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 Developer Tools

SignApi

Pre Seed Round in 2023
SignApi is a business specializing in e-signature solutions. It focuses on providing a developer-friendly platform to simplify and expedite the digital document signing process for corporate use. Currently, the company operates in a stealth mode.

Outerbase

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Outerbase is a developer of a database platform that simplifies data management by allowing users to view, edit, and modify data without the need for SQL coding. The platform provides a user-friendly interface that facilitates backend management and offers collaborative tools for data pipeline preparation. With its focus on enhancing performance and usability, Outerbase enables both users and developers to efficiently manage and run queries on data, streamlining the overall data handling process.

Trigger.Dev

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Trigger.dev is a workflow automation platform that assists developers in managing complex tasks efficiently. The platform streamlines the creation of workflows by leveraging APIs, allowing users to trigger actions based on events, schedules, or manual inputs. It simplifies API calls by handling authentication, making integration more accessible. Additionally, Trigger.dev monitors API performance, providing alerts for any issues that arise, thereby ensuring reliable operation. This capability enables companies to utilize application programming interfaces at scale without the need for extensive server infrastructure, supporting both internal and third-party applications.

Pierre

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pierre is a platform for building software.

PaxCorp

Pre Seed Round in 2023
PaxCorp imagines a world where developers, designers, and no-coders can all create software, together.

Hathora

Seed Round in 2023
Hathora is a developer of a multiplayer gaming development framework that aims to simplify the process of building and launching online games. The company provides a cloud platform that supports the deployment and scaling of game servers globally. Its offerings include features such as autoscaling, multi-region deployments, monitoring analytics, and migration management. This allows developers to concentrate on the specific functionalities of their games while the Hathora framework handles the underlying infrastructure and necessary abstractions for prototyping and scaling. By streamlining these processes, Hathora enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of game development.

dWallet Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
dWallet Labs is a developer of a cybersecurity platform that specializes in blockchain technology. The company focuses on creating trustless access control solutions that enhance both offensive and defensive cybersecurity measures. Its platform provides a secure, programmable, and decentralized access layer for web3, utilizing dynamic wallets to sign transactions across various blockchain networks. By implementing universally adopted signing algorithms, dWallet Labs enables organizations to revolutionize the way digital assets are stored, utilized, and accessed, effectively bridging the gap between digital assets and the real world with a fully decentralized layer of dynamic and stateful access control.

Dropbase

Venture Round in 2022
Dropbase is a developer platform to build internal tools and apps for customer success, support, and operation teams. With Dropbase, you can build admin panels, billing support dashboards, and other internal tools in minutes, with just SQL and Python.

Highlight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Highlight develops a platform for debugging apps and gives full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance metrics. They believe that by giving people the best tools to solve customer and engineering issues, they can spend more time building their business, and less time searching through logs, manually trying to reproduce errors, and investing too early in their support processes.

Twisp

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Twisp is a developer-focused company that offers a cloud-based financial database equipped with accounting primitives. Its platform is designed to facilitate the creation of core financial ledger systems, allowing developers to manage credit and debit transactions, balances, and financial insights efficiently. By providing tools that enable the development of composable, extensible, and scalable financial ledgers, Twisp simplifies the process of integrating and reconciling external systems of record. This approach empowers users to test their systems quickly, adopt new features incrementally, and utilize a pay-per-use model, thereby enhancing overall financial transaction management.

Battlesnake

Seed Round in 2021
Battlesnake is an online platform that engages users in programming through multiplayer gaming. It offers a unique environment for individuals to learn new technologies, enhance their coding skills, and participate in programming competitions. By fostering collaboration and celebrating diverse skill levels, Battlesnake not only provides a fun and interactive way to practice programming but also supports the development of communities centered around open-source software. The platform is designed to make programming accessible and enjoyable for friends and colleagues alike.

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.

Moving Parts

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Moving Parts develops a scalable library of reusable mobile user interface components designed to facilitate the creation of design systems and core frameworks. The company focuses on providing components that easily integrate with one another, enhancing the native design language while adhering to localization, accessibility, and native platform conventions. This approach enables designers and engineers to effectively address real-world challenges in the design and development of native mobile applications.

Pipekit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pipekit is a developer of a workflow management platform that assists enterprises in scaling their data pipelines. The platform is designed to facilitate the management of Argo Workflows for data teams and DevOps, providing a range of tools including data pipeline management, Kubernetes management, resource cost control, built-in logging, multi-cluster workflow management, and integrated Docker registry management. By enabling clients to efficiently run distributed jobs on Kubernetes clusters, Pipekit helps organizations optimize their data workflows and enhance operational efficiency.

