Victor Pascucci III's path to venture investing started in law, where he served as counsel to senior USAA technology, security, fraud, and operations leaders before building and leading USAA's $330M corporate venture program and its early bitcoin integration effort, and along the way he was an early investor in companies like Coinbase, ID.me, MX, Personal Capital, TRUECar, and Clearcover while sitting on boards including Cemvita, Osmoses, Sapphire Technologies, Highwood Emissions, Sprout Social, and Snapsheet. He's also built a reputation in Chicago's innovation community through board roles with ChicagoNext and P33 and his time at Lightbank, chaired the NVCA Education Committee for the Corporate Venture Group, served on the NVCA advisory board, was featured in Andrew Romans' book on corporate venture capital, and now writes about how lessons from banking and insurance innovation can apply to energy and climate investing at IA Capital.