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 API

Pulse AI

Seed Round in 2025
Pulse converts complex information into LLM-ready inputs. Their API supports all document formats, from PDFs to Word, Excel, etc. Pulse integrates seamlessly with any existing data pipeline in minutes without any training or complexity. It was founded in 2024 and is located in San Francisco, California, United States.

Pier

Seed Round in 2024
Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.

SignApi

Pre Seed Round in 2023
A developer-first e-signature platform.

Pier

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.

AiPrise

Seed Round in 2022
AiPrise is a platform for KYC orchestration platform that provides customer identity verification solutions. They offer a solution with pre-integrated identity verification and fraud detection APIs to pick and choose from and manage identity stack. Their security services involve KYC, kyb, identity verification, and compliance.

Sunlight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sunlight is an API to change the card-on-file with apps and subscription services. Fintechs use Sunlight to automatically make their cards top-of-wallet as soon as they're issued.

Duplo

Seed Round in 2022
Duplo is a financial technology company focused on providing embedded payment solutions for B2B businesses in Africa. The company offers a platform that enables businesses to automate payment inflows, reconcile transactions at scale, and manage mass payouts efficiently. Through its APIs and user interfaces, Duplo facilitates the collection and attribution of cashless payments, addressing various payment operations needs for its clients. Additionally, the platform allows businesses to enhance their financial service offerings to customers, streamlining the overall payment process in the region.

Rutter

Series A in 2022
Rutter specializes in creating a universal API that connects with various commerce, accounting, and payments platforms. This integration allows users to access a comprehensive view of their business operations. The company focuses on building, scaling, and maintaining these integrations, offering both accounting and commerce APIs. Rutter's solutions cater to multiple use cases, including revenue-based financing, small and medium-sized business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement, thereby facilitating seamless data flow and operational efficiency for its clients.

Duplo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Duplo is a financial technology company focused on providing embedded payment solutions for B2B businesses in Africa. The company offers a platform that enables businesses to automate payment inflows, reconcile transactions at scale, and manage mass payouts efficiently. Through its APIs and user interfaces, Duplo facilitates the collection and attribution of cashless payments, addressing various payment operations needs for its clients. Additionally, the platform allows businesses to enhance their financial service offerings to customers, streamlining the overall payment process in the region.

Slope

Seed Round in 2021
Slope is a financial platform developer that provides a range of payment solutions for businesses. Its platform allows clients to manage various aspects of financial transactions, including loan processing, underwriting, debt collection, and payout management, once goods or services are delivered. By offering options such as credit card acceptance and invoice link generation, Slope enables businesses to facilitate installment payments at checkout. This approach not only helps improve cash flow and financial security for businesses but also reduces administrative burdens and enhances the overall customer experience. The platform is designed for easy integration with existing systems, making it a versatile solution for companies seeking to streamline their financial operations.

Dots

Seed Round in 2021
Dots is a multichannel payouts API that automates manual processes for marketplaces. Dots' API lets a marketplace pay their sellers in the ways they want to be paid, including Venmo, Paypal, ACH and Zelle. As more Americans earn a living by becoming a 1099 worker, marketplaces need to provide flexible payout options and we make supporting these payouts easy through a single API.

Grafbase

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Grafbase, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a data platform that enables developers to create and deploy projects efficiently. The platform focuses on fast global deployment of GraphQL application programming interfaces, allowing teams to transition from concept to production without the need for extensive infrastructure management. Grafbase emphasizes secure self-hosted deployment options, superior query speed, and advanced governance, facilitating reliable API management and unified data access for enterprises. Its solutions are designed to enhance the development experience by providing instant serverless backends, streamlining the process for developers.

Orgspace

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Orgspace offers a people management platform tailored for software organizations, focusing on the needs of operational leaders. The platform is designed to aid business decision-making through its event-driven and API-accessible architecture. It integrates seamlessly with various tools to monitor cross-functional teams, partially allocated staff, and team interrelationships. This capability allows organizations to restructure their operations efficiently and cost-effectively, enhancing overall management and collaboration within software teams.