Aviator

Venture Round in 2021
Aviator is a developer productivity platform founded in 2021 by Ankit Jain in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on enhancing the efficiency of software teams by automating tedious workflows and repetitive tasks involved in the software development process. Aviator's tools assist teams in managing various development activities, such as validating, testing, reviewing, merging, and monitoring, while also providing analytics on workflow efficiency. By streamlining these necessary actions, Aviator aims to improve team velocity, reduce time to production, and maintain healthy systems, enabling software teams of all sizes to build faster and more effectively.

Fix

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fix is an all-in-one dashboard for security engineers. Prioritize top risks by combining user, resource, and configuration data. Plus, get actionable remediation recommendations for your DevOps team.

Plumbr.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Plumbr is changing the way software is developed - and making software engineers more efficient in the process!

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.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Battlesnake

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Battlesnake is an online platform that engages users in programming through multiplayer gaming. It offers a unique environment for individuals to learn new technologies, enhance their coding skills, and participate in programming competitions. By fostering collaboration and celebrating diverse skill levels, Battlesnake not only provides a fun and interactive way to practice programming but also supports the development of communities centered around open-source software. The platform is designed to make programming accessible and enjoyable for friends and colleagues alike.

Specto

Seed Round in 2021
Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform is designed for developers, allowing them to collect essential metrics and profiles with minimal code integration. Specto's proprietary dashboard provides insights into mobile application performance, helping businesses understand the reasons behind specific performance issues. By combining data analysis with industry expertise, the platform enables clients to identify root causes and offers actionable recommendations to enhance application performance. Specto emphasizes ease of integration and provides hands-on support to ensure a smooth user experience.

Artifact

Seed Round in 2020
Artifact is a developer of a qualitative data insights platform that helps businesses understand customer needs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Artifact's platform collects qualitative data at key stages of the customer journey and employs artificial intelligence to generate analyst-grade reports. These reports reveal meaningful patterns and changes in historical insights, topics, and sentiments, allowing users to compare data across different customer cohorts and milestones. By providing these insights, Artifact enables clients to make informed decisions that align with their business goals and enhance customer impact.

DeepSource

Seed Round in 2020
DeepSource is a modern static analysis platform that provides developers with tools to improve code quality and security. The platform continuously analyzes code for vulnerabilities, performance issues, and potential bugs, allowing developers to identify and resolve these problems before deployment. By serving as a central hub for code health, DeepSource equips organizations with the necessary resources to build maintainable and secure software. It helps developers focus on critical issues, ensuring that they can act on key metrics and maintain high standards in their coding practices.

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.

PostHog

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform designed for developers, founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that includes product analytics, session recording, funnels, feature flags, and experimentation, all integrated into a single solution. By automating event tracking and user data collection, PostHog enables engineers to understand product usage and user behavior more effectively. This functionality allows development teams to create applications that are better tailored to their users' needs.

Draftbit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Draftbit, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that offers a drag-and-drop software platform for building mobile applications. Founded in 2017, Draftbit enables users, whether designers or developers, to create cross-platform native iOS and Android apps quickly and efficiently. The platform allows teams to design applications visually, without the need for extensive coding, and facilitates the export of clean, well-documented code and libraries. This approach empowers startups and business owners to launch and iterate on their mobile applications in a matter of minutes, streamlining the development process and reducing time to market.

Nomisma

Pre Seed Round in 2018
They provide ideas regarding the potential transferability and application of straightforward financial market insights into the blockchain-based virtual commodity or ‘Cryptoasset’ universe.Their goal is to design a blockchain-based toolkit that enables the application of existing financial engineering tools to the Cryptoasset universe. Armed with this toolkit, users can tailor instruments matching their desired risk preferences. They are self-funded and rely on voluntary contributions of time, ideas, and brainstorming capacity. They will continually develop, refine and present ideas to the Cryptoasset user and academic community in an open dialogue for further consideration.

Thunkable

Venture Round in 2018
Thunkable is a U.S.-based company that offers a platform for users to create mobile applications without extensive coding knowledge. Originating from MIT's App Inventor and participating in YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable provides a free drag-and-drop interface that simplifies the app development process. Users can design applications using built-in templates and make real-time changes, which can be instantly previewed on their devices through the Thunkable mobile app. The platform supports automatic formatting for deployment across major operating systems, including Android and iOS, enabling individuals to build and publish native apps efficiently. By eliminating the need for large development tools or complex coding, Thunkable empowers users to create functional applications easily and share them directly with others or upload them to app stores.

