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 and Partner

Mike Miller

Co-Founder and Partner

Nate Montana

Partner

Joe Montana

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Nathaniel Montana

Partner

Elizabeth Montana-Luciano

Director of Operations

Matt Mulvey

Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Turntable

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Turntable is a developer of an AI-powered data discovery and visualization platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of data teams. The company's toolkit facilitates the creation and management of data pipelines, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with data transformation processes. By enabling collaborative efforts, Turntable allows data teams to find, contextualize, and transform data rapidly, without requiring engineering support. Key features of the platform include integration across various technology stacks, data preparation, data integration, and data visualization, streamlining the workflow for users involved in data management and analysis.

WeLoveNoCode

Seed Round in 2022
Fast NoCode Development For a Low, Flat, Monthly Fee

Emerge Tools

Seed Round in 2021
Emerge is building tools to monitor and reduce app size. Their actionable insights provide instant savings, while their continuous monitoring helps developers write smaller, better code by profiling binary size on every pull request. Bloated apps have a lower install rate and higher uninstall rate, leading to decreased customer engagement and ultimately revenue loss.

Grafbase

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a data platform designed to create and develop projects locally, directly from the terminal. The company's platform deploys globally fast graph-ql application programming interfaces so that the team can go from idea to production without spending time on infrastructure, enabling developers with development experience and instant serverless backends.

Orgspace

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of management operations platform for software teams designed to help business leaders in decision-making. The company's platform is event-driven, API-accessible, and integrates with the tools to track cross-functional teams, partially allocated staff, and team interrelationships, enabling businesses to restructure efficiently and cost-effectively.

Birdie

Pre Seed Round in 2021
StandardCode makes it easy for companies to comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR-K.

Pipekit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
PipeKit helps any team run Argo workflows for data teams and DevOps. The company provides tools such as data pipeline management, Kubernetes management, resource cost controlling, built-in loggings, multi-cluster workflows management, and built-in docker registry management solutions provider.

Moving Parts

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Moving Parts is building a library of reusable UI components that snap together easily, extend the native design language and follow around localization, accessibility, and native platform conventions.

Emerge Tools

Seed Round in 2021
Emerge is building tools to monitor and reduce app size. Their actionable insights provide instant savings, while their continuous monitoring helps developers write smaller, better code by profiling binary size on every pull request. Bloated apps have a lower install rate and higher uninstall rate, leading to decreased customer engagement and ultimately revenue loss.

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.

Specto

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a monitoring platform designed to assist in performance monitoring and management in the cloud. The company's platform monitors mobile applications' performance and provides information regarding how and why the application is performing in a certain way, on their proprietary dashboard, enabling modern businesses to have access to a technology that combines data analysis with domain knowledge to determine the root causes of issues and provide clients with readily actionable insights to help improve the performance of the mobile applications.

Fylamynt

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a cloud workflow automation platform designed to build, run, manage and analyze workflows securely for any cloud with little to no code. The company's platform features workflow analysis, execution dashboards, built-in connectors for infrastructure-as-code tools and logs, and audit trails among others, enabling businesses to save time and money, comply with regulations and automate operations.

MemberStack

Seed Round in 2020
MemberStack lets you build members-only websites, dashboards, web apps, and intranets with your favorite web design tools.

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.

Almanac

Seed Round in 2020
Almanac Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a collaborative documentation tool designed to enhance knowledge sharing and project efficiency for teams in the technology sector. Founded in 2018, Almanac provides an online platform that allows users to access a rich knowledge base consisting of tools, templates, and guides specifically tailored for various roles. The platform enables teams to create, edit, and comment on documents, facilitating collaboration and customization. By combining insights from technology leaders with team practices, Almanac aims to democratize access to essential skills and knowledge, ensuring that individuals can effectively leverage information to maximize their potential. The tool is structured to support efficient workflows and make information actionable, searchable, and up-to-date.

