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 San Francisco Bay Area

Ollie

Seed Round in 2023
GoodOnes With the development of mobile platforms, we were able to put powerful computers, digital cameras, and streaming devices in everyone's pockets - Itcould never have predicted the volume of new content that would be created.

Checkmate

Seed Round in 2022
Checkmate is a digital wallet and payments company. Checkmate offers a suite of financial solutions enabling users to save when purchasing online or in the physical world.

Dgraph Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Dgraph Labs, Inc. develops and operates a graph database. The company provides low latency solution to serve real time user queries over terabytes of structured data. It offers Slash Enterprise, a fully-managed, serverless solution for enterprises managing workloads with terabytes of data in production that runs on dedicated, multi-zone clusters with availability deployed on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Dgraph Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dynamo AI

Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL simplifies model training across privacy-critical datasets using Federated Learning and Differential Privacy.

Rutter

Series A in 2022
Rutter is a technology company that develops a unified application programming interface (API) designed to integrate various e-commerce platforms and marketplaces. Its platform allows businesses to read and write data from multiple storefronts, providing a consistent method for interacting with store data across major retail e-commerce systems. Rutter's offerings include specialized APIs for accounting and commerce, enabling seamless integration of e-commerce data. The company's solutions support various use cases, such as revenue-based financing, small and medium business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement, facilitating better management of orders, products, and customer information for businesses.

Pareto.AI

Seed Round in 2022
Pareto helps delegate time-consuming business tasks to focus on the work that matters most. They combine the quality and care of real people with the efficiency of machine automation to help entrepreneurs get more done — fast.

Neo.tax

Series A in 2022
Neo.tax is a tax preparation and filing service based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in assisting early-stage startups. The company offers a tax automation platform that employs machine learning algorithms to streamline the collection and organization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, project management tools, and financial systems. This technology generates comprehensive reports that detail all activities, expenses, and methodologies used to claim tax credits. By enhancing accuracy and simplifying the review process, Neo.tax aims to ensure that businesses are audit-ready, thereby facilitating a more efficient and reliable tax filing experience.

64x Bio

Series A in 2022
64x Bio is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Alexis Rovner, George Church, Jeffrey Way, and Pamela Silver. The company specializes in designing microorganisms with enhanced properties to facilitate advanced applications in biomanufacturing, bioremediation, and health. By creating cells tailored for specific purposes, 64x Bio aims to enable innovative solutions that were previously unattainable in these fields.

Enable Us

Seed Round in 2021
Referenceable is an all-in-one workspace for the B2B Sales, Marketing, and Customer facing teams to provide a personalized and interactive buying and onboarding experience to their prospective customers. Customer facing teams have everything they need in one single location to: - Capture Video/Audio Product demos, customer references, sales decks, white-papers, contracts, onboarding material, and other content - Automatically organize & contextualize (by industry, persona, deal stage, deal size) - Build personalized deal rooms with AI-targeted content, simplified workflows, and 1:1 communication with the prospect and other stakeholders/influencers.

Lyte

Venture Round in 2021
Lyte is the portable charger sharing solution that offers the best-in-class experience and location coverage. It is a California-based company built by DJ (Dajiang) Wei and Jason Wilde in 2019. Lyte maintains a network of kiosks in the city where users can check out and return a Lyte portable charger.

Rutter

Seed Round in 2021
Rutter is a technology company that develops a unified application programming interface (API) designed to integrate various e-commerce platforms and marketplaces. Its platform allows businesses to read and write data from multiple storefronts, providing a consistent method for interacting with store data across major retail e-commerce systems. Rutter's offerings include specialized APIs for accounting and commerce, enabling seamless integration of e-commerce data. The company's solutions support various use cases, such as revenue-based financing, small and medium business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement, facilitating better management of orders, products, and customer information for businesses.

Allocate

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, Allocate is a venture capital investment firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage startups based in the United States.

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.

Nabis

Series B in 2021
Licensed software-enabled cannabis distributor

Moonshot Brands

Series A in 2021
Moonshot Brands acquires, operates, and grows profitable e-commerce businesses.

