Hacker House Alumni Launch Mission Street Capital, a VC Betting on SF Talent Clusters
jamdac · x · 2026-11-13
Lisa Shmulyan and Surbhi Todi met as housemates at Mission Control, SF's oldest hacker house, and are launching Mission Street Capital. The fund's thesis: hacker houses are becoming talent clusters where exceptional builders emerge, and builders recognize builders. LPs include hacker house alumni, technical leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, and GPs from a16z, CRV, Emergence and Uncork. Per Business Insider, SF hacker houses have already produced multibillion-dollar startups from Perplexity to OpenRouter.
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