# Mischief

> Mischief is a VC fund backing Software, FinTech and Financial Services. See 90 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 90
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.mischief.xyz

Mischief is a VC fund focused on Software and FinTech. Early stage venture fund.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Mischief. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Mischief. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/mischief-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.7M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $12M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 28 | 31% |
| FinTech | 22 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 17% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 51 | 57% |
| Series A | 19 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 67 | 74% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dustin Moring | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dustin-moring-b7c5 |
| Lauren Farleigh | General Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-farleigh |
| Nathaniel Abbott | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nathaniel-abbott |
| Zachary Perret | Co-Founder | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zach-perret |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plot | Plot is the AI-powered social listening platform for the video era — unlocking hidden signals across video, text, and social interactions. Our multimodal AI analyzes what’s shown, said, and commented to detect products on screen (no tagging required) and extract consumer behavior so brands can see who’s using their product, how it’s being used, andwhat’s driving culture. | $10M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Backpack | Backpack Payment Technologies, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in building API-driven payment gateways for 529 College Savings Plans. The company collaborates with OMB Bank, a Member FDIC, to provide banking services. Backpack focuses on simplifying the process of managing and contributing to 529 accounts, making it easierfor families to save for education expenses. The platform integrates various financial services to offer a seamless user experience for its clients. | $9M | Seed | May 01, 2026 |  |
| Crafting | Crafting Platform provides a holistic Dev Infra as a Service product to top software engineering teams, including Cloud-based Dev Environments, Integration Testing, Kubernetes Debugging, Local-Cloud Hybrid Development, Dev Data Management, Third Party API Integration, Preview Environments. Crafting helps take care of the infra layer for dev innerloop so that dev platform teams in top tech companies can 10x their capabilities, reduce management burden, and cut dev resource cost. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 09, 2026 |  |
| Tivara | Tivara designs software to help doctors quickly automate prior authorization requests, so care is delivered faster. | $3.6M | Seed | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| DataLane | DataLane is building the GTM platform for companies selling to local businesses | $22.5M | Series A | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Ambrook | Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future. | $26.1M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Polar | Polar is a subscription network for open-source maintainers and backers. Polar also provides tools that enable data processing and data integration. Polar was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. | $10M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Friday Harbor | Friday Harbor helps your loan officers assemble complete, accurate, and fully underwritten loan files in real-time, day or night. Friday Harbor reads documents in real-time and guides your LOs, processors, and loan assistants as they engage with borrowers. Friday Harbor anticipates conditions and helps the LO clear them in real-time.It wasfounded in 2024 and is located in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $6M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Multiply Mortgage | Multiply Mortgage a modern mortgage platform with a novel distribution channel of working with companies to provide access to better mortgage rates as an employee benefit, enabling their employees to afford more home. | $23.5M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Town | Town is an financial services company that provides online tool to help the businesses to pay tax for convenient process. |  |  | Mar 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 90 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Pear VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pejman-mar-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mischief invest in?

Mischief invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 90 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mischief's check size?

Mischief typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed, $2.7M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$28M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mischief participates in.

### How do I contact Mischief?

Public channels for Mischief include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Mischief?

The team at Mischief includes Dustin Moring (General Partner), Lauren Farleigh (General Partner) and Nathaniel Abbott (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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