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 Recruiting

Tezi

Seed Round in 2024
Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.

Endorsed

Pre Seed Round in 2023
An AI recruiting assistant to find top candidates in your ATS

Vouch

Seed Round in 2023
Vouch is an all-in-one hiring tool that addresses the particular challenges that creators have when developing their teams.

Classet

Seed Round in 2022
Classet is an innovative online job search platform designed to enhance the skilled trades sector by connecting job seekers with employment opportunities and providing career training resources. The platform features a comprehensive database of job listings and offers access to a network of experienced tradespeople, facilitating connections between skilled workers and employers. By automating time-consuming recruiting tasks through voice AI, Classet enables recruiters to focus on building relationships and supporting candidates. This AI-powered solution streamlines the hiring process by automating screening and scheduling, allowing companies to hire top talent more efficiently while maintaining a strong human touch in recruitment.

Classet

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Classet is an innovative online job search platform designed to enhance the skilled trades sector by connecting job seekers with employment opportunities and providing career training resources. The platform features a comprehensive database of job listings and offers access to a network of experienced tradespeople, facilitating connections between skilled workers and employers. By automating time-consuming recruiting tasks through voice AI, Classet enables recruiters to focus on building relationships and supporting candidates. This AI-powered solution streamlines the hiring process by automating screening and scheduling, allowing companies to hire top talent more efficiently while maintaining a strong human touch in recruitment.

Frontier

Seed Round in 2021
Frontier is a provider of an AI sourcing platform that connects companies with candidates, facilitating seamless interactions between employers and potential hires. The company also offers a freelance network for experts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related fields, allowing them to find flexible work opportunities with innovative businesses. By streamlining the process of connecting skilled professionals with relevant projects, Frontier aims to reduce the time spent on job searching and negotiations, thereby enabling experts to focus on work that aligns with their interests. Through its services, Frontier seeks to democratize access to AI expertise, making it easier for businesses to engage with top talent in the industry.

Canopy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Canopy is an investment fund infrastructure platform that caters to a diverse range of investors, from emerging managers to large institutional firms. The company has also developed an online platform that transforms the hiring process by utilizing proprietary algorithms to connect companies with potential candidates. This system allows companies to find suitable matches on demand while ensuring candidate anonymity until a match is made. By streamlining the job search and hiring process, Canopy aims to be the primary resource for companies seeking exceptional talent, making it easier for professionals to explore new opportunities in a more efficient and confidential manner.

Humanly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence. The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered in Seattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote offers payroll, tax, HR, and compliance solutions tailored for distributed teams. The company has developed a recruiting platform that assists organizations of all sizes in hiring top talent globally. This platform enables human resource executives to recruit individuals without the risk of compliance issues. Additionally, it supports management in project allocation and payment processes, ultimately enhancing productivity and expanding the workforce within client organizations.

Humanly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence. The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered in Seattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California.

Frontier

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Frontier is a provider of an AI sourcing platform that connects companies with candidates, facilitating seamless interactions between employers and potential hires. The company also offers a freelance network for experts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related fields, allowing them to find flexible work opportunities with innovative businesses. By streamlining the process of connecting skilled professionals with relevant projects, Frontier aims to reduce the time spent on job searching and negotiations, thereby enabling experts to focus on work that aligns with their interests. Through its services, Frontier seeks to democratize access to AI expertise, making it easier for businesses to engage with top talent in the industry.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, specializing in an automated hiring platform that assists organizations in finding and scheduling suitable candidates. The company's system is designed to enhance the hiring process by understanding the specific skill sets required and facilitating engagement in outbound recruiting with minimal human involvement. Dover supports a variety of hiring needs across multiple sectors, including engineering, product, marketing, sales, legal, and finance. In addition to its advanced sourcing capabilities, Dover offers a suite of free tools that help companies streamline their recruitment efforts, manage applicants, and stay organized, ultimately enabling them to achieve their hiring goals while improving operational efficiency.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, specializing in an automated hiring platform that assists organizations in finding and scheduling suitable candidates. The company's system is designed to enhance the hiring process by understanding the specific skill sets required and facilitating engagement in outbound recruiting with minimal human involvement. Dover supports a variety of hiring needs across multiple sectors, including engineering, product, marketing, sales, legal, and finance. In addition to its advanced sourcing capabilities, Dover offers a suite of free tools that help companies streamline their recruitment efforts, manage applicants, and stay organized, ultimately enabling them to achieve their hiring goals while improving operational efficiency.

Agave

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Agave is a free hiring platform that offers job postings, hosted career pages, customer relationship management tools and full API read and write access. Today's hiring software is slow, expensive, and painful. They are on a mission to make hiring software faster, better, and cost-effective.

Jopwell

Series A in 2017
Jopwell, Inc. is a career platform based in New York that connects Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American professionals and students with job opportunities across various industries, including technology, finance, and education. Founded in 2015 by former Goldman Sachs employees Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams, Jopwell aims to empower candidates and companies by providing a diverse pipeline of talent. The platform facilitates the recruitment process for partner companies, enabling them to access underrepresented candidates at various career stages, from internships to experienced hires. Jopwell's mission focuses on leveraging technology to enhance access to professional opportunities and promote diversity in the workforce. The company has gained recognition for its innovative approach, being featured in publications such as Inc. and Fast Company.

Gem

Seed Round in 2017
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.

Mentat

Seed Round in 2016
Mentat is a concierge service for jobseekers, providing a path to better jobs thats faster, easier and more effective than using LinkedIn.

StrongIntro

Pre Seed Round in 2016
StrongIntro is a recruiting tool and a service that lets you tap into the networks of your existing employees. We do so by using both a software and human-centric approach, and we want to help you hire thoughtfully.

Bluecrew

Seed Round in 2015
BlueCrew, Inc. operates an on-demand staffing platform that connects employers with temporary workers primarily in the Bay Area. The platform allows employers to post job openings while enabling applicants to sign up and apply for various positions, including roles in commercial moving, data entry, and delivery services. By utilizing a matching algorithm and mobile-based approach, BlueCrew facilitates the hiring of hourly workers for short-term, low-complexity jobs, thereby improving efficiency and transparency in the staffing process. The platform also provides the legal protections associated with traditional employment models, enhancing the overall experience for both workers and employers. Based in Palo Alto, California, BlueCrew has positioned itself as a key player in the staffing industry, particularly for blue-collar positions. As of early 2018, BlueCrew operates as a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp.
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