Mentum

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mentum is a company based in San Francisco, California, that provides an API designed for fintech firms, focusing on investment services. In addition to its fintech solutions, Mentum has developed a business intelligence and analytics platform aimed at enhancing supply chain processes for organizations. This platform features customizable dashboards, real-time data visualization, and advanced reporting capabilities, allowing enterprises to analyze complex data sets effectively, improve operational efficiency, and derive strategic insights.

Tuli

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tuli is a London-based MedTech company focused on transforming pharmacies into local health hubs by providing essential healthcare services, such as blood testing, directly within communities. The company has developed a global healthcare platform that enables pharmacies to function as diagnostic centers. Utilizing industry-standard encryption, the platform ensures secure storage, access, and transfer of medical information between healthcare providers and patients. This innovative approach allows individuals to store and access their personal electronic medical records conveniently, enhancing the accessibility of healthcare services in their neighborhoods.

Forage

Venture Round in 2021
Forage is a payments company that enables merchants to accept EBT SNAP payments through a unified API, enhancing access to essential goods for customers utilizing government assistance programs. The company focuses on simplifying the integration of EBT payments in both online and in-person environments, allowing businesses to reach a wider customer base. This approach supports food security initiatives and fosters inclusivity in commerce. Forage also provides ongoing support and resources to assist merchants in effectively utilizing their payment solutions while navigating the regulatory landscape surrounding EBT transactions. By streamlining payment processing, Forage aims to improve the efficiency of government subsidies and promote equitable digital access for communities.

Rutter

Seed Round in 2021
Rutter specializes in creating a universal API that connects with various commerce, accounting, and payments platforms. This integration allows users to access a comprehensive view of their business operations. The company focuses on building, scaling, and maintaining these integrations, offering both accounting and commerce APIs. Rutter's solutions cater to multiple use cases, including revenue-based financing, small and medium-sized business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement, thereby facilitating seamless data flow and operational efficiency for its clients.

Adapt API

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Adapt API is a venture-backed startup focused on creating the foundational infrastructure for the Property & Casualty insurance sector. The company has developed an insurance digitization platform that offers a robust application programming interface (API), facilitating straightforward and dependable access to critical insurance data. This innovative solution enables businesses to automate their workflows by utilizing accurate and reliable information, thereby enhancing efficiency and streamlining operations in the insurance industry.

Embed Financial Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Embed provides modern securities execution, clearing, settlement, and custody APIs for fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, and trust companies.

Feathery

Seed Round in 2021
Feathery provides a low-code platform that facilitates the creation of customizable forms and user journeys, catering to critical industries such as insurance, financial services, and healthcare. The platform enables product teams to build data intake workflows with ease, offering features such as automatic deployment and SEO indexing. By supporting popular search engines and JavaScript frameworks, Feathery enhances the user experience while granting businesses greater ownership, speed, and control over their data collection processes. This streamlined approach allows organizations to effectively manage their data intake needs while maintaining flexibility and efficiency.

Enode

Seed Round in 2021
Enode is a company focused on advancing the transition to a sustainable energy system by connecting and optimizing energy devices. Through its digital platform, Enode's APIs allow businesses to seamlessly integrate users' energy hardware, such as electric vehicles, solar inverters, home batteries, and thermostats, into their applications. This streamlined approach significantly reduces the time and resources needed for integration and ongoing maintenance, making it easier for companies to develop energy management applications. By optimizing energy consumption and enabling participation in flexible energy markets, Enode supports clients in their efforts to contribute to a zero-carbon energy grid.

Gigs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service provider that offers wireless subscriptions tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices. The company specializes in delivering custom voice and data plans, enabling businesses to create their own mobile services while retaining control over branding and pricing. By utilizing Gigs' API and white-label solutions, companies across various sectors, including telecommunications, technology, and retail, can monetize their audiences effectively. Gigs aims to enhance client conversion rates, increase subscription revenue, and reduce product returns, particularly for wearable and IoT devices.

Calixa

Seed Round in 2021
Calixa is a developer of a customer management platform that consolidates customer data and tools into a single, user-friendly product. The platform integrates with various third-party services, such as Stripe, Zendesk, Intercom, and Sendgrid, allowing teams to access and manage all customer-related information in one interface. By replacing a fragmented collection of tools and processes, Calixa streamlines customer management tasks, enabling users to understand their customers better, track segments, automate alerts, and take immediate action. This comprehensive solution aims to enhance efficiency and improve customer interactions for businesses.

Grouparoo

Seed Round in 2020
Grouparoo is an open-source customer data framework that facilitates the synchronization of data from data warehouses to various third-party tools. The platform is designed to enhance the reliability, accessibility, and actionability of data, enabling users to create open-core applications that simplify and automate the data syncing process. Additionally, Grouparoo offers pre-built connectors, which provide users with greater control over their data and infrastructure, streamlining the integration of data across different systems.

Restream

Series A in 2020
Restream is a multi-streaming solution that allows producers to analyze and interact with their viewers across platforms. Using the platform, users can stream live video to any live stream service. The platform includes ingesting service in over 80 countries serving a million users. Capabilities include analytics, scheduling, shared chat, monitoring, and seamless integration with encoders. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Routable

Series A in 2020
Routable, Inc. operates a business-to-business payments platform that facilitates the automation of invoicing and bill payments. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables accounts payable and receivable teams to streamline their processes by automating bill payments, identifying errors, and requesting necessary authorizations. Routable's solution is designed to enhance cash flow management and reduce costs for finance and accounting departments. The platform's API allows users to quickly build a payments infrastructure, making it easier for businesses to send and receive payments efficiently.

Grouparoo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Grouparoo is an open-source customer data framework that facilitates the synchronization of data from data warehouses to various third-party tools. The platform is designed to enhance the reliability, accessibility, and actionability of data, enabling users to create open-core applications that simplify and automate the data syncing process. Additionally, Grouparoo offers pre-built connectors, which provide users with greater control over their data and infrastructure, streamlining the integration of data across different systems.

Fazz

Series B in 2020
Fazz is a fintech company that provides digital financial services aimed at promoting financial inclusion across Southeast Asia. Founded in 2016 and based in Singapore and Indonesia, Fazz enables merchants, ranging from small and medium enterprises to large corporations, to accept payments, transfer funds, and access banking and investment services. The company offers specialized solutions such as Fazz Agen, which serves micro and small businesses in Indonesia, and Fazz Business, a comprehensive account designed to support startups and larger organizations in managing their financial needs. By merging PayFazz and Xfers, Fazz has strengthened its position in the market, focusing on delivering diverse financial services to underserved segments, including the unbanked.

Fly.io

Seed Round in 2020
Fly.io provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to connect website owners with their customers effectively. The platform allows users to build application servers using JavaScript, enabling them to write, test, and run code locally. It subsequently facilitates the deployment of applications across a distributed network of servers, which accept visitor traffic and execute middleware on requests. This process ensures that website owners can securely direct their visitors to their respective sites with minimal effort. By positioning application servers closer to users, Fly.io enhances the performance and scalability of web applications, thereby improving the overall user experience.

Airbyte

Seed Round in 2020
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform automates the creation of data pipelines using both pre-built and custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently gather analytics from all users, including those employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on simplifying data integration, Airbyte empowers organizations to streamline their data processes and enhance their analytical capabilities.

API Tracker

Pre Seed Round in 2020
API Tracker is a software company that specializes in tracking and managing APIs. It monitors all API integrations, increases reliability, and features a simple deployment model. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Belvo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Belvo is an open finance API platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2019. The platform allows users to connect their financial accounts to applications, facilitating access to and interpretation of financial data from end-users. By enabling businesses to understand user behavior and manage financial transactions, Belvo supports financial innovators in creating efficient solutions and generating new revenue streams. The platform is designed to provide a scalable way for developers to integrate financial information, enhancing the overall user experience in the financial services sector.

Embed Financial Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Embed provides modern securities execution, clearing, settlement, and custody APIs for fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, and trust companies.

Simetrik

Venture Round in 2019
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Naborly

Seed Round in 2019
Naborly has transformed the rental industry by providing a comprehensive background screening platform that allows landlords to efficiently verify tenant identity, income, and employment. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Naborly offers an accessible API that generates user-friendly reports, including free credit reports and criminal background checks. In addition to aiding landlords in making informed rental decisions, Naborly empowers tenants by enabling them to build credit through their rent payments and facilitating the digital sharing of their rental applications with multiple landlords. Tenants also retain control over their data, with the ability to revoke access whenever they choose, ensuring a balance of security and privacy in the rental process.

Simetrik

Seed Round in 2019
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Opstrace

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Opstrace, Inc. is a company that develops and operates a managed observability platform designed to enhance the efficiency of cloud-native and open-source software. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows users to ingest logs, metrics, and traces, transforming this data into actionable insights through user-friendly dashboards, alerts, and queries. The solution is characterized by its secure, multi-tenant APIs and authenticated endpoints, ensuring that data remains within the user's network. Opstrace positions itself as a cost-effective alternative to popular metered services, offering a scalable and well-tested system that seamlessly integrates with existing infrastructures.

Unit21

Seed Round in 2018
Unit21 is a platform that provides no-code tools and services for risk and compliance teams. Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries. It is built with state-of-the-art security practices by security experts who have defended large systems against hackers. The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

Fazz

Series A in 2018
Fazz is a fintech company that provides digital financial services aimed at promoting financial inclusion across Southeast Asia. Founded in 2016 and based in Singapore and Indonesia, Fazz enables merchants, ranging from small and medium enterprises to large corporations, to accept payments, transfer funds, and access banking and investment services. The company offers specialized solutions such as Fazz Agen, which serves micro and small businesses in Indonesia, and Fazz Business, a comprehensive account designed to support startups and larger organizations in managing their financial needs. By merging PayFazz and Xfers, Fazz has strengthened its position in the market, focusing on delivering diverse financial services to underserved segments, including the unbanked.

Activeloop

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Activeloop offers a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the management and scaling of data pipelines for machine learning applications. Their flagship product, Deep Lake, serves as a specialized database for artificial intelligence, optimized for deep learning and large language model applications. It allows users to store a variety of data types, including text, images, audio, and videos, in a single location, while providing capabilities such as data streaming, version control, and vector search. Deep Lake simplifies the deployment of enterprise-grade LLM-based products and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is serverless and capable of handling datasets of any size, making it suitable for organizations working on complex machine learning projects. Activeloop counts notable companies such as Bayer Radiology and Matterport among its users. The founding team comprises individuals with backgrounds from prestigious institutions like Princeton and Stanford, along with experience from industry leaders like Google and Tesla.

Observe.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Observe.AI specializes in enhancing contact center performance through its advanced conversation intelligence platform. The company employs a highly accurate artificial intelligence engine to analyze 100% of customer interactions across various channels, including voice, email, and chat. By transforming these conversations into actionable insights, Observe.AI enables businesses to improve their frontline team performance through coaching and workflow automation. This real-time intelligence allows companies to respond swiftly and effectively, leading to increased sales conversions and improved customer retention. Notable clients, such as Bill.com, Public Storage, and Accolade, collaborate with Observe.AI to drive better outcomes across their operations.

Naborly

Seed Round in 2018
Naborly has transformed the rental industry by providing a comprehensive background screening platform that allows landlords to efficiently verify tenant identity, income, and employment. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Naborly offers an accessible API that generates user-friendly reports, including free credit reports and criminal background checks. In addition to aiding landlords in making informed rental decisions, Naborly empowers tenants by enabling them to build credit through their rent payments and facilitating the digital sharing of their rental applications with multiple landlords. Tenants also retain control over their data, with the ability to revoke access whenever they choose, ensuring a balance of security and privacy in the rental process.

Taxa

Seed Round in 2018
Taxa is a developer of a blockchain-based infrastructure platform that facilitates the creation of interactive Web 3.0 applications. Utilizing advanced trusted computing technology, Taxa enhances the performance, privacy, and usability of various applications and frameworks. The platform provides essential features such as data confidentiality and on-demand resizable off-chain CPU resources, along with library support. This infrastructure is designed to be easily integrated with any smart contract network, allowing users to transform their innovative ideas into functional products while ensuring privacy and security.

Restream

Seed Round in 2018
Restream is a multi-streaming solution that allows producers to analyze and interact with their viewers across platforms. Using the platform, users can stream live video to any live stream service. The platform includes ingesting service in over 80 countries serving a million users. Capabilities include analytics, scheduling, shared chat, monitoring, and seamless integration with encoders. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Truepill

Venture Round in 2017
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Routable

Seed Round in 2017
Routable, Inc. operates a business-to-business payments platform that facilitates the automation of invoicing and bill payments. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables accounts payable and receivable teams to streamline their processes by automating bill payments, identifying errors, and requesting necessary authorizations. Routable's solution is designed to enhance cash flow management and reduce costs for finance and accounting departments. The platform's API allows users to quickly build a payments infrastructure, making it easier for businesses to send and receive payments efficiently.

BloomAPI

Seed Round in 2017
BloomAPI strive to democratize access to healthcare data. To unlock a future where all EMRs are interoperable and where vendors can't hold data hostage for their competitive advantage. They are helping to make healthcare technology easier by connecting patients, providers, and payers.

Prelim

Seed Round in 2017
Prelim is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online platform designed for financial institutions, including banks and lenders, to enhance their digital interactions with customers. The platform streamlines the consumer experience throughout various stages, from point of sale to daily account management. By automating traditionally paper-based processes, Prelim enables rapid account opening for both new and existing customers, allowing them to create accounts within minutes from any device. Additionally, the platform serves as a no-code tool, facilitating the development of customer-facing applications for banks and financial enterprises.

Fly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Fly.io provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to connect website owners with their customers effectively. The platform allows users to build application servers using JavaScript, enabling them to write, test, and run code locally. It subsequently facilitates the deployment of applications across a distributed network of servers, which accept visitor traffic and execute middleware on requests. This process ensures that website owners can securely direct their visitors to their respective sites with minimal effort. By positioning application servers closer to users, Fly.io enhances the performance and scalability of web applications, thereby improving the overall user experience.

Castle

Seed Round in 2016
Castle enables online businesses of all sizes to detect and prevent user account fraud, a technology previously only available to banks and large financial institutions. Whether you’re building a bitcoin service, e-commerce store, mobile app, or any other customer-facing application, Castle's API's lets you add account hijack protection. Castle tracks fraudsters based on device fingerprint, keystrokes, site browsing history, and hundreds of other signals. Whenever something suspicious occurs, both the administrator and account owner are alerted and can immediately take appropriate action.

BloomAPI

Pre Seed Round in 2016
BloomAPI strive to democratize access to healthcare data. To unlock a future where all EMRs are interoperable and where vendors can't hold data hostage for their competitive advantage. They are helping to make healthcare technology easier by connecting patients, providers, and payers.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect is a data visualization platform that simplifies the process of integrating data visuals into web and mobile applications. By offering an easy-to-use studio and a flexible API, Reflect enables developers to quickly design and implement embedded analytics, allowing them to focus on enhancing user experiences without getting bogged down by technical complexities. The platform is designed to help clients efficiently access, build, and iterate on analytics data, addressing product gaps and facilitating the creation of new revenue streams.
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