Liquid 2 Ventures

Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in seed-stage investments, targeting technology startups across various sectors, including communications, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and more. With a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to support early-stage entrepreneurs in the United States as they develop innovative solutions and grow their businesses. The firm was established by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, bringing together their expertise to foster technological advancements and drive economic growth in the tech industry.

Michael Ma

Co-Founder & Partner

Michael Miller Ph.D

Co-Founder & Partner

Nate Montana

General Partner

Joseph Montana Jr.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Matthew Mulvey

Partner

Past deals in Illinois

Here

Seed Round in 2022
Here is a business that focuses on simplifying parking solutions for drivers through an online booking platform. It allows users to reserve parking in advance and provides access to various garages associated with sports teams, venues, travel providers, and hotels. The system integrates seamlessly with navigation systems and can be operated via text or voice commands, making it user-friendly and accessible. Additionally, Here offers last mile mobility solutions that enhance the parking experience across various platforms, enabling businesses to provide transactional parking as an added service. This approach not only benefits drivers by easing the parking process but also supports businesses in offering more comprehensive services to their customers.

Here

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Here is a business that focuses on simplifying parking solutions for drivers through an online booking platform. It allows users to reserve parking in advance and provides access to various garages associated with sports teams, venues, travel providers, and hotels. The system integrates seamlessly with navigation systems and can be operated via text or voice commands, making it user-friendly and accessible. Additionally, Here offers last mile mobility solutions that enhance the parking experience across various platforms, enabling businesses to provide transactional parking as an added service. This approach not only benefits drivers by easing the parking process but also supports businesses in offering more comprehensive services to their customers.

Resonado

Seed Round in 2021
Resonado, Inc. specializes in designing and developing audio systems utilizing its patented Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology. Founded in 2017 and based in South Bend, Indiana, with additional offices in San Francisco, Boston, and Anyang, South Korea, the company serves various industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, home theater, hospitality, and marine. Traditional conical speaker transducer technology has long dominated audio production, but the demand for smaller, more efficient audio components has increased significantly due to trends in product miniaturization and the proliferation of smart IoT devices. Resonado's FCS technology addresses these challenges by optimizing the internal structure of electrodynamic transducers, allowing for innovative design without sacrificing acoustic performance. The company generates revenue primarily through licensing its technology to global manufacturers across multiple sectors.

Gearflow

Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to enable and preserve industrial entrepreneurship. We are the first online marketplace for all things construction equipment parts; acting as the outsourced parts and tool manager for the great contractors of America. The $200B+ construction equipment industry in the US consists of thousands of suppliers that are inaccessible or poorly represented online. These suppliers are in desperate need of an e-commerce platform that works for them. Contractors make 17-20 calls per week to find the parts they need. Manufacturers have billions of dollars of parts inventory sitting on their shelves. Aftermarket part supplier's core business is selling their specific niche. These factors combine to form a highly-fragmented industry with a massive amount of supply and demand and product-knowledge gaps. Gearflow is filling this information gap both online and offline. Thank you for visiting our Crunchbase page. If you'd like to learn more please contact me directly at luke@gearflow.com

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, CA.

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, CA.

Fly.io

Seed Round in 2020
Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global 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 software platform developed by Creisoft, Inc. that connects commercial real estate brokers and investors, streamlining the transaction process within the industry. The platform offers a range of features, including the ability for brokers to create marketing materials, list properties on a public or private marketplace, and manage financial documents and analytics in real time. Investors benefit from access to property teasers and instant delivery of offering memorandums upon signing an electronic confidentiality agreement. Additionally, Obie includes tools for underwriting properties, supported by integrated financial modeling capabilities. The platform serves various asset classes, including office, industrial, retail, and multifamily properties. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Creisoft, Inc. utilizes advanced encryption and operates on certified secure servers to ensure data protection.

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, CA.

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, CA.

Telepathic

Venture Round in 2017
Telepathic, Inc., doing business as Hooked, develops a mobile reading application for young people, which presents stories as text message conversations. The company also develops AutoRap, a music application; and produces videos. Telepathic, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Open Listings

Seed Round in 2015
Open Listings Co. operates an online home buying platform. Its platform enables users to make a personalized real-time feed of listings, schedule house tours on-demand, and create offers on any home. It serves customers in California, Washington, Texas, and Illinois. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of September 11, 2018, Open Listings Co. operates as a subsidiary of Opendoor Labs, Inc.