Mischief is an operator-backed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded by experienced entrepreneurs including Plaid CEO Zach Perret and Lauren Farleigh. The firm invests $1-5M in pre-seed and seed-stage software companies across sectors and geographies, primarily leading rounds.
34% of their portfolio is in Fintech. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (3 deals in the last 12 months vs 5 prior). Their most common stage is seed (45% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $15.5M (across 35 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
32
Fund Size
$80M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
3
Team
Shensi Ding
Founder & CEO, Merge
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
38 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Light Energy | Unknown | $46M | Sep 2026 |
 Plot | Seed | — | Jun 2026 |
 DataLane | Series A | $22M | Dec 2025 |
 Ambrook | Series A | $26.1M | Jul 2025 |
| CCoworker.ai | Pre-Seed | $13M | May 2025 |
| CCoworker.ai | Seed | $13M | May 2025 |
 Multiply | Series A | $23.5M | Mar 2025 |
| Ambrook | Series A | $26.1M | Jan 2025 |
 Cardless | Series B | $30M | Nov 2024 |
 iVerify | Series A | $12M | Jun 2024 |
 UserHub | Pre-Seed | $3.2M | Apr 2024 |
| iVerify | Seed | $12M | Jan 2024 |
 Authentic Insurance | Seed | $5.5M | Sep 2023 |
 Stelo | Unknown | $6M | Jan 2023 |
 Opkit | Seed | $1M | Jan 2023 |
 Proper | Seed | $4.3M | Jun 2022 |
 Sudozi | Seed | $4.3M | May 2022 |
 Rinsed | Series A | $12M | May 2022 |
 Rutter | Series A | $27M | Mar 2022 |
 Rutter | Series A | $27M | Mar 2022 |
 Ascend.io | Series A | $30M | Jan 2022 |
 Ascend | Series A | $30M | Jan 2022 |
 Paysail | Seed | $4M | Jan 2022 |
 Ascend | Series A | $30M | Jan 2022 |
| HHighlight.xyz | Seed | $11M | Jan 2022 |
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Top Co-Investors
BoxGroup11 shared
Y Combinator10 shared
First Round Capital6 shared
Basis Set Ventures5 shared
Distributed Ventures4 shared
Index Ventures4 shared
Susa Ventures4 shared
FirstMark Capital4 shared
Abstract Ventures4 shared
Homebrew4 shared
Gokul Rajaram4 shared
Thrive Capital3 shared
Soma Capital3 shared
Bedrock3 shared
Founders Fund3 shared
XYZ Venture Capital2 shared
Coinbase Ventures2 shared
Redpoint Ventures2 shared
Pear VC2 shared
Haystack2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026