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Paxos Ventures — Pre-Seed VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)

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Paxos Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm investing in Fintech. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Partners
10 listed
AUM
$1B
Stage
Pre-Seed
Sectors
Fintech
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

AUM

$1.0B

Team

10 partners

Investment Thesis

Strategic investor focused on digital asset infrastructure, payments, and settlement use cases. Appears in stablecoin settlement rounds and would understand programmable settlement primitives well.

How Paxos Ventures invests

Paxos Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Fintech.

Paxos Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1B in assets under management. Our records include 1 fund raised by the firm.

Partners & Team

JG

Josh Giles

Director, Engineering

U

Unknown

Investment lead

Stablecoins
Payments
WH

Walter Hessert

Head of Strategy

RP

Ryan Parks

Head of Audit

CC

Charles Cascarilla

CEO

LR

Laurent Reichert

Chief Compliance and Risk Officer

AT

Asset Tarabayev

Head of Brokerage Product

LD

Leighton Dellinger

Chief Compliance and Risk Officer

PJ

Patrik Johansson

Head of Compliance

EG

Emre Goksu

Director, Partner Management

Industry Focus

Invests In

Fintech

Funds

Paxos Ventures

$1.0B2021
investing

Recent Activity

Raised Paxos Ventures ($1000M)

2021 · fund records

How to pitch Paxos Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Josh Giles, Director, Engineering.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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