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 & backed by Mubadala. RW3 is focused on early-stage investments in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications at the forefront of web3 and AI.
RW3 Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Education
Bachelor of Science - BS
2010 - 2014