Flowdash

Seed Round in 2020
Flowdash, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in project management and low-code internal tool development, aimed at enhancing the tracking and execution of manual workflows. Founded in 2019, Flowdash enables organizations to streamline various processes, including claims processing, risk review, content moderation, employee onboarding, vendor collaboration, and customer onboarding. By providing a platform that simplifies the creation of internal applications, Flowdash empowers users to build the tools they need without extensive coding skills. The company's mission focuses on improving workplace satisfaction by transforming how software is created and utilized within organizations.

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.

Memfault

Seed Round in 2019
Memfault Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics tailored for hardware companies, particularly within the consumer electronics, industrial automation, and IoT sectors. Its platform enables users to identify and resolve embedded software bugs, manage software updates, and monitor deployment status, allowing businesses to focus on their core product innovations. Memfault's software development kit (SDK) integrates seamlessly with existing hardware, facilitating the monitoring and deployment of firmware updates through various connectivity options, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The platform also supports error tracking by capturing backtraces, local variables, and system states during faults, which helps teams diagnose issues proactively before they affect end-users.

Gold Fig

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gold Fig Labs Inc. is a company founded in 2019 and based in the United States, focused on developing a tool designed for version control on settings pages. This innovative solution aims to streamline the management of configuration settings, enhancing usability and efficiency for its users. By providing a reliable method for tracking changes and maintaining versions of settings, Gold Fig Labs addresses a critical need in software management and configuration oversight.

Toolbox

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

Almanac

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Almanac Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a collaborative documentation tool designed to enhance knowledge sharing and project efficiency for teams in the technology sector. Founded in 2018, Almanac provides an online platform that allows users to access a rich knowledge base consisting of tools, templates, and guides specifically tailored for various roles. The platform enables teams to create, edit, and comment on documents, facilitating collaboration and customization. By combining insights from technology leaders with team practices, Almanac aims to democratize access to essential skills and knowledge, ensuring that individuals can effectively leverage information to maximize their potential. The tool is structured to support efficient workflows and make information actionable, searchable, and up-to-date.

Datamode

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Datamode is a developer of an open-source tool that focuses on enhancing data science visualization and monitoring for data engineers. The company's solution consolidates information about pipeline tasks, allowing users to quickly identify and diagnose issues related to data pipeline failures. By providing context and insights, Datamode helps businesses streamline their data management processes and improve overall efficiency. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, including a co-founder of Movity, which was acquired by Trulia in 2010, Datamode aims to support data professionals in maintaining robust and reliable data pipelines.

Memfault

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Memfault Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics tailored for hardware companies, particularly within the consumer electronics, industrial automation, and IoT sectors. Its platform enables users to identify and resolve embedded software bugs, manage software updates, and monitor deployment status, allowing businesses to focus on their core product innovations. Memfault's software development kit (SDK) integrates seamlessly with existing hardware, facilitating the monitoring and deployment of firmware updates through various connectivity options, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The platform also supports error tracking by capturing backtraces, local variables, and system states during faults, which helps teams diagnose issues proactively before they affect end-users.

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!

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

Plan

Seed Round in 2017
Managing work shouldn't be warfare. Plan lets you control your calendar, tasks, and action items from all your tools in one beautifully designed interface. So you can focus on executing projects (not people). With time, Plan gets smarter and does things like predict if your projects are on track, alleviate any roadblocks that arise, and ensure that the ball is never dropped. Get started today at https://getplan.co!

Autocode

Seed Round in 2017
An online code editor with API autocomplete, instant hosting, and a Standard Library. Sync data, build bots and customize workflows.

Thunkable

Seed Round in 2016
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!

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc. is a data visualization platform that provides software developers with tools to integrate analytics capabilities into their applications. Founded in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company offers a user-friendly studio and a flexible API, allowing developers to create embedded analytics and visualizations efficiently. Reflect's platform simplifies the design and implementation of data visualization, enabling developers to focus on enhancing the user experience while addressing product gaps and creating new revenue streams. The company was acquired by Puppet, Inc., further expanding its reach and capabilities in the data analytics space.
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