Latest fund size
$2M
Announced
November 13, 2026
Global HQ
United States
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Check size
$25K-$150K
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Stage focus
Pre-Seed, Seed
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Regions of investment
North America
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Mission Street Capital is a San Francisco venture firm founded by Surabhi Todi and Lisa Shmulyan, who met as housemates at Mission Control, one of the city's oldest hacker houses. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed in technical founders emerging from hacker houses and other talent clusters, often before they start fundraising.
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Names, roles, emails and LinkedIn profiles for the team, plus the fund's website.
Mission Street Capital backs AI-native companies at pre-seed and seed, from voice models to agent infrastructure.
The firm finds founders through hacker houses and talent clusters and looks for unconventional signs of ability in a founder's history, such as businesses and projects they built early.
It often writes the first institutional check, then helps with positioning, investor introductions, and fundraising for the next round.
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What the fund looks for in founders and which sectors it backs.
Mission Street Capital launched publicly in November 2026 with a debut vehicle it calls Fund 0, for which it has raised under $2 million.
The fund is backed by hacker house alumni, technical leaders from AI labs, and investors at established venture firms.
Its limited partners include Ari Weinstein (OpenAI), Michael Graczyk and Soheil Koushan (Anthropic), Ashvin Nair (Meta AI), Nikhil Thota (Perplexity), Tanzeela Khan (Replit), Dani Grant (Jam.dev), Kevin Unkrich (Superpower), James da Costa (a16z), Caitlin Bolnick (CRV), Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), David Ongchoco (Comma Capital), Vishal Maini (Mythos Ventures), Aaron Ligon (SciFi VC), and Harlyn Pacheco (PayPal).
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Fund size, LPs and track record.
Leadership
Investment Strategy
Mission Street Capital typically invests $25,000 to $150,000 per company at pre-seed and seed, often as the first institutional investor. The firm spends up to 100 hours getting to know a founder before investing and has backed roughly 12 startups so far.
Notable Investments
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Leadership, investment strategy, notable investments and exits.
