Liquid 2 Ventures

Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in seed-stage investments in technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on identifying and supporting early-stage companies with high growth potential in the tech sector. By providing both financial backing and strategic guidance, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to foster innovation and help emerging businesses navigate their initial stages of development.

Mike Miller

General Partner and Founder

Joe Montana

Founder and Managing Partner

Nathaniel Montana

Partner

Past deals in Illinois

Here

Seed Round in 2022
Here Holdings, LLC is a food and beverage company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. The product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. Additionally, the company offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and curry lentil. Here Holdings is committed to utilizing Midwest produce and emphasizes values such as trust, transparency, and community in its operations.

Here

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Here Holdings, LLC is a food and beverage company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. The product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. Additionally, the company offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and curry lentil. Here Holdings is committed to utilizing Midwest produce and emphasizes values such as trust, transparency, and community in its operations.

Here

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Here Holdings, LLC is a food and beverage company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. The product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. Additionally, the company offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and curry lentil. Here Holdings is committed to utilizing Midwest produce and emphasizes values such as trust, transparency, and community in its operations.

Resonado

Seed Round in 2021
Resonado Labs develops innovative audio hardware solutions that deliver a wide spectrum of new possibilities for sound reproduction. We are on a mission to bring real innovation to the audio market, starting at the hardware level. We have developed audio hardware products ranging from miniaturized sub-woofer drivers for all-in-one integrated sound bars to long range sonic projection arrays capable of delivering a hyper directed sound beam audible at distances of over 1500m. With a core focus on transducer design and engineering, we are capable of high velocity innovation and development on a never ending quest to continually improve the acoustic performance of our products through endless experimentations with materials, motor structure architectures, industrial and system designs. We are pushing our proprietary transducer technology into new industries through both simulation engineering environments and rapid prototyping with physical materials on site at our Chicago headquarters and in conjunction with our commercial partners.

Gearflow

Seed Round in 2021
We are on a mission to simplify the parts ordering process for heavy equipment fleets by providing better parts supplier access, communication, and reporting, in one easy-to-use platform.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2021
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2020
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fly.io

Seed Round in 2020
Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers. The company's application delivery network uses a network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.

Obie

Seed Round in 2019
Obie is a technology-driven platform that offers insurance and risk management solutions tailored for real estate investors and landlords across the United States. The platform aims to simplify the insurance process by providing an affordable and transparent experience, ensuring clients receive the best rates for property and casualty plans that safeguard their investments. By leveraging data, Obie streamlines the sale of property insurance and consolidates essential portfolio information, allowing users to effectively manage their real estate risks. In addition to its insurance services, Obie provides tools for commercial real estate brokers, enabling them to create marketing materials, manage property listings, and access real-time analytics. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Obie serves a diverse range of asset classes, including office, industrial, retail, and multifamily properties.

LoanSnap

Series A in 2019
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LoanSnap

Series A in 2018
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Telepathic

Venture Round in 2017
Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing lean principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a twitter for fiction mobile app that makes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality. The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.

Fly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers. The company's application delivery network uses a network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.

Open Listings

Seed Round in 2015
Open Listings is a homebuying app designed to make buying a home simple and more affordable. Open Listings was born out of a desire to change the way of buying homes. The company aims to improve and demystify every aspect of the process, from browse to close. The founders came together in 2014 after their own frustrating experiences buying their first homes. It was clear to them that, although technology had already made its mark on many of life’s most critical moments, it had largely left homebuying behind. In a few short years, we’ve made a ton of progress towards reshaping that experience for the better.

Open Listings

Seed Round in 2015
Open Listings is a homebuying app designed to make buying a home simple and more affordable. Open Listings was born out of a desire to change the way of buying homes. The company aims to improve and demystify every aspect of the process, from browse to close. The founders came together in 2014 after their own frustrating experiences buying their first homes. It was clear to them that, although technology had already made its mark on many of life’s most critical moments, it had largely left homebuying behind. In a few short years, we’ve made a ton of progress towards reshaping that experience for the better.
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