Supermedium

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is a developer of a virtual reality browser application that allows users to explore web content in an immersive environment. The company, known for its pioneering work in WebVR and the creation of A-Frame, focuses on offering a range of utilities, starting with a comic book reader. Its application enables users to access websites utilizing standard web technologies, featuring mini-games, art installations, journalistic pieces, and virtual environments without the need for installation or reliance on an application store. Through this innovative approach, Supermedium aims to enhance users' entertainment experiences in virtual reality.

Dock

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Dock is a Swiss company established in 2017 that offers a platform for businesses and developers to create, manage, and present digital credentials that are instantly verifiable through blockchain technology. The platform allows users to consolidate their profiles, reputations, and networks into a single, shareable source, enabling better control over the information they share and the digital credentials they use in daily life. With a standalone blockchain and an integrated payment and incentivization token, Dock facilitates seamless adoption and interoperability, supported by a trusted network of validators. The company aims to address fundamental issues related to data capture, sharing, and control in the digital age. Its leadership team includes industry veterans, with Nick Lambert serving as CEO and Elina Cadouri as COO.

Dock

Venture Round in 2018
Dock is a Swiss company established in 2017 that offers a platform for businesses and developers to create, manage, and present digital credentials that are instantly verifiable through blockchain technology. The platform allows users to consolidate their profiles, reputations, and networks into a single, shareable source, enabling better control over the information they share and the digital credentials they use in daily life. With a standalone blockchain and an integrated payment and incentivization token, Dock facilitates seamless adoption and interoperability, supported by a trusted network of validators. The company aims to address fundamental issues related to data capture, sharing, and control in the digital age. Its leadership team includes industry veterans, with Nick Lambert serving as CEO and Elina Cadouri as COO.

PullRequest

Seed Round in 2017
PullRequest, Inc. is a company that specializes in online code reviewing services, founded in May 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company offers a code review platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance code quality by identifying security threats, preventing crashes, and resolving performance issues before deployment. PullRequest connects development teams with a network of code review experts, facilitating faster code delivery while maintaining high standards of quality. By streamlining the code review process, PullRequest aims to reduce the overall development lifecycle costs for businesses.

Retool

Seed Round in 2017
Retool offers a tool development platform that enables businesses to create custom business tools without requiring programming knowledge. The platform allows users to build interfaces for displaying and manipulating data quickly and accurately, facilitating the creation of custom workflows. This capability allows companies to concentrate on their core products and expertise while equipping their operational development teams with the necessary tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. By simplifying the tool-building process, Retool empowers organizations to streamline their operations and improve productivity.

Autocode

Seed Round in 2017
Autocode is a developer of an online code editor platform that facilitates the creation and deployment of web services for businesses. The platform offers features such as API integration, instant hosting, and a Standard Library, which allows users to sync data, build bots, and customize workflows. By enabling clients to deploy updates independently of their existing infrastructure, Autocode streamlines the process of maintaining consistent code and workflows while enhancing operational efficiency.

PullRequest

Seed Round in 2017
PullRequest, Inc. is a company that specializes in online code reviewing services, founded in May 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company offers a code review platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance code quality by identifying security threats, preventing crashes, and resolving performance issues before deployment. PullRequest connects development teams with a network of code review experts, facilitating faster code delivery while maintaining high standards of quality. By streamlining the code review process, PullRequest aims to reduce the overall development lifecycle costs for businesses.

Pagedraw

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Pagedraw is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in transforming website mock-ups and designs into functional code. Founded in 2016, Pagedraw provides a user-friendly UI builder that allows designers to input their drawings into an editor. The software automatically generates production-ready code, including HTML, CSS, JSX, ERB, and PHP, which can be seamlessly integrated into GitHub. By automating the translation of graphics into semantic and dynamic code, Pagedraw enables web design teams to streamline their workflow without compromising on design quality or coding standards.

Thunkable

Seed Round in 2016
Thunkable is a U.S.-based company that offers a platform for users to create mobile applications without extensive coding knowledge. Originating from MIT's App Inventor and participating in YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable provides a free drag-and-drop interface that simplifies the app development process. Users can design applications using built-in templates and make real-time changes, which can be instantly previewed on their devices through the Thunkable mobile app. The platform supports automatic formatting for deployment across major operating systems, including Android and iOS, enabling individuals to build and publish native apps efficiently. By eliminating the need for large development tools or complex coding, Thunkable empowers users to create functional applications easily and share them directly with others or upload them to app stores.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, specializes in data visualization solutions for software developers. It offers a platform that simplifies the integration of analytics capabilities into web and mobile applications. Reflect's services include a user-friendly studio and an API, allowing developers to create and embed visualizations tailored to their customers' needs. The company was acquired by Puppet, Inc. in 2021.
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