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Josh Schlisserman

Founder of Stealth

New York, New York

Overview 

Josh Schlisserman is the Co-Founder at Stealth, with a background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and project management. He has experience as an angel investor, general partner, and head of growth, with a focus on investing in early-stage startups in sectors like DeepTech and FinTech. Highlights of Josh's career include founding Stealth, where he leverages his skills in public speaking, leadership, and fundraising to support startups, and his role as a partner at Behind Genius Ventures, where he contributed to product strategy and networking within the industry.

Work Experience 

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Stealth

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - Current

    Public Safety Tech Backed by Caffeinated Capital, Basecase VC, Banter Capital, Basis Set Ventures, Brexton Pham and Daniel Lai (Series), Sumeet GajrI (Instabase), Sara Du (Alloy Automation), Bobby Lo (Vurb), Nico Ferrerya (Default.com), Daniel Mason (Anon.com), Abhay Venkatesh (Anduril), amongst others.

Angel Investor

  • Angel Investor

    2020

    Writing embarrassingly small checks into friends. Companies: Worlds, Rivet, Default.com, MobyTrade Funds: Wischoff Ventures and EV3

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Picks and Shovels

  • General Partner

    2022 - 2024

    Founded an operator led VC firm investing as early as possible (idea/pre-seed/seed) in tools and infrastructure. Representative Pre-Seed Investments: Anon.com, Daydream, Blueprint Finance, Skip, Masava

The Picks & Shovels Co. crafting tools for investors and traders of digital currencies and crypto assets.

Raised $163,000.00 from Meltem Demirors.

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Series

  • Chief Of Staff

    2021 - 2024

    Effortlessly automate payments, global payroll & HR, treasury management, contracts, and more— all within a modular & modern ERP alternative, the Series EOS. 1. Joined as Employee #1. Learned how to, and not to, scale from 0-1. 2. Built the playbook and processes as our 1st CS, BD, and Operations rep. I made lots of mistakes. 3. Over the past year, have led Sales and Strategy. I made even more mistakes, but learned a lot.

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Behind Genius Ventures

  • Partner

    2020 - 2022

    Being a "value add" VC and supporting Fund I portfolio post deployment.

Behind Genius Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage product-led companies.

Raised $1,660,000.00 from Coughdrop Capital, Tribe Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Bossa Invest.

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Vicarious, Inc.

  • Head of Growth

    2017 - 2018

    Learned what, "too early for the market", meant. Pondering the future of VR under the Apple Vision Pro.

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