Joseph W. Bruzzesi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Analyst

2014 - 2015

Summer Analyst

2012 - 2012