# Martin Rubi

> Martin Rubi is a pre-seed investor at Zapia AI (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and Video Games. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Zapia AI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zapia-ai)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcala
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/draix
- Website: http://www.tryolabs.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tryolabs

Martin Rubi is a pre-seed investor at Zapia AI in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Video Games. Martin Rubi is based out of Montevideo and is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Zapia AI. Martin previously worked at MonkeyLearn as a Co-Founder. Martin Rubi attended the UNIVERSITY. NAME has been awarded/accomplished/certified

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $285k–$285k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 67% |
| Video Games | 2 | 67% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ephere Football | Build, manage, and own your football team in the metaverse | $285K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Ephere Football | Gaming Studio crafting blockchain gaming experiences for football fans. | $285K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| MonkeyLearn | MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API.All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists! |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Protocol Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/protocol-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tachyon by ConSensys Mesh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tachyon-by-consensys-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [C4+](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-f04c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Club del Inversor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/club-del-inversor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ConsenSys Mesh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/consensys-mesh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Zapia AI

VC Fund

Zapia, an AI personal assistant that uses WhatsApp to complete tasks, is how Latin Americans get through the day.

5 contacts available at Zapia AI.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Juan Olloniego | Head of Engineering & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-olloniego |
| Juan Pereira | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-pereira-pablo |
| Martin Rubi | Chairman & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-alcala |
| Nicolas Loeff | CTO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-loeff-3dd2 |
| Pablo Bocca | Lead AI Engineer & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pablo-rodr%C3%ADguez-bocca |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Rubi invest in?

Martin Rubi invests primarily in Blockchain, Video Games and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Martin Rubi's check size?

Martin Rubi typically joins rounds of $285k–$285k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Martin Rubi participates in.

### When did Martin Rubi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Rubi closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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