Joseph W. Bruzzesi
General Partner at RW3 Ventures
Miami Beach, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Venture capital fund anchored by The Raptor Group. Investments include: Titan Content, Cornami, Gunzilla Games, Mysten Labs, Illumix, Bloxtel, Source Network, Emptyvessel, Rymedi, TAP Protocol, CAT Labs, Breach Insurance, Nirvana Labs, Artifact, Bazooka Tango, Blockcast.
RW3 Ventures is a venture capital firm.
Board Member
2023
Co-led seed round with Dreamus, the largest K-Pop music distribution company. First US headquartered K-Pop music label. Founding team is led by Nikki Semin Han, the former CEO of SM Entertainment. Nikki and 4 creative co-founders previously casted, trained, or managed 7 of the top 13 K-Pop artists of all time. Those artists sold over 100M albums and have 54B+ streams on YouTube.
Advisor
2020
One of Ava Labs’/Avalanche’s first pre-launch advisors. Avalanche is now a top 7 layer-1 blockchain protocol with a market cap >$5B.
AVA is a blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility.
Raised $290,000,000.00 from CMS Holdings, Dragonfly, Polychain, Republic Crypto, Collab+Currency, Three Arrows Capital, Lvna Capital, Digital Asset Capital Management and Bitmain.
Board Member
2023
Led pre-seed and seed round. Nirvana Labs is the first full-stack cloud platform crafted to meet the unique demands of web3 companies. Nirvana's offerings include a powerful bare metal cloud computing platform, highly reliable load-balanced RPC nodes, and enterprise-grade dedicated nodes.
Nirvana Labs offers cloud solutions designed for blockchain infrastructure and services.
Raised $5,200,000.00 from Third Earth, Hash3, Play Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, BitGo, RW3 Ventures, Raptor Group, Blizzard Fund, RW3 Ventures and Hash3.
Board Observer
2023
Led Series A. Rymedi’s blockchain platform powers secure healthcare data transfer while meeting compliance standards worldwide. With over 1 million lives on the platform in over 1,200 locations in the US, Africa, and Australia, Rymedi is a global leader in decentralized science.
Rymedi (pronounced Remedy) provides cloud-based health solutions that are patient-centered and user friendly.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Founderville.VC, RW3 Ventures, Blizzard Fund, White Star Capital and Blockchange Ventures.
Advisor
2022
First investor (personally) & day one advisor. Codex Energy partners with top US oil & gas producers to convert stranded natural gas into power for the most profitable & carbon negative off-grid data centers for Bitcoin mining and high performance computing.
Codex Energy designs, builds and operates high-performance computing (HPC) datacenters powered by stranded energy.
Managing Director - Americas
2020 - 2022
First institutional business hire & eventually ran The Americas. 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
BitGo is a digital asset trust and security company that provides custody, financial services, and core infrastructure for investors.
Raised $171,500,000.00 from Brink’s.
Director
2016 - 2018
One of the earliest employees (2nd US hire) at CrediFi, which ultimately grew to 150+ people. We raised >$29M from investors including Battery Ventures, Viola Ventures, Liberty Interactive, and Mitsui Fudosan.
Associate
2015 - 2016
CredFi is a technology company empower commercial real estate professionals with the data and insights they need to make informed decisions.
Raised $29,000,000.00 from OurCrowd, Battery Ventures, Viola Ventures, Liberty Technology Venture Capital, Maverick Ventures Israel and Mitsui Fudosan.
Analyst
2014 - 2015
Summer Analyst
2012 - 2012
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BS
2010 - 2014