherent in lighter roasts. The company is committed to fair pricing for farmers, enabling them to earn a better income while providing consumers with affordable, high-quality coffee. This direct-to-consumer model enhances the coffee-drinking experience while supporting sustainable practices in the coffee industry.

Vandersat

Series A in 2020
Vandersat specializes in providing satellite-derived climate data to monitor water availability and crop health globally. The company focuses on delivering high-resolution soil moisture information, which is vital for addressing the global water and food crisis. Its services include monitoring soil moisture, land temperature, and inundation, enabling clients to access accurate images of soil conditions anywhere on Earth. With daily observations, Vandersat empowers users to make informed decisions across various applications, such as crop management, weather prediction, and disaster prevention.

SkinVision

Venture Round in 2020
SkinVision is an awareness and tracking solution that supports individuals with the early recognition of melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and precancerous actinic keratosis. SkinVision is the first certified skin cancer application globally based on extensive clinical trials in partnership with the university clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich in 2013, published in the JEADV in 2014. The company has built up a customer portfolio of 1,200,000 users globally and a database of 3,5 million pictures of suspicious skin conditions.

Sama

Series A in 2019
Sama is a data annotation company that specializes in providing image, video, and sensor data validation for machine learning applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates additional locations in New York, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Kenya, Uganda, and Singapore. Sama's platform supports various industries, including transportation, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture, by delivering high-quality training data that enhances the development of accurate machine learning models. The company's offerings include automated annotation techniques such as bounding boxes, semantic segmentation, and video object training, which streamline the data preparation process. By partnering with leading organizations, Sama aims to advance AI capabilities while creating opportunities for low-income individuals through the digital economy.

Black Bear Carbon

Venture Round in 2018
Carbon black is a form of elemental carbon that is manufactured by the controlled vapour-phase pyrolysis and partial combustion of hydrocarbons. Several processes have been used to produce carbon black, including the oil-furnace, impingement (channel), lampblack, thermal (decomposition of natural gas) and acetylene (decomposition) processes. Carbon blacks are commonly referred to by the process or the source material from which they are made, e.g. furnace black, lampblack, thermal black, acetylene black and channel black. The different grades from the various processes have certain unique characteristics, but it is now possible to produce reasonable approximations of most of these grades using the oil-furnace process, by which more than 95% of the total output of carbon black is produced.

GoodFuels

Venture Round in 2018
GoodFuels is a provider of sustainable low carbon marine fuels and a prominent developer of sustainable fuels for heavy trucking and rail transport. Operating under the GoodFuels Marine and GoodFuels Road & Rail brands, the company supplies a synthetic diesel product known as HVO, produced from sustainable feedstock. This innovative fuel incorporates hydrogen, resulting in pure hydrocarbons that offer superior performance compared to conventional biodiesel. GoodFuels' offerings aim to enhance the efficiency of marine, road, and rail transport while significantly reducing local emissions, particularly in older engine models. By delivering renewable fuel sources to corporate clients and shipping companies, GoodFuels is positioned as a key player in the transition to sustainable transportation solutions.

Marqt

Venture Round in 2017
Marqt is a food retail company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in the sale of local, minimally processed food products. The company’s offerings include a variety of fruits, vegetables, bakery items, and meat and dairy products, catering to customers who prioritize quality and sustainability in their food choices. By focusing on fresh and local ingredients, Marqt aims to provide an alternative to conventional grocery stores, fostering a connection between consumers and the source of their food.

Bomberbot

Seed Round in 2017
Bomberbot is game created by Studio Krok, Dutch based company, in which players develop computational thinking skills and understand how computer programming languages work in a fun, visual and simple way, encouraging them to have a creative and limitless mind. Bomberbot aims to bring standard and affordable programming education to children all around the world.

GoodUp

Venture Round in 2016
GoodUp operates an employee engagement platform designed to assist companies in fostering social impact, diversity and inclusion, and well-being initiatives among their workforce. The platform provides various features, such as event management, gamification, and impact tracking, which enable organizations to effectively manage their employee engagement programs. By leveraging these tools, GoodUp aims to enhance employee morale and participation, ultimately supporting clients in achieving their sustainability objectives and driving long-term positive change for both businesses and society.

Afval Loont

Seed Round in 2016
Afval Loont is a Netherlands-based company that specializes in waste management and recycling services. It operates a program that incentivizes households to separate and return various types of household waste, including plastic, metal, beverage cartons, cardboard, textiles, electrical gadgets, and frying oil. By offering monetary rewards based on the weight of waste turned in, Afval Loont encourages consumers to participate in responsible waste disposal. This initiative not only helps in recycling efforts but also contributes to the circular economy by transforming a portion of household waste into raw materials for new products. Through its services, Afval Loont aims to foster community engagement and promote environmental sustainability.

Taxi Electric

Venture Round in 2014
Taxi Electric is a taxi service based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in electric vehicles. The company provides eco-friendly transportation solutions for a variety of clients, including businesses, hotels, healthcare providers, travel companies, and event organizers. In addition to servicing individual passengers, Taxi Electric focuses on offering reliable and sustainable transportation to airports and other key locations. The company's commitment to electric mobility aligns with growing environmental concerns and the demand for cleaner urban transportation options.
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