Josh Schlisserman is a venture capital co-founder and operator who serves as Chief of Staff at Mastra, having previously wound down his startup Preside to join the company full-time. Josh Schlisserman's Twitter Score is 37 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #25,389 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Josh Schlisserman co-founded Picks and Shovels, an operator-led venture firm investing at pre-seed and seed stages in infrastructure, tooling, fintech, and crypto. After more than three years of active investing, the fund had backed 29 portfolio companies, of which 8 had shut down. Josh Schlisserman also co-founded Behind Genius Ventures alongside Paige Doherty, a fund that per Forbes launched in March 2021 and whose founders were included in Forbes's 2022 30 Under 30 Venture Capital cohort. Behind Genius Ventures drew limited partners and partners affiliated with Bain Capital Ventures, Tribe Capital, Bonfire Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as executives from Figma, Stripe, and Webflow.
Josh Schlisserman previously worked at Series Financial, a company characterized in contemporary coverage as building crypto-enabled financial infrastructure for institutions and corporations, where he served as Chief of Staff. He also formerly worked at LvlUp Ventures and is affiliated with the Recast Capital Enablement Program. Josh Schlisserman's account has 3,814 followers as of September 2026 and 2,796 posts. Josh Schlisserman has been mentioned by 17 accounts a total of 40 times.
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