Liquid 2 Ventures

Liquid 2 Ventures, established in 2015, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. It specializes in seed-stage investments, focusing on early-stage technology companies, particularly in the software and TMT sectors. The firm, founded by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, aims to support and nurture startups during their initial growth phases.

Michael Ma

Partner and Founder

Mike Miller

General Partner and Founder

Joe Montana

Founder and Managing Partner

Nathaniel Montana

Partner

Matt Mulvey

Partner

Past deals in Fraud Detection

SafetyKit

Seed Round in 2023
SafetyKit automates Trust and Safety. SafetyKit's AI agents allow Operations, Risk, and Trust teams to scale review, enforcement, and appeals without throwing more people at the problem. This means faster, better decisions than traditional outsourced reviewers. The founders are ex-Airbnb, Meta, and Stripe, where they owned compliance, onboarding, and supportability reviews.

Two Dots

Seed Round in 2023
Two Dots is a Santa Monica-based company founded in 2021 that specializes in income verification and fraud prevention for property managers. The company offers a comprehensive platform that provides instant document fraud detection and income verification services, facilitating the underwriting process. Their solutions include identity verification, automatic document collection, tax transcript verification, direct bank account linking, bank statement verification, and paystub verification. By leveraging automation and artificial intelligence, Two Dots aims to enhance the efficiency of underwriters, enabling them to prevent fraud and make informed underwriting decisions.

AiPrise

Seed Round in 2022
AiPrise is a global platform specializing in customer identity verification and KYC orchestration. It offers a suite of pre-integrated APIs for identity verification and fraud detection, allowing businesses to tailor their identity management processes. The platform enhances KYC onboarding by incorporating regional workflows, which improves customer experience and minimizes drop-off rates during the verification process. Its advanced workflow engine is particularly beneficial for fintech and cryptocurrency companies, as it helps make informed identity decisions by analyzing various data points, including phone numbers, email addresses, device attributes, and government databases. By enabling businesses to customize their verification workflows, AiPrise effectively aids in preventing fraudulent users from accessing their services.

Dynamo AI

Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.

Two Dots

Venture Round in 2022
Two Dots is a Santa Monica-based company founded in 2021 that specializes in income verification and fraud prevention for property managers. The company offers a comprehensive platform that provides instant document fraud detection and income verification services, facilitating the underwriting process. Their solutions include identity verification, automatic document collection, tax transcript verification, direct bank account linking, bank statement verification, and paystub verification. By leveraging automation and artificial intelligence, Two Dots aims to enhance the efficiency of underwriters, enabling them to prevent fraud and make informed underwriting decisions.

Dgraph

Seed Round in 2022
Dgraph Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing and operating a graph database. Founded in 2016, Dgraph offers a low-latency solution designed for efficient retrieval of structured data, catering to both small startups and large enterprises. Its flagship product, Slash Enterprise, is a fully-managed and serverless solution that supports terabytes of data and operates on dedicated, multi-zone clusters across major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. The company's graph database is particularly suited for real-time user queries and addresses various use cases, including semantic search, pattern matching, and fraud detection, enabling clients to effectively manage, represent, and visualize large datasets.

Dynamo AI

Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.

Berbix

Seed Round in 2019
Berbix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in photo identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. Founded in 2018 by former product and engineering leaders from Airbnb, Berbix offers a SaaS platform that enables businesses to instantly validate photo IDs, driver licenses, and passports. The service is designed to enhance customer acquisition and compliance by providing rapid identity checks that can be completed in as little as two seconds. Berbix's solution is particularly beneficial for industries such as fintech, healthcare, micro-mobility, and age-restricted goods, allowing businesses to customize their fraud prevention strategies. The company is headquartered in Sacramento, California, and has received backing from prominent investors, including Y Combinator and Initialized Capital. Through its user-friendly software, Berbix helps organizations effectively manage identity verification and reduce the risks associated with fraudulent activities.

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Inscribe offers a way for fintech and financial services organizations to automate their manual reviews, reduce fraud losses, and increase decision accuracy. By automating document reviews and improving fraud detection, companies can increase efficiency and reduce operational costs. Founded in 2017, Inscribe is trusted by leading companies like BlueVine, Petal, Fair, and Ramp. With investors from Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Crosslink Capital, and Foundry Group, Inscribe has a global footprint with locations in North America and Europe.

Unit21

Seed Round in 2018
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing no-code solutions for risk and compliance operations. Founded in 2018, Unit21 offers a platform that includes an application programming interface and a dashboard designed to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and various other risks across multiple industries. The platform encompasses features such as case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, and analytics and reporting. By utilizing state-of-the-art security practices, Unit21 aims to protect businesses against adversaries and enhance their operational efficiency in combating financial scams.

Berbix

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Berbix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in photo identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. Founded in 2018 by former product and engineering leaders from Airbnb, Berbix offers a SaaS platform that enables businesses to instantly validate photo IDs, driver licenses, and passports. The service is designed to enhance customer acquisition and compliance by providing rapid identity checks that can be completed in as little as two seconds. Berbix's solution is particularly beneficial for industries such as fintech, healthcare, micro-mobility, and age-restricted goods, allowing businesses to customize their fraud prevention strategies. The company is headquartered in Sacramento, California, and has received backing from prominent investors, including Y Combinator and Initialized Capital. Through its user-friendly software, Berbix helps organizations effectively manage identity verification and reduce the risks associated with fraudulent activities.

Castle

Seed Round in 2016
Castle is a technology company that specializes in user account fraud detection and prevention for online businesses. It offers API-based solutions that enable businesses, regardless of size, to protect their customers' accounts from unauthorized access. Castle's platform tracks and analyzes user behavior in real-time, using a wide range of signals such as device fingerprints, keystroke dynamics, and browsing history. When suspicious activity is detected, both the business administrator and the account owner are promptly alerted, allowing for swift and appropriate action.

SafetyKit

Pre Seed Round in 1923
SafetyKit automates Trust and Safety. SafetyKit's AI agents allow Operations, Risk, and Trust teams to scale review, enforcement, and appeals without throwing more people at the problem. This means faster, better decisions than traditional outsourced reviewers. The founders are ex-Airbnb, Meta, and Stripe, where they owned compliance, onboarding, and supportability reviews.
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