Cerebral

Series B in 2021
Cerebral Inc. develops an online membership platform for telehealth visits and care counselor services. It offers Cerebral, a platform that provides medication management, counseling, and therapy for anxiety and depression. The company’s platform also provides access to regular visits and messaging with care counselors. In addition, its platform provides clinically proven symptom-based ratings and tracking services. Cerebral Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California.

Moxion Power

Series A in 2021
Moxion Power is the first battery-electric genset manufacturer and all-electric equipment rental business, serving customers in the $93B global construction equipment rental industry. Moxion’s debut product, the MP75, is the first 100% electric "genset". Our battery gensets will have the same dimensions, run-times, and performance capabilities as traditional trailer and skid mounted diesel generators, with the added benefits of being clean, perfectly-quiet, and offering superior load flexibility. Moxion's logistics team will remotely monitor our rental units and provide charging & swapping services, so our customers never have to worry about running out of power.

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.

Harmonize

Series A in 2021
Harmonize offers a remote care platform that simplifies technology implementation and clinical triage. It focuses on improving remote care for patients in need, many of whom are unfamiliar with technology and suffer from multiple comorbidities. The patient interface gathers both high-tech and high-touch inputs, while its medical platform guides staff through triage and intervention routing at scale. The Harmonize platform reduces potential overhead by more than 90% while increasing patient engagement. It includes patient adherence rate, information triage workload reduction, and healthcare utilization cost reduction.

Clara

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We started Clara to help individuals and families finance their lives in a more efficient, transparent, and empowered way. We started with one of life’s most important financial decisions -- a home. We are building technology to reduce the time and cost it takes to originate a mortgage and creating a more personalized, clear experience for our customers.

Calixa

Seed Round in 2021
Calixa unifies customer data and customer tooling into one, easy-to-use product. It connects with 3rd party services(eg Stripe, Zendesk, Intercom, Sendgrid, etc) to provide a single interface for teams to view, search and act on everything related to customers. It replaces a patchwork of unloved tools (eg internal admin tools, 3rd party tools, writing SQL, asking engineers, etc) with a purpose-built and intuitive customer platform.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2020
UpCodes, Inc. operates a platform that helps the construction industry navigate compliance. The company creates tools that help to collaborate and streamline the process of staying up to date with building codes. It provides search engine for searching across multiple publications or focus on singular codes, simplifies coordination by providing structure research around teams and projects, and easy accessibility of codes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Grouparoo

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of open-source data infrastructure platform designed to make data reliable, accessible, and actionable. The company's platform features the ability to create open-core applications to simplify and automate the data syncing process and offers pre-built connectors that provide control over data and infrastructure.

Goodcover

Series A in 2020
Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC provides insurance brokerage services. It offers insurance products and services for personal property, such as liability for accidental property damage and bodily injury, medical payments for the customer’s guests' injuries, and temporary accommodations if customer’s place becomes unlivable. Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Verifiable

Seed Round in 2020
Verifiable Inc. develops healthcare credential verification and compliance monitoring software. The company helps to automate primary source verifications, track credentials and sanctions, receive notifications instantly when potential issues occur, and prepare audit reports and logs. It serves healthcare providers and entities. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Nabis

Series A in 2020
Licensed software-enabled cannabis distributor

Cerebral

Series A in 2020
Cerebral Inc. develops an online membership platform for telehealth visits and care counselor services. It offers Cerebral, a platform that provides medication management, counseling, and therapy for anxiety and depression. The company’s platform also provides access to regular visits and messaging with care counselors. In addition, its platform provides clinically proven symptom-based ratings and tracking services. Cerebral Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California.

Rupa, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Rupa, Inc., doing business as Rupa Health, develops an online platform that enables patients to access alternative healthcare providers in their area. It offers an online portal for ordering tests from labs and tracking the results. The company ships the test reports directly to the patient’s home. Rupa, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bandit ML

Seed Round in 2020
Gradient is an easy to use reinforcement learning powered decision making platform.

Jemi

Seed Round in 2020
Jemi Inc is a company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2020. It operates a platform that enables content creators to establish personal websites where they can sell various interactions and physical goods to their audiences. The platform specifically allows users to offer experiences such as video calls and shoutouts, as well as merchandise, thereby facilitating direct engagement between creators and their fans.

