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Bruce Gaynor-Long

Boston,MA

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

FOUNDING PARTNER

PATAGON MANAGEMENT
Palo Alto, CA
11.2021 - Current
  • Running a prop-trading firm specializing in special situations and distressed opportunities in decentralized finance - most commonly activist DAO investing, through which I push underperforming or criminally operated cryptocurrency entities to return funds to their investors
  • https://www.theblock.co/post/263924/a-dao-is-funding-a-lawsuit-against-its-own-founding-team Received a $300k grant from Aragon DAO to pursue legal action against its founders after deceitful restructurings
  • https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/05/04/judge-upholds-freeze-on-spartacusdaos-35m-in-lawsuit-served-via-discord-nft/ Won a motion in federal court to freeze $35 million in crypto assets from Spartacus’ founder

VENTURE INVESTOR

ROSEY CAPITAL
Monte Carlo, Monaco
08.2020 - Current
  • Founded a deal-by-deal venture capital entity to invest in disruptive technologies through the secondary market
  • Raised over $25m and deployed into startups disrupting cloud, cybersecurity, supply chain tech, food tech, prop tech, DeFi, and AI
  • Set up, fill, and close SPVs every 10 weeks (approx.), ranging in size from $500k to $8m
  • Developed a premier deal flow network to source the following portfolio: Stord, Selector AI, Elisity, Cadre, Remilk, AtScale, Stream Finance, Cohere, Circle

FINANCE INTERN (2022), ENGINEERING OPS INTERN (2024)

SAMBANOVA SYSTEMS
Palo Alto, CA
  • Finance Intern: Conducted research on competing chipmakers, analyzed their pipeline, and identified strategic gaps to penetrate market share - presented findings to exec team.
  • Engineering Ops Intern: Decommissioned hardware containing several SN proprietary chips (RDUs), FPGAs (RDU-c to manage voltages and other things), BMCs (to manage thermals, fans, etc.), PCIe switches, and cables.
  • In charge of writing code to power off and re-power nodes for SN DataScale, and re-racked them in the lab after QA testing.
  • Worked with the software QA team to optimize and aid in debugging their new trillion parameter LLM - Samba-1.

INVESTMENT INTERN (Summer 2024)

ATLANTIC BRIDGE VENTURES
Dublin, Ireland
  • Researched and met with founders, evaluated pitches, and presented conclusions to partner committee
  • Drafted reports detailing strategic pipeline and appetite of potential M&A partners for portfolio companies seeking to exit
  • Personally sourced deal flow and made LP introductions for the firm's new fund: AB-V

INVESTOR RELATIONS AND STRATEGY (Summer 2023)

NOD.AI
Santa Clara, CA
  • Created slide deck to be presented to all potential acquirers
  • Met with the Jeffries Bank team, tasked with brokering the AMD acquisition, and helped convey the company's story on behalf of the mostly technical founding team
  • Successfully exited via acquisition by AMD during tenure

FINANCE INTERN (Summer 2022)

NAVITAS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP
Los Angeles, CA
  • Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) research at a publicly traded company, reporting directly to VP Finance
  • In charge of outsourcing FP&A services to third-party, conducted zoom call interviews with suitable partners, and initiated negotiations
  • Sat in on Q2 earnings call and announcement of GeneSic acquisition

Education

BS: Business Administration - Financial Technology

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
05-2027

Skills

  • Fluent French & English
  • Venture capital secondaries
  • Proficient C, Python, Excel
  • Deal sourcing/Fundraising
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts cert
  • Prix d'Honneur award for outstanding academic achievement (Institut Le Rosey 2021)

Timeline

FOUNDING PARTNER

PATAGON MANAGEMENT
11.2021 - Current

VENTURE INVESTOR

ROSEY CAPITAL
08.2020 - Current

FINANCE INTERN (2022), ENGINEERING OPS INTERN (2024)

SAMBANOVA SYSTEMS

INVESTMENT INTERN (Summer 2024)

ATLANTIC BRIDGE VENTURES

INVESTOR RELATIONS AND STRATEGY (Summer 2023)

NOD.AI

FINANCE INTERN (Summer 2022)

NAVITAS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP

BS: Business Administration - Financial Technology

Northeastern University

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