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.
33% of their portfolio is in Fintech. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months vs 3 prior). Their most common stage is series-a (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $16.7M (across 25 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
26
Fund Size
$80M
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
3
Team
Shensi Ding
Founder & CEO, Merge
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
27 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Light Energy | Unknown | $46M | Sep 2026 |
 Plot | Seed | — | Jun 2026 |
 DataLane | Series A | $22M | Dec 2025 |
| CCoworker.ai | Pre-Seed | $13M | May 2025 |
| MMultiply Mortgage | 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 |
 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 |
 Rutterapi | Series A | $27M | Mar 2022 |
 Rutter | Series A | $27M | Mar 2022 |
 Ascend.io | Series A | $30M | Jan 2022 |
 Ascend | Series A | $30M | Jan 2022 |
| PPaysail | Seed | $4M | Jan 2022 |
| HHighlight.xyz | Seed | $11M | Jan 2022 |
 Roll | Series A | $10M | Sep 2021 |
 Hamming AI | Seed | $3.8M | — |
 Polar | Seed | $10M | — |
 Stelo Labs | Unknown | $6M | — |
 Friday Harbor | Seed | $6M | — |
 Ascend | Series A | $30M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
BoxGroup7 shared
First Round Capital5 shared
Y Combinator5 shared
Basis Set Ventures5 shared
Distributed Ventures3 shared
Index Ventures3 shared
Susa Ventures3 shared
FirstMark Capital3 shared
Abstract Ventures3 shared
Homebrew3 shared
Gokul Rajaram3 shared
XYZ Venture Capital2 shared
Coinbase Ventures2 shared
Thrive Capital2 shared
Pear VC2 shared
Haystack2 shared
Soma Capital2 shared
Amplify Partners2 shared
OpenSea Ventures2 shared
Andreessen Horowitz2 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026