Mesh

Seed Round in 2020
People Mesh, Inc. develops social people intelligence platforms that accelerate growth for people and teams. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Jose, California.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing robotic solutions tailored for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robots-as-a-service model that enhances operations such as fulfillment, kitting, packing, palletizing, depalletizing, and sortation. Dexterity's innovative robots are designed to exhibit human-like dexterity, enabling them to pick and place various items effectively while adapting gracefully to unpredictable environments.

Angle Health

Seed Round in 2020
Angle Health, Inc. provides health insurance plans for startups. It offers wellness and prevention solutions. Angle Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Edge Impulse

Seed Round in 2020
Edge Impulse is a platform designed to facilitate the development of intelligent devices through embedded machine learning, specifically TinyML. It streamlines the process of building, deploying, and scaling embedded machine learning applications, enabling developers to create innovative solutions more efficiently. The platform allows for the easy collection of real sensor data and supports live signal processing, transforming raw data into neural networks. Additionally, it provides tools for testing and deploying applications across various target devices, ultimately aiming to drive positive societal change through the effective use of machine learning technology.

Mighty Health

Seed Round in 2020
Mighty Technologies, Inc. develops a nutrition and fitness wellness application that is tailored to older adults who might have achy hips or joint problems. The company through its application pairs users with a coach to help them create healthy habits around nutrition and lifestyle. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Neo.tax

Seed Round in 2020
Neo.tax is a tax preparation and filing service based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in assisting early-stage startups. The company offers a tax automation platform that employs machine learning algorithms to streamline the collection and organization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, project management tools, and financial systems. This technology generates comprehensive reports that detail all activities, expenses, and methodologies used to claim tax credits. By enhancing accuracy and simplifying the review process, Neo.tax aims to ensure that businesses are audit-ready, thereby facilitating a more efficient and reliable tax filing experience.

Hoss

Seed Round in 2020
Hoss is an enterprise software company that helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume. The company’s simple, easy-to-use solution gives teams full visibility into the third-party APIs they use, provides data privacy controls, and increases reliability and performance to make sure integrations are robust and applications run smoothly. It also delivers clear analytics on application errors and performance. Hoss was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, USA.

DeepSource

Seed Round in 2020
DeepSource Corp. is a technology company that offers an online platform for automated code reviews, focusing on identifying potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the platform continuously analyzes source code changes to detect and address issues categorized as security risks, performance concerns, anti-patterns, and bug risks. By facilitating the discovery and automatic resolution of these issues, DeepSource aids developers in ensuring code quality before deployment, ultimately enhancing software reliability and security.

Chipper Cash

Series A in 2020
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Almanac

Seed Round in 2020
Almanac Labs, Inc. develops an online documentation tool designed to enhance collaboration and efficiency within teams. The company's primary product, Almanac, serves as a knowledge base that allows users to save, edit, and comment on guides and templates tailored for various roles in technology. By facilitating the discovery, customization, and sharing of information, Almanac aims to streamline workflows and improve team productivity. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Almanac's mission is to democratize access to essential skills and insights, enabling individuals to reach their full potential without being constrained by knowledge gaps.

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.

Aesthetic

Seed Round in 2020
Aesthetic is a full-service creative agency founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The agency specializes in tactical design services that support business growth across various industries, including consumer goods, biotechnology, and healthcare. Aesthetic offers a comprehensive range of services, including illustration, brand design, brand strategy, web design, copywriting, logo design, motion graphics, graphic design, animation, web development, and UI design. Notably, the agency has introduced a service called Branding Essentials, aimed at startups requiring rapid branding solutions within a four-day timeframe. By providing high-quality and thoughtful design services, Aesthetic makes effective branding accessible to companies of all sizes.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses with distributed employees and contractors. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company facilitates onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized document management, while also handling statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. By connecting candidates with remote job opportunities, Remote allows companies to focus on their workforce without the complexities of managing global payroll and regulatory compliance.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a comprehensive human resource technology platform that specializes in payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax services for businesses with distributed employees and contractors. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company facilitates onboarding, automatic payments, and centralized document management, while also handling statutory payments, social and pension contributions, and income tax retention. By connecting candidates with remote job opportunities, Remote allows companies to focus on their workforce without the complexities of managing global payroll and regulatory compliance.

