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Mischief
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Mischief is a venture firm based in San Francisco that invests $1-5m in early stage technology companies. It leads rounds and takes a meaningful stake in every company it backs, with a partnership of four generalist partners.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsMischief lists 24 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (26%), AI & Machine Learning (23%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside BoxGroup, Y Combinator and Accel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Mischief, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Mischief's whole history. Rounds on record name 10 companies; its own site lists 24. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 59th | 24 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 61th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 26% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 23% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| BoxGroup | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Accel | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Articulate | 2 |
| Basis Set Ventures | 2 |
| Cameron Ventures | 2 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers24100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Mischief head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Mischief| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Mischief
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Mischief's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
24 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpharun provides AI coaching, QA, and voice agents for regulated sales teams | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Ambrook provides financial tools, including bookkeeping, payments, and business insights, to help businesses manage their operations | FintechSpace & Defense | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Authentic provides the infrastructure that brokers need to deliver well-priced specialized programs fast. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Beacon AI develops and provides pilot assistance autonomy systems for professional aviation. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a leasing operating system for property managers | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Aug 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Chaos Labs builds infrastructure for organizations to manage and own their AI workflows | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Comulate provides an accounting automation platform for brokers and accounting teams. | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Crafting gives AI agents secure, scoped access to the databases, services, and credentials they need, so their work holds up in production. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| DataLane provides go-to-market data for local business sales | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Dec 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| The company provides a platform for continuous cyber defense and autonomous security to help teams uncover and prevent security threats. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Clair helps payroll and workforce platforms deliver embedded On-Demand Pay directly inside the systems employees already use. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| iVerify brings kernel-adjacent telemetry, behavioral baselining, and AI-driven threat hunting to hundreds of thousands of mobile devices | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| BOB provides an AI finance employee for businesses, plugging into existing accounting, invoicing, and estimating tools | Fintech | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Merge connects AI agents to company data, tools, and models | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Nestmed provides an AI platform for home health and hospice documentation, coding, and quality review | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an online ordering and restaurant marketing system for restaurants | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Parafin provides a financing program for platforms to offer to their business customers | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Plot provides AI-powered tools for social media teams to watch, listen to, and read social videos and capture user-generated content | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides an embedded electricity platform for other companies to offer their own electricity plans and manage energy-related services | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- mischief.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Mar 2022
- Companies checked
- 24
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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