Senior Advisor, Capital & Strategy

Marco Rubin is a highly regarded investment professional within the venture capital industry with a track record of value creation along with extensive international experience supporting venerable ecosystem building organizations such as the World Bank, CRDF Global and The UN Foundation. In addition to his private market experience, he is a newly appointed board member to a solar fintech company called TAG (OTC) which will uplist onto NASDAQ in 2025.

Marco serves as a board representative to numerous privately held portfolio companies and leads seed and early-stage investments. He has held past leadership roles with funds recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine’s VC 100 rankings and has invested in over 350 portfolio cos. throughout his career in fields such as aerospace, energy, software, life sciences, cyber security, telecommunications, infrastructure, manufacturing and materials.

Marco is Executive Director and founding member of Virginia Venture Partners, the equity investment arm of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC). There he leads both the Commonwealth Energy Fund as well as The Aerospace Fund, which are equity investment vehicles serving Virginia’s fastest growing seed and early-stage startups. Since inception in 2004, the entire portfolio consists of over 350 direct equity investments earning the organization with the distinction as "Virginia's Most Active Investor" by CBInsights.

Marco also served as the executive in charge of the newly launched Fund of Funds Program at VIPC, where he led manager selection and allocation decisions for United States Treasury’s SSBCI Fund in Virginia. In this role, he led the team that selected with first-ever venture capital fund of funds program in 2024 with six venture capitalist firms selected for allocations.

Marco was also founder of Monumental Venture Partners, LLC (MVP) making investments in security, information technology, telecommunications, software and medical devices sectors. MVP produced acquisitions of portfolio companies to Dolby Labs and Level 3 Communications. Marco began his investment corporate career as the founding Director of MCI New Ventures.

Prior to starting his professional investment career, Marco worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. then providing professional consulting services to leaders in Fortune 500 and Federal markets including clients such as NASA Headquarters, DOD as well as Exxon Mobil.

Marco began his career at NASA training astronauts at the Johnson Space Center. He holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BSEE from the University of New Mexico. Marco has been a National Science Foundation SBIR reviewer as well as an NSF SBIR grant winner. He currently serves on the National Venture Capital Association’s energy working group.