Liquid 2 Ventures

Excited to share that we've raised a $20M Series A led by Define Ventures, with Vanderbilt Health, Intermountain Ventures, and our amazing early investors. I’m a pharmacist-founder who lived the faxes, portals, and middlemen that slow down care. I've built and run pharmacies, getting into the weeds of operations and at the same time built leading consumer solutions. Now at Foundation Health, we're building the operational backbone that empowers pharmacists, providers, and patients alike. Automating manual work to free up the pharmacy teams to practise at the top of their license and focus on patient care while at the same time empowering patients. This is the future of pharmacy - not phone calls, faxes and admin work. We’re scaling with health systems and pharma partners - and hiring builders who want to help fix the hardest parts of healthcare. Come join us! https://lnkd.in/eT7XmMWC

Today we’re excited to share that Flai (YC S25) has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Antigravity Capital, RedBlue Capital, Pioneer Fund and many other terrific funds and angel investors. This funding fuels our mission to bring customers to automotive dealerships by handling all communication before they walk in the door. After visiting hundreds of dealerships and speaking with service advisors, BDC managers, GSMs, and GMs across the US, the pattern was clear: missed calls, full inboxes, long hold times, and customers who don’t try again. In fact, 70% of people who hit voicemail call a competitor within 30 minutes, translating directly into lost revenue for the dealership. Flai has already handled tens of thousands of customer calls and is live in dozens of dealerships. Some dealers have told us Flai has paid for itself on a single Sunday and we’ve generated millions in revenue in the last two months. For our biggest location, we’re generating about 150k in revenue each month. With this funding, we’re pushing the product to new levels to build the AI communications platform for auto dealerships where every customer interaction outside of the store is taken care of.

🎉 Pair Team's first peer-reviewed study has been published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine - “A Novel Intervention for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Complex Needs”! The population we engaged are among the most medically and socially complex: 🏡 52% experiencing homelessness 🧠 50% living with severe mental illness 🏥 46% with high baseline hospital/ED utilization. After one year, the results were clear: ✅ 52% reduction in emergency department visits ✅ 26% reduction in inpatient admissions ✅ 21% increase in outpatient visits ✅ 4-point improvement in PHQ-9 depression scores Three key ingredients set the Pair Model apart from prior approaches: 1️⃣ We partner directly with community-based organizations, such as shelters and food pantries, and pay them directly for the services they provide to patients 2️⃣ Our nurses, behavioral health specialists, and nurse practitioners bridge the gap between patient needs and primary care availability in the community 3️⃣ Arc, our AI-enabled software platform, coordinates care across the medical and social care ecosystem and drives quality as the model scales This is a huge milestone for Pair Team and shows what is possible when medical, behavioral, and social care come together with community partnerships - creating whole care, for whole lives. Grateful to my co-authors Luke Mueller, Nate Favini, MD, MS, Jonathan Palisoc, Connie Kim, Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, FAAP, and Michael Ong with special thanks to Cassie Choi, Jessie Juusola, PhD and Shefali Kumar for their key collaborations! Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ehq4f_q3

Today, I’m excited to finally announce Paraform’s $20M Series A led by Felicis, alongside A*, BOND, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST Global to build the best platform for hiring top talent. One that makes recruiting truly intelligent, deeply human, and infinitely scalable. As AI takes over routine tasks, human talent shifts to higher-order work - creativity, judgment, strategy - creating a more top-heavy, high-impact workforce. As the nature of work changes, hiring top talent has never mattered more. Yet, recruiting is largely an unsolved problem and incredibly inefficient. In this new era, recruiters will resemble sports agents: strategic partners who can navigate the market, advocate for top talent, and broker career-defining opportunities. While most players in our space are racing to replace recruiters with AI, we’re doubling down on them. Paraform helps recruiters become the highest-leverage partners in hiring by equipping them with the best AI-powered tools. Helping them place exceptional talent faster than ever. As a result of this bet, we helped iconic companies like Palantir Technologies, Cursor, Decagon, Windsurf, and Hightouch make mission-critical hires. We cracked the cold start problem that stalls most marketplaces by providing high delta value to both sides. And with every search, our network compounds in intelligence, improving candidate matching, interview efficiency, and recruiter-role fit. What emerges is a new kind of talent graph that understands people’s true strengths, passions, and intents - providing recruiters with the information needed to deliver near-perfect placements. We’re going after a massive $900B market and this fundraise helps us accelerate our vision. Deeply grateful to partner with some of the best investors and technology leaders in the world: Peter Deng from Felicis who led our Series A (his very first investment and board) Bennett Siegel, Gautam Gupta, and Kevin Hartz from A* who believed in us from the very beginning and doubled down. Rahul Mehta and Andrew Li from DST Global Matthew Mulvey from Liquid 2 Raymond Xu from Bond The best angel syndicate: Shyam Sankar (CTO, Palantir) Bob McGrew (Chief Research Officer, OpenAI) Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins, and Cameron Adams (Co-founders, Canva) Max Mullen (Co-founder, Instacart) Jawed Karim (Co-founder, Youtube) Jimmy Ba (Co-founder, xAI) Claire Hughes Johnson (COO, Stripe) Harley Finkelstein (President, Shopify) Sundeep Jain (CPO, Uber) Mark Pincus (Founder, Zynga) Special shoutout to some of our Paraform recruiters: Louise Ogilvy, Bobby Farrell, Will Sanders, John Keenan, and more. To my co-founder Jeffrey Li and the Paraform team, we’re just getting started. Our team has 7x’d in size this past year, and we’re hiring across all teams. Take a look at our careers page or email me (john@paraform.com) if you’re interested. Josipa Majic Predin at Forbes wrote a story on us. Link in comments.