Release

Seed Round in 2020
Release is a company that specializes in simplifying the development process by providing a staging management toolkit. This toolkit allows users to define environments, resources, workflows, and hostnames, enabling the creation of development, staging, demo, and production environments based on templates automatically derived from docker-compose files. By eliminating the need to manage underlying infrastructure, Release enables businesses to automate the deployment process, ensuring that environments are automatically generated and updated with each code change or pull request. Additionally, users can manually deploy environments through the Release user interface. Founded in 2019 by Tommy, David, and Erik, Release aims to enhance collaborative development cycles by streamlining integration with existing tools and facilitating permanent production environments.

Microverse

Seed Round in 2020
Microverse Enterprises, Inc. is an online education platform founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, specializing in training software developers. The company aims to educate and connect one million individuals with remote job opportunities by 2030. Microverse offers full-stack web development programs that utilize income share agreements, allowing students to pay tuition after securing employment. The platform emphasizes collaborative learning, where students from diverse backgrounds work in small distributed teams, engage in remote pair programming, and participate in open source and freelance projects. This approach fosters accountability and teamwork, enabling students to develop the skills necessary to become professional remote software developers while providing companies with access to a global talent pool.

TrueNorth

Seed Round in 2020
TrueNorth is a software company based in San Francisco, California, focused on addressing inefficiencies in the independent trucking industry. Founded by Stedge and Sanjaya Wijeratne, the company provides a platform that combines various tools and resources for independent truckers. This platform assists truckers in managing essential aspects of their operations, including insurance, fuel, and maintenance. Additionally, TrueNorth helps optimize routes, coordinates loads, and offers automated tracking, enabling truckers to secure better-paying jobs and find dedicated routes. By consolidating these services, TrueNorth aims to streamline operations for independent truckers and enhance their overall efficiency in a fragmented market.

TrueNorth

Seed Round in 2020
TrueNorth is a software company based in San Francisco, California, focused on addressing inefficiencies in the independent trucking industry. Founded by Stedge and Sanjaya Wijeratne, the company provides a platform that combines various tools and resources for independent truckers. This platform assists truckers in managing essential aspects of their operations, including insurance, fuel, and maintenance. Additionally, TrueNorth helps optimize routes, coordinates loads, and offers automated tracking, enabling truckers to secure better-paying jobs and find dedicated routes. By consolidating these services, TrueNorth aims to streamline operations for independent truckers and enhance their overall efficiency in a fragmented market.

Goodcover

Seed Round in 2020
Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC provides insurance brokerage services. It offers insurance products and services for personal property, such as liability for accidental property damage and bodily injury, medical payments for the customer’s guests' injuries, and temporary accommodations if customer’s place becomes unlivable. Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alembic

Seed Round in 2020
Alembic is a stealth phase startup in MarTech that is developing cutting edge new technology.

Lumi Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Lumi Labs Inc. develops artificial intelligence-based consumer mobile applications that enables users to keep contact information up-to-date, schedule meetings, make plans, and form groups for communication and sharing. It offers Lumi Labs Holiday Helper that takes a list of contacts and gets up-to-date mailing information for everyone on it by contacting people to ask for updated information, removing duplicates, organizing the list, and producing easy-to-use file formats. Lumi Labs Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Memfault

Seed Round in 2019
Memfault provides solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics to consumer electronics businesses. The company takes care of software updates and diagnostics, so that the user can focus on what makes its products unique. Memfault’s SDK works with existing hardware. Monitor and deploy a firmware to low level devices via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, or proprietary protocol. Memfault is based in San Francisco, California.

Prelay

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Prelay is a team selling platform built for large deal and account processes. Companies use Prelay to create process & team alignment to close more deals and get users deployed, faster. AEs, Deal Support (SEs, etc.) Implementation and supporting teams (finance, legal) work in tandem as a team through leveraging Prelay.

Raise Commercial Real Estate

Seed Round in 2019
HelloOffice is a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage helping companies search for office space in a smarter and faster way. The company pairs experienced brokers with easy to use software to give its clients the best service in the market.

Lively

Series B in 2019
Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals. Lively’s user-centric solution creates an intuitive user experience allowing consumers to get the most out of their HSA.

