Advisor
Juan Bruce
Startup founder and innovation leader with two decades of experience bringing emerging technologies to market. Recently focused on AI and blockchain.
Startup founder and innovation leader with two decades of experience bringing emerging technologies to market. Recently focused on AI and blockchain.
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Experience
Vemba
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Exit
Maker Studios
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Matador Pala Capital
Investot
• Market analysis, sourcing, diligence, modeling, building investment thesis, and investing on behalf of multiple family offices in media tech, gaming, consumer, AI, web3,... more B2B SaaS, fintech and deep tech.
• Extensive relationships within VC, corporate venture, family office, and startup ecosystems; actively participating in top-tier investor events including Upfront Summit, Medici Network, SALT, TED, Stanford AI and Stanford Blockchain.
• Extensive relationships within VC, corporate venture, family office, and startup ecosystems; actively participating in top-tier investor events including Upfront Summit, Medici Network, SALT, TED, Stanford AI and Stanford Blockchain.
Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer
• Applied AI and data-driven experimentation to scale the Solana Web3 social network startup to over 1M MAU.
• Led product strategy, go-to-market, partnerships and developer... more ecosystem to drive strong organic adoption.
• Architected generative AI agents and developed an SDK enabling partners to create, test, and deploy social AI agents.
• Led product strategy, go-to-market, partnerships and developer... more ecosystem to drive strong organic adoption.
• Architected generative AI agents and developed an SDK enabling partners to create, test, and deploy social AI agents.
NAX
Head of Strategy & Innovation
• Leader of AI and blockchain based digital transformation, corporate venture programs and startup incubation for Fortune 500 companies at the NAX venture studio spun out... more of BCG Digital Ventures.
• Managed relationships, pitched C-suite stakeholders, and drove over $100 million in new investments.
• Led a $75M AI and blockchain focused venture incubation program for a major insurance company.
• Facilitated workshops with corporate partners on design thinking, digital transformation and new business creation.
• Led multiple cross-functional teams of 20-25 designers, engineers, business analysts, data scientists, marketers, salespeople, and executives to conceive and build new fintech and AI products and businesses.
• Managed relationships, pitched C-suite stakeholders, and drove over $100 million in new investments.
• Led a $75M AI and blockchain focused venture incubation program for a major insurance company.
• Facilitated workshops with corporate partners on design thinking, digital transformation and new business creation.
• Led multiple cross-functional teams of 20-25 designers, engineers, business analysts, data scientists, marketers, salespeople, and executives to conceive and build new fintech and AI products and businesses.
Aenigma Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
• Founded and led a top-performing crypto investment fund with autonomous trading systems, achieving top 10% returns.
• Structured the fund, formed investment thesis, built... more operations, engineering, investment and trading teams, developed NLP social listening, and ML trading systems, managed investor relations, sourcing and acquisition into NAX Group.
• Structured the fund, formed investment thesis, built... more operations, engineering, investment and trading teams, developed NLP social listening, and ML trading systems, managed investor relations, sourcing and acquisition into NAX Group.
Downey Ventures
Founding Partner
• Founded the digital division of Robert Downey Jr.’s company to develop new digital businesses and strategic partnerships.
• Pioneered the celebrity venture capital model... more with Robert Downey Jr.’s media, gaming and technology fund.
• Structured and formed investment thesis, marketed the fund, sourced, and evaluated startups and worked with portfolio companies to leverage Team Downey strategic expertise and network.
• Generated 4x returns in 5 years, through strategic media investments, including notable exits such as Maker Studios.
• Pioneered the celebrity venture capital model... more with Robert Downey Jr.’s media, gaming and technology fund.
• Structured and formed investment thesis, marketed the fund, sourced, and evaluated startups and worked with portfolio companies to leverage Team Downey strategic expertise and network.
• Generated 4x returns in 5 years, through strategic media investments, including notable exits such as Maker Studios.
Exit
Epoxy.tv
Founder & CEO
• Founded, operated and exited the leading social video SaaS platform startup leveraging machine learning to optimize digital distribution and audience engagement across YouTube,... more Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat.
• Served as the founding product manager and assembled high-performing, data-driven engineering, marketing, and business teams with a culture of user-centric design, rapid iteration, and continuous product releases.
• Led business development and strategic partnerships, scaling adoption to 90+ studios and 90K+ creators, driving 15B+ monthly video views at the time of acquisition.
• Served as the founding product manager and assembled high-performing, data-driven engineering, marketing, and business teams with a culture of user-centric design, rapid iteration, and continuous product releases.
• Led business development and strategic partnerships, scaling adoption to 90+ studios and 90K+ creators, driving 15B+ monthly video views at the time of acquisition.
Team Downey
President, Digital
Founded the digital division of Robert Downey Jr's production company, Team Downey. Led the development of digital projects and tech partnerships. Taught traditional film... more and TV teams to work on transmedia projects that included gaming, social media and online video. Introduced Design Thinking, iterative design and technical product management techniques into theatrical development to increase efficiency and creative output.
Continuum
Vice President, Los Angeles Studio
• Launched and developed Continuum’s west coast innovation and digital transformation practice including product strategy, design, engineering, UX, and branding in the areas... more of consumer, enterprise, CPG, retail, media, and mobility.
Brand Sense Partners
Director
• Partnered with William Morris to conceive, design and launch new technology and consumer products leveraging entertainment, celebrity and media brands including Electronic... more Arts, Britney Spears and Interscope Records.
Product Designer & Project Lead
Led multidisciplinary teams of 5-10 designers, engineers, researchers and strategists to create products, and services for companies including Apple, BMW, Handspring, Prada,... more Sony, Toyota and Tivo. Specialization in design research, product strategy, UX, UI, hardware/software integrations, mobile, automotive and retail tech. Focused on early stage emerging technologies requiring market research, product definition and iteration to find product/market fit. Led IDEO U workshops in Design Thinking.
BMW Technology Office USA
Consulting Engineer
Researched, designed and engineered prototypes in the areas of in-vehicle computing interfaces, software, telematics, entertainment, navigation, digital security and mobile... more device integration.
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1. Sold and led a $75M AI and blockchain focused digital transformation and venture incubation program to a fortune 500 company.
2. Built the leading Solana web3 social network and scaled it to 1M MAU and strong retention.
3. Founded and led a top-performing crypto investment fund with autonomous trading systems, achieving top 10% returns.
4. Founded, operated and exited the leading social video SaaS platform startup scaling adoption to 90+ studios and 90K+ creators, driving 15B+ monthly video views.
5. Achieved +4x returns for Robert Downey's venture fund Downey Ventures. Invested in leading digital media startups including Maker Studios (exit to Disney).
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