Joseph W. Bruzzesi

General Partner

2022

Venture capital fund anchored by The Raptor Group & backed by Mubadala. RW3 is focused on early-stage investments in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications at the forefront of web3 and AI.

Board Member

2023

Co-led seed round and led Series A round. First US headquartered K-Pop music label. Founding team is led by Nikki Semin Han, the former CEO of SM Entertainment. Nikki and 4 co-founders previously casted, trained, or managed 7 of the top 13 K-Pop artists of all time. Those artists sold 100M+ albums and have 54B+ streams on YouTube.

Board Member

2023

Led pre-seed and seed rounds. Nirvana Labs is the high-performance cloud purpose-built for Web3 — delivering bare metal speed, dedicated infrastructure, and radically cheaper bandwidth for the world’s most demanding blockchain workloads.

Advisor

2020

One of Ava Labs’/Avalanche’s first advisors from launch and initial funding from a16z. Avalanche is now a top 7 layer-1 blockchain protocol with a market cap >$10B.

Managing Director - Americas

2020 - 2022

First NY business hire & ultimately ran BitGo’s Americas business. In my 3.5 years at BitGo we: - Became the largest digital wallet provider in the world, securing more than 20% of all Bitcoin transactions globally (>$4T of transactions) - Built the largest regulated digital asset custodian, growing assets under custody from $0-65 billion within 24 months of launch - Launched the first cold storage secured/settled electronic trading platform - Created WBTC, the largest Bitcoin backed stablecoin (currently $10B+ market cap) on Ethereum - Raised >$50M from investors including Goldman Sachs, Valor Equity, Craft, Redpoint, Galaxy Digital, and DRW

Director

2018 - 2020

Director

2016 - 2018

One of the earliest employees (2nd US hire). Ultimately grew to 150+ people. We raised >$29M from investors including Battery Ventures, Viola Ventures, Liberty Interactive, and Mitsui Fudosan.

Associate

2015 - 2016

Analyst

2014 - 2015