Naborly

Seed Round in 2019
Naborly uses AI to help landlords and tenants eliminate the stress of the eviction experience by offering an inclusive credit bureau and tenant screening platform, lease protection insurance, and low-interest pay-day lending (12.5%) to help tenants get back on their feet when life throws those unexpected curveballs

Balto

Seed Round in 2019
Balto, the sports gaming platform made for the casual, everyday fan. We’re thrilled to have you. As a quick intro, we’re Nick Montana, Spencer Cassidy and Joel Karacozoff, three individuals with a passion for gaming and an affinity for bringing people together. As driven co-founders to deliver the best experience, They have set out to create a simple, social and fun gaming interface for all.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
Through streamlined data model and powerful query language, we make working with data productive, pleasant and efficient for developers and data engineers.

Pair Team

Seed Round in 2019
Pair Team provides an end-to-end operations platform to automate clinical operations and provide high-touch patient support. The platform monitors health plan and system data to trigger automated workflows that engage patients to schedule clinically impactful visits. Pair Team was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, focused on modernizing the hiring process for companies. The organization employs a unique automated hiring platform that leverages algorithmic technology to identify and engage suitable candidates for open positions. By understanding the specific skill sets required by companies, Dover streamlines the recruitment process, reducing the need for extensive human involvement. This approach not only enhances the efficiency of hiring but also helps organizations improve their margins by ensuring that the right talent is onboarded. Through its innovative methods, Dover aims to support some of the fastest-growing companies in finding and engaging high-quality candidates.

Mighty Buildings

Series A in 2019
Mighty Buildings is a developer of 3D printing technology and automation platform to make housing more affordable for customers. It is a modular construction company working on disrupting the residential housing market with 3D printing tech, robotics, and composite materials backed by notable top tier venture capital firms. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Zuma

Seed Round in 2019
Resident Boost is a funded mission-driven company that is focused on improving the leasing process for tenants, landlords, and property managers. Resident Boost was birthed from the frustrations the founders faced when trying to lease their own apartments. The process was fragmented and the workflow was broken. At Resident Boost, our mission is to make leasing frictionless by leveraging conversational AI and machine learning to reduce the time and involvement needed from tenants, landlords, and property managers.

Freedom Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Freedom Robotics, Inc. develops software infrastructure for modern robotics companies. It develops software infrastructure to enable the robotics companies to build, operate, support, and scale robots and robotic fleets. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Momentus

Series A in 2019
Momentus Inc. is a company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in water-powered transportation services for spacecraft. Founded in 2017, it is a pioneer in developing in-space transportation and infrastructure technology, focusing on the commercialization of space. The company employs a team of experienced aerospace, propulsion, and robotics engineers who have created an energy-efficient transport system utilizing plasma water propulsion technology. Momentus has established service agreements with notable entities, including Lockheed Martin and NASA, as well as various private satellite companies and government agencies. Its inaugural Vigoride™ transport system launch was scheduled for December 2020, marking a significant step in its mission to enhance space logistics.

Momentus

Series A in 2019
Momentus Inc. is a company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in water-powered transportation services for spacecraft. Founded in 2017, it is a pioneer in developing in-space transportation and infrastructure technology, focusing on the commercialization of space. The company employs a team of experienced aerospace, propulsion, and robotics engineers who have created an energy-efficient transport system utilizing plasma water propulsion technology. Momentus has established service agreements with notable entities, including Lockheed Martin and NASA, as well as various private satellite companies and government agencies. Its inaugural Vigoride™ transport system launch was scheduled for December 2020, marking a significant step in its mission to enhance space logistics.

Berbix

Seed Round in 2019
Berbix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a photo identity verification and fraud deterrence solution through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Founded in 2018, Berbix offers a comprehensive solution for collecting and validating photo IDs, including driver licenses and passports. Their platform enables instant ID checks, age verification, and enhancements for Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, while also addressing chargebacks and marketplace fraud. With features designed for seamless integration and customization, Berbix allows businesses to select their preferred verification methods and securely access user data, which helps in reducing low-intent or fraudulent sign-ups. The company, which is backed by prominent investors, was established by former leaders from Trust & Safety at Airbnb and operates from its headquarters in Sacramento, California.

Chipper Cash

Seed Round in 2019
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Golden

Seed Round in 2019
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler. It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top of changes, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.

