Liquid 2 Ventures

@agarfinks Our own announcement flux.ai/p/blog/we-rais…

For most of my life, I assumed technology only moved in one direction: Faster, better, cheaper. Progress felt inevitable. But if you look at the industry that once embodied American ambition, that's not happening. Over the past 50 years, our ability to build large construction projects has not just stagnated, it has eroded. We built faster, better, and cheaper in the 1960s than we do today. What a shame. This is happening at the exact moment we need to build more than ever. More energy to win the AI race, more critical minerals to secure our supply chain, and more advanced manufacturing to reindustrialize. In the last decade, China built an order of magnitude more energy infrastructure than the US. This is not how we win. That is why we’re building Unlimited. We are an AI-native, vertically integrated construction company. We’ve raised a $12M seed round co-led by @a16z (@KTmBoyle) and CIV (Abhijoy Mitra) to redefine how humanity builds. We’re going to automate construction end to end and ensure a future of radical physical abundance. A world where cities rise at the push of a button. Today we are designing and building $100M+ data centers, power plants, and mining facilities. Our AI platform compresses engineering timelines from months to days and delivers optimized designs that simply are not achievable through manual effort. The thing I am most proud of is the team we are building. A small, hyper talented group of multidisciplinary builders who work with intensity, care about craft, and genuinely give a shit. If you want to tackle problems that reshape the physical world and define the new playbook for how civilization builds in the decades ahead, reach out. We are hiring across mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, simulation, and software. We started the company earlier this year, raised money, built out the core technology and team, and kicked off our first real projects. And we’ve done it all under the radar until today. Excited to continue building the team that will build the future of our physical world. It's time to build. @unltdindustries

Today @FortuneMagazine ran a piece on @Mercury celebrating: * 3 years of profitability * $650m in annualized revenue * 40% year on year active customer growth * Building a long term + sustainable + trusted service for our customers Thanks @agarfinks for the write up.

while building my first company we got a *very good* acquisition offer early on. one of my investors tried very hard to convince me to take it. i was young, i figured if you get an offer like this early, you’ll see more later. was also just generally high ego + conviction + wasn’t confident about the idea of being an employee. we never got another offer that good. I had tunnel vision on what I wanted to build. truthfully i still have this tunnel vision! but after many stumbles i’ve learned to be a little more confident in it - the weakness & strength of it what’s interesting is out of all of our investors; this same investor who tried (very hard) to convince me to sell the company & was almost certainly right is one of the few who invested in my second company right out of the gate. he was a minority stakeholder but spent many hours on the phone with me walking through my decisions at every turn. he was a former exited founder himself and over many years he saw the mistakes i was making in real time and listened intently - and let me make them. he didn’t get frustrated or lose faith; he gave strong advice but just let me do my thing and learn the hard way. when i didn’t listen to him he didn’t write me off, he just accepted my fallibility and potential for growth. i’ve learned a lot about real leadership, friendship, investment and even fatherhood from @mlmilleratmit. one of the good ones & 10/10 recommend.

we raised a $13m seed round from 120+ of Silicon Valley’s top investors for @mastra, the leading TypeScript agent framework

Today we’re excited to share that @useflai has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by @firstround with participation from @ycombinator @svangel , @Liquid2V, 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.

We’re launching district.xyz today - a next-gen launchpad for builders on @base. What makes us different? A combination of new tech + a community of world-class builders. 🧵