I build ventures, and win their funding.
I'm Francesco Rubino, a founder and venture builder in Barcelona. I join founders and corporate teams as a co-founder, take ideas from 0 to 1, and secure the non-dilutive EU funding to scale them.
His strategic and analytical thinking has consistently driven success for his clients. Francesco is not only a brilliant professional but also a person of great integrity and dedication.
01 / Practice
One outcome: a real business that ships, and the funding to grow it.
Venture Building
From 0 to 1. Opportunity mapping, business model, MVP, go-to-market, and open innovation programmes. I work alongside your team as a co-founder, not a consultant.
Explore → ·02EU Funding
Keep your equity. Horizon Europe, EIC, national instruments. As a certified EU Expert Evaluator for the European Commission, I write proposals from inside the scoring rubric, the same one I use when judging other applications.
Explore → ·03AI Advisory
Ship AI systems that run in production. From automation assessment and roadmap to hands-on implementation with n8n, CRM integrations, and custom LLM pipelines.
Explore →02 / Selected work
Ventures, programmes & funded rounds, shipped.
03 / How I work
No retainers, no decks. Just outcomes.
Discovery call
30 minutes, free. You tell me what you're building or trying to fund. I tell you honestly whether I can help and what the engagement would look like.
Scoped proposal
Fixed scope, fixed fee. Every engagement starts with a clearly defined deliverable and timeline, no open-ended retainers, no surprise invoices. Typical engagements run 6 weeks to 6 months.
Embedded execution
I work inside your team. Not as an external advisor who shows up with slides. As a co-builder who owns the process alongside you, from strategy through to shipped product or funded proposal.
Let's build the next one.
30 minutes, no pitch deck required. Tell me what you're building, or what you're trying to fund, and I'll tell you honestly if I can help.