Handle

Seed Round in 2019
Handle, Inc. specializes in developing software applications that streamline personal workflows, particularly within the construction industry. Its platform integrates task management features, such as to-do lists, emails, and calendars, to enhance user productivity. Additionally, Handle addresses significant industry challenges, including late payments and access to capital, by providing automation tools that manage lien processes, track deadlines, and facilitate online communications. The company also offers financing solutions, including invoice factoring and material supply loans. Founded in 2011 and based in La Jolla, California, Handle, Inc. was previously known as handl, inc. before rebranding in June 2012.

Nabis

Seed Round in 2019
Licensed software-enabled cannabis distributor

Fuzzbuzz

Seed Round in 2019
Fuzzbuzz is a security platform that protects various software from digital hacks or attacks. It integrates fuzzing into DevOps workflow by automating away complex infrastructure management and setup and connecting with tools. The platform gives alerts when bugs are found, deduplicates, and categorizes them to cut out the noise and false positives, and allows them to easily analyze them via the web UI. Fuzzbuzz was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Viosera Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2019
Viosera Therapeutics is a predict and block drug resistance in cancer and bacteria. The company discovers synergies between approved drugs and develop combinations of drugs that suppress resistance. Antibiotic resistance makes it necessary to develop better treatments for deadly infections. Viosera Therapeutics was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

2ndKitchen

Seed Round in 2019
2ndKitchen, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that provides a platform for businesses lacking kitchen facilities to offer food service by partnering with local restaurants. Founded in 2017, 2ndKitchen enables various establishments, including bars, breweries, hotels, and co-working spaces, to create custom-branded menus featuring food selections from nearby restaurants. The platform facilitates seamless ordering through integrated kiosks, ensuring that food is delivered quickly and hot to customers at their seats. This approach benefits all parties involved: businesses enhance their offerings with food options, customers enjoy convenient dining experiences, and restaurants gain additional revenue by serving a broader customer base in their neighborhoods.

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.

Untitled Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Untitled Labs, Inc., a search lab, provides consumer tech business ideas testing services. It offers services to test multiple consumer tech ideas in social and professional networking, mobility, personal finance, premium services, health and wellness, travel, photography, and dating areas. Untitled Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Soraban

Seed Round in 2019
Software-empowered tax-experts for self-employed individuals.

UTVATE

Seed Round in 2019
UTVATE provides the last mile in internet connectivity for all. It is building satellite internet receivers that are 100x cheaper than existing solutions. They are providing the necessary ground technology to bring the 4B people currently without internet online.

Freedom Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Freedom Robotics, Inc. develops software infrastructure for modern robotics companies. It develops software infrastructure to enable the robotics companies to build, operate, support, and scale robots and robotic fleets. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a fraud document detection platform designed to automate the process of identifying fraudulent documents. The company's platform uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision to scan documents, enabling businesses in the financial services sector to streamline onboarding and underwriting processes, reduce fraud losses, and approve customers.

Momentus

Seed Round in 2018
Momentus Inc. is a company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in water-powered transportation services for spacecraft. Founded in 2017, it is a pioneer in developing in-space transportation and infrastructure technology, focusing on the commercialization of space. The company employs a team of experienced aerospace, propulsion, and robotics engineers who have created an energy-efficient transport system utilizing plasma water propulsion technology. Momentus has established service agreements with notable entities, including Lockheed Martin and NASA, as well as various private satellite companies and government agencies. Its inaugural Vigoride™ transport system launch was scheduled for December 2020, marking a significant step in its mission to enhance space logistics.

RankScience

Seed Round in 2018
RankScience is a continuous-optimization platform that improves website SEO through automatic A/B testing and data science.

Mutiny

Seed Round in 2018
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. By enabling these companies to tailor their online experiences for individual visitors, Mutiny aims to reduce the high bounce rate typically seen in web traffic. Different visitors, coming from various industries and company sizes, often have distinct needs, and Mutiny addresses this by providing customized experiences that help users find what they are looking for more efficiently. Clients such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have implemented Mutiny's solutions and reported significant improvements in conversion rates, with some experiencing increases of up to 200%.

System1 Biosciences

Series A in 2018
System1 Biosciences, Inc., is a San Francisco-based neurotherapeutics company that employs phenotypic screening to discover novel drugs for complex neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy, autism, and schizophrenia, disorders for which current discovery techniques have proved least successful. System1 combines cerebral organoid science, systems neuroscience, robotic automation, and advanced data analytics to discover characterizations of disease never before achievable. These “deep phenotypes” are exploited to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug treatments.

