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Investor profile

Josh Schlisserman

General Partner (Picks & Shovels); Founding Partner (BGV), Picks & Shovels

About

Josh Schlisserman is a solo GP at Picks & Shovels who focuses exclusively on picks and shovels infrastructure for crypto and fintech while serving as employee #1 and Chief of Staff at Series, a crypto-enabled financial infrastructure company, giving him live operator context inside the type of companies he backs. He's known for writing very small $0-100k pre-seed and seed checks as true first money in, often committing before a lead is set, and has built his reputation through an unusually academic obsession with the business of VC itself rather than just founder access. Josh Schlisserman is a solo GP at Picks & Shovels who focuses exclusively on picks and shovels infrastructure for crypto and fintech while serving as employee #1 and Chief of Staff at Series, a crypto-enabled financial infrastructure company, giving him live operator context inside the type of companies he backs. He's known for writing very small $0-100k pre-seed and seed checks as true first money in, often committing before a lead is set, and has built his reputation through an unusually academic obsession with the business of VC itself rather than just founder access.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
Web3
Crypto
AI
Devtools
FinTech
Data

Investment details

Avg check size$100K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA