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

Co-Founder and Partner

Mike Miller

Co-Founder and Partner

Nathaniel Montana

Partner

Joe Montana

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Matt Mulvey

Partner

Past deals in Compliance

Unbound Security

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.

Greenboard

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Greenboard is a financial software company that develops software to bridge the gap between regulation and financial innovation.

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.

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.

Handle

Venture Round in 2023
Handle, Inc. is a software development company based in La Jolla, California, specializing in workflow management solutions tailored for the construction industry. Founded in 2011, the company offers a comprehensive software application that integrates to-do lists, emails, and calendars to streamline task management. Handle's technology addresses critical challenges such as late payments and access to capital, providing automation tools for lien management, deadline tracking, and documentation management. The software is widely adopted by Fortune 500 material suppliers and contractors, who rely on it for efficient handling of online payments, waivers, and lien management, ultimately ensuring that contractors and suppliers receive timely payments. Handle, Inc. was previously known as handl, inc. and officially rebranded in 2012.

Parcha AI

Seed Round in 2023
Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

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.

Two Dots

Seed Round in 2023
Two Dots, established in 2021 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in income verification and fraud prevention for property managers. Their platform offers instant document fraud detection and income verification services, including identity verification, automatic document collection, tax transcript verification, direct bank account linking, bank statement verification, and paystub verification. By leveraging automated processes and artificial intelligence, Two Dots enables underwriters to enhance their decision-making capabilities while mitigating fraud risks.

AiPrise

Seed Round in 2022
AiPrise is a global platform specializing in customer identity verification and KYC orchestration. The company offers a comprehensive solution that integrates identity verification and fraud detection APIs, allowing businesses to tailor their identity management processes. AiPrise's platform facilitates KYC onboarding through regionalized processes, enhancing customer experience and minimizing drop-offs. With a robust workflow engine, it assists fintech and cryptocurrency companies in making informed identity decisions by leveraging attributes such as phone, email, device data, and government lookups. By enabling businesses to customize their verification workflows, AiPrise effectively aids in preventing fraud during the onboarding process.

nsave

Seed Round in 2022
Nsave is a fintech startup that specializes in digital banking services, focusing on providing a secure platform for saving in various currencies, including USD, EUR, and GBP. The company aims to enhance financial inclusion by offering services that do not impose account restrictions, allowing customers to access global safe accounts for their funds. With a commitment to financial security, Nsave ensures that users can manage their savings with confidence and ease.

Alterya

Seed Round in 2022
Simple, safe, and compliant access to web3

Two Dots

Venture Round in 2022
Two Dots, established in 2021 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in income verification and fraud prevention for property managers. Their platform offers instant document fraud detection and income verification services, including identity verification, automatic document collection, tax transcript verification, direct bank account linking, bank statement verification, and paystub verification. By leveraging automated processes and artificial intelligence, Two Dots enables underwriters to enhance their decision-making capabilities while mitigating fraud risks.

Fyn

Seed Round in 2022
Fyn is a company focused on simplifying the tax management process for cryptocurrency investors worldwide. It has developed a digital asset tax engine that calculates and files crypto taxes, helping users effectively manage their capital gains and losses. The platform consolidates income gains from various exchanges, allowing individuals and accountants to accurately determine tax liabilities in accordance with the regulations of multiple countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, and India. Fyn aims to serve not only individual investors but also CPAs and tax agents by providing tools that streamline the reporting of financial details, including FBAR and FATCA compliance.

Argus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Argus is an employee trade compliance platform that creates professional services firms or asset managers, banks, or fintech. Argus lets bankers, consultants, crypto natives, and others trade their liquid assets easily in line with employer compliance restrictions, enabling firms to automate internal compliance, shrinking back-office headcount and minimize risks.

BenefitBay

Seed Round in 2021
BenefitBay is a technology company that specializes in facilitating Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) for employers. Its platform enables businesses to model, deploy, and manage ICHRA plans, ensuring compliance with regulations while providing employees with tools to choose and enroll in suitable individual health plans.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2020
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe, Inc., founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in application software that delivers security and compliance services. The company provides a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining adherence to various global security and privacy standards, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. Secureframe's platform automates compliance audits and offers ongoing monitoring to ensure that service providers manage data securely, thereby protecting both organizational interests and client privacy. Trusted by numerous fast-growing companies, Secureframe empowers businesses to streamline their compliance processes and build trust with customers.

Verifiable

Seed Round in 2020
Verifiable Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in credential verification and compliance monitoring software. Founded in 2019, Verifiable is dedicated to streamlining the verification process by automating primary source verifications and providing real-time monitoring of licenses, sanctions, and other essential records. The company develops an API that connects healthcare providers with state and federal databases, allowing users to access a multitude of primary sources from a single platform. This integration enables healthcare organizations to enhance compliance, minimize risk, and maintain patient safety. By offering features such as automated notifications for potential issues and detailed audit logs, Verifiable aims to save time and resources for healthcare entities while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Verifiable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Verifiable Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in credential verification and compliance monitoring software. Founded in 2019, Verifiable is dedicated to streamlining the verification process by automating primary source verifications and providing real-time monitoring of licenses, sanctions, and other essential records. The company develops an API that connects healthcare providers with state and federal databases, allowing users to access a multitude of primary sources from a single platform. This integration enables healthcare organizations to enhance compliance, minimize risk, and maintain patient safety. By offering features such as automated notifications for potential issues and detailed audit logs, Verifiable aims to save time and resources for healthcare entities while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Clarent

Seed Round in 2020
Clarent is a developer of compliance software tailored for senior living providers, offering a platform that consolidates data from diverse sources, including electronic health records, financial systems, and resident care records. This integration enables senior living teams to create a unified source of truth, facilitating the calculation of over 150 industry-specific key performance indicators. By organizing data into accessible reports and dashboards, Clarent empowers owners and operators to track trends, identify areas for improvement, and make informed, data-driven decisions regarding their operations and resident care.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote is a global HR solutions provider that facilitates international hiring and payroll management for distributed teams. They offer a platform designed to help companies recruit top talent worldwide, ensuring compliance with local laws while streamlining project allocation and payments. This enables businesses to expand their workforce globally, enhancing productivity and employment opportunities.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe, Inc., founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in application software that delivers security and compliance services. The company provides a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining adherence to various global security and privacy standards, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. Secureframe's platform automates compliance audits and offers ongoing monitoring to ensure that service providers manage data securely, thereby protecting both organizational interests and client privacy. Trusted by numerous fast-growing companies, Secureframe empowers businesses to streamline their compliance processes and build trust with customers.

Simetrik

Venture Round in 2019
Simetrik INC is a company based in Bogotá, Colombia, specialized in providing verification services for transactional data. Founded in 2017, it offers big data solutions that enhance financial control and automate processes for corporate clients. Simetrik's platform enables businesses to reconcile diverse sources of information, regardless of their origin or format, ensuring accuracy and reducing operational costs. Utilizing a No Code/Low Code approach, the company empowers finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automated solutions across various use cases and geographic locations. With a robust, secure big data infrastructure, Simetrik manages high data volumes, mitigating compliance and reputational risks. The company processes $75 billion in total payment volume annually and serves a notable client base, which includes major financial entities like Mercado Pago and Bancolombia.

Simetrik

Seed Round in 2019
Simetrik INC is a company based in Bogotá, Colombia, specialized in providing verification services for transactional data. Founded in 2017, it offers big data solutions that enhance financial control and automate processes for corporate clients. Simetrik's platform enables businesses to reconcile diverse sources of information, regardless of their origin or format, ensuring accuracy and reducing operational costs. Utilizing a No Code/Low Code approach, the company empowers finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automated solutions across various use cases and geographic locations. With a robust, secure big data infrastructure, Simetrik manages high data volumes, mitigating compliance and reputational risks. The company processes $75 billion in total payment volume annually and serves a notable client base, which includes major financial entities like Mercado Pago and Bancolombia.

Preclusio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Preclusio, Inc., incorporated in 2019 and based in Redwood City, California, develops privacy compliance software designed to assist companies in adhering to privacy regulations such as the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act. The company’s innovative solutions utilize machine learning to automatically identify and label personal data across extensive data infrastructures, enabling organizations to discover, inventory, map, and audit their data efficiently. By facilitating ongoing privacy compliance, Preclusio aims to enhance the protection of customers' personal information, thereby supporting businesses in navigating the complexities of data privacy management.

Remote

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Remote is a global HR solutions provider that facilitates international hiring and payroll management for distributed teams. They offer a platform designed to help companies recruit top talent worldwide, ensuring compliance with local laws while streamlining project allocation and payments. This enables businesses to expand their workforce globally, enhancing productivity and employment opportunities.

Handle

Seed Round in 2019
Handle, Inc. is a software development company based in La Jolla, California, specializing in workflow management solutions tailored for the construction industry. Founded in 2011, the company offers a comprehensive software application that integrates to-do lists, emails, and calendars to streamline task management. Handle's technology addresses critical challenges such as late payments and access to capital, providing automation tools for lien management, deadline tracking, and documentation management. The software is widely adopted by Fortune 500 material suppliers and contractors, who rely on it for efficient handling of online payments, waivers, and lien management, ultimately ensuring that contractors and suppliers receive timely payments. Handle, Inc. was previously known as handl, inc. and officially rebranded in 2012.

Rippling

Series A in 2019
Rippling is a workforce management platform that simplifies the administrative tasks associated with running a business. It offers an all-in-one solution for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management, allowing companies to efficiently manage the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to benefits administration. The platform automates various HR processes, including onboarding, offboarding, and payroll, while also providing tools for compliance monitoring and device management. By centralizing operations in a single dashboard, Rippling enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and saves time, enabling businesses to focus on growth and innovation. Its capabilities also extend to real-time financial visibility and dynamic spend policies, making it a comprehensive resource for modern organizations.

Soraban

Seed Round in 2019
Soraban is a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates routine tasks for tax firms, enhancing operational efficiency. It offers a client data collection system that assists accounting professionals in managing administrative services effectively. The platform continuously monitors and identifies any missing client information throughout the year, enabling tax firms to maintain high standards of expertise while ensuring compliance and security. By providing these services at an affordable cost, Soraban aims to empower tax professionals to focus on delivering quality service to their clients.

Whispli

Seed Round in 2018
Whispli is a secure whistleblowing management platform that allows employees to anonymously report violations of company conduct. The platform facilitates the confidential communication of issues such as fraud, harassment, discrimination, and unethical behavior through various channels, including live chat, SMS, and email. By enabling over five million employees to voice their concerns, Whispli assists organizations in identifying and addressing internal issues before they escalate and potentially damage the company's reputation and financial standing. Furthermore, Whispli fosters a culture of open feedback, which is essential for enhancing employee engagement and retention. Through its services, the company helps organizations uncover blind spots, promote accountability, and reinforce ethical practices.

Unit21

Seed Round in 2018
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2018
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2017
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

Meadow

Seed Round in 2015
Meadow is a software company focused on California's cannabis industry, providing a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance dispensary operations. Since its inception in 2014, Meadow has developed an on-demand directory for cannabis delivery and a telemedicine platform that connects patients with physicians. In 2016, the company introduced the Meadow Platform, a software-as-a-service solution tailored for cannabis retail and delivery. This platform includes features such as point of sale systems, inventory management, analytics, online and mobile ordering, delivery tracking, compliance tools, and patient intake. By streamlining these processes, Meadow enables dispensaries to operate more efficiently, serve more patients, adhere to regulations, and increase revenue. Headquartered in San Francisco, Meadow serves a diverse clientele of patients, dispensaries, and customers throughout California.

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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