Cricket Health

Series A in 2018
Cricket Health Inc. is a specialty provider focused on integrated nephrology and dialysis care for individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes technology to deliver comprehensive care both in-person and virtually. Cricket Health aims to optimize patient outcomes and enhance value for healthcare partners by promoting patient health, reducing hospitalizations, facilitating access to kidney transplants, and encouraging the adoption of home dialysis. Through its innovative approach, Cricket Health is dedicated to improving the lives of patients while aligning its objectives with those of its partners.

Openland

Seed Round in 2018
Openland is a modern platform for chat communities. Anyone can start a community as a simple chat and add more activies as they grow. Openland provides tools for sharing and organizing community knowledge and connecting community members via 1-1 introductions. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco. Openland is backed by 30 prominent venture investors, including Y Combinator, Gagarin Capital, Sinai Ventures, Soma Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Rainfall Ventures.

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.

Shone

Seed Round in 2018
Shone, Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing and manufacturing autonomous sensors for container ships. Its innovative platform utilizes artificial intelligence to create a digital co-pilot system, which analyzes the surroundings of a ship and predicts the behavior of nearby vessels. This technology aims to enhance safety in ocean trade while also contributing to fuel savings. By automating existing cargo ships, Shone seeks to reduce risks for shipowners, protect personnel, and promote environmentally friendly practices in the shipping industry.

ON

Seed Round in 2018
GameOn Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing a mobile application designed for sports fans. The app facilitates real-time interaction by allowing users to chat with friends while receiving updates such as news, scores, and highlights about their favorite teams. The company also offers a ChatOS platform that enhances brand engagement by connecting fans with relevant content and fostering deeper connections based on their interests. Utilizing a proprietary language model, GameOn's platform enables efficient communication between brands and consumers, supporting user retention and engagement. This innovative approach not only enhances the fan experience but also aids businesses in driving profitability and monetization through effective chat interactions.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2018
UpCodes, Inc. operates a platform that helps the construction industry navigate compliance. The company creates tools that help to collaborate and streamline the process of staying up to date with building codes. It provides search engine for searching across multiple publications or focus on singular codes, simplifies coordination by providing structure research around teams and projects, and easy accessibility of codes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Thunkable

Venture Round in 2018
From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends!

JetFuel

Seed Round in 2018
JetFuel is an influencer driven app promotion service.

Pointcloud

Seed Round in 2018
Pointcloud is a developer of a 3D imaging platform on a chip. The company offers a technology for big data analytics on 3D point clouds based on machine learning. It enables the future of augmented reality, robotics, and autonomous mobility.

Etleap

Seed Round in 2018
Etleap Inc., founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, offers an innovative ETL solution aimed at streamlining the creation of data pipelines. The company's software enables data analytics teams to efficiently build and manage data warehouses without extensive engineering resources or coding knowledge. By automating much of the ETL setup and maintenance, Etleap simplifies complex processes into manageable tasks that can be completed in about ten minutes. This approach enhances productivity for data analysts, allowing them to focus on extracting insights from data rather than on technical implementation. Overall, Etleap’s tools facilitate quicker integration of data from various sources, thereby increasing business value and accessibility to big data.

Orchid Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Orchid Labs is an open-source initiative focused on combating internet surveillance and censorship. Founded in 2017 by a team including Dr. Steven Waterhouse and Jay Freeman, the company develops a decentralized nanopayment platform that enhances internet accessibility. Its innovative approach employs an overlay network built on the existing internet, utilizing a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange. This technology empowers users to protect their personal data while facilitating secure communication, collaboration, and information access. Overall, Orchid Labs aims to create a more inclusive and liberated online environment for all users.

NanoVMs

Seed Round in 2018
NanoVMs Inc. provides managed platform of unikernel based systems for both public and private environments. Its products include unikernel platform, a fully managed production ready unikernel platform; unikernel database, which prevents attackers from running shell code exploits on important databases; and unikernel firewall. Additionally the company offers managed services, app development, and migration services for companies using unikernel technology. NanoVMs Inc. was formerly known as DeferPanic Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.