Crafting, a Palo Alto, CA-based infrastructure-focused company, announced the general availability of Crafting for Agents and raised $5.5 million in Seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Mischief, with participation from WndrCo and several angel investors.
Mischief is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that focuses on investing in early-stage technology startups, mainly at the pre-Seed and Seed stages. Mischief typically invests in sectors such as SaaS, fintech, developer tools, AI, healthcare, and marketplaces, helping young companies build and scale their products.
Crafting Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to further develop its infrastructure platform, which enables AI agents and human engineers to build, test, and ship code within production-like environments.
About Crafting
Crafting builds end-to-end infrastructure for agentic engineering at AI-first companies such as Faire, Brex, Verkada, and Instabase. Its platform, Crafting for Agents, enables AI agents and human engineers to write, validate, and ship code inside production-like environments tailored to complex, multi-service enterprise systems. Crafting supports controlled autonomy, multi-cloud resilience, Kubernetes-based orchestration, and integration with modern CI/CD pipelines. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Crafting serves customers such as Faire, Brex, Webflow, Verkada, Persona, and Instabase.
Funding Details
Company: Crafting, Inc.
Raised: $5.5M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: March 2026
Lead Investor: Mischief
Additional Investors: WndrCo; Andy Manoske; Arash Ferdowsi; Lenny Rachitsky; Gokul Rajaram; Merrill Lutsky; other angel investors
Company Website: https://crafting.dev/
Software Category: AI Engineering Infrastructure / Developer Tools
Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/09/3252022/0/en/Crafting-Announces-General-Availability-of-Crafting-for-Agents-and-5-5M-Seed-Round-to-Build-Infrastructure-for-AI-Driven-Engineering.html