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Founder63Current founder
74th percentile
Investor278Current investor
99th percentile
Combined
Founding Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures with 33 unicorns and now building District
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Exits & Outcomes · 97th percentile
- Portfolio company GitLab went public (IPO on NASDAQ, 2021).
- Portfolio company Mercury is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- Portfolio company Applied Intuition is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- Portfolio company Anduril is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- Portfolio company Rappi is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator W2011 alum via TalkBin.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of TalkBin, acquired by Google.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)19,003 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Venture Capital.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)TalkBin had co-founders including Qasar Younis and Sunny Dhillon.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)liquid2.vc ranks #732,252 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of District, a membership community for founders backed by a16z and Initialized.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)TalkBin was acquired by Google; no public acquisition price was disclosed.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account identified at github.com/michaelma8.
Investor score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Active GP and Founding Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund founded in 2015.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a recognized seed-stage VC firm with a public deal record.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Approximately 10 years of investing experience, having co-founded Liquid 2 Ventures in 2015.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Liquid 2 Ventures has invested in 382 companies as of May 2026.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor on Crunchbase (InvestorType: Individual/Angel).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Named to Business Insider's top 100 early-stage investors list.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company GitLab went public (IPO on NASDAQ, 2021).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Applied Intuition is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Anduril is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Portfolio company Mercury is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Portfolio company Rappi is a private unicorn (valued at over $1B).
What you likely need
You're a rare operator-investor who has both built and backed category-defining companies, with 33 unicorns in your portfolio and a current founder role at District. The highest-leverage events for you are those that deepen deal flow at the frontier of AI and developer infrastructure, and that help District grow its membership among the most selective founder communities. You'd benefit most from intimate gatherings where you can both source investments and recruit top founders into the District network.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC W2011 alumni dinner to reconnect with fellow early-batch founders and surface warm intros to the next generation of pre-seed AI companies.
- introsA roundtable with other Business Insider Seed 100 investors to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities in AI infrastructure.
- hiringA curated dinner with top YC and a16z-backed founders to recruit high-signal members into the District community.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with operators from Liquid 2 portfolio unicorns (Mercury, Anduril, Applied Intuition) to surface breakout Series A opportunities.
- introsA Harvard Business School alumni happy hour focused on founders building in fintech and developer tools, aligned with Liquid 2's core thesis.
- positioningA positioning workshop with other Forbes 30 Under 30 VC honorees on building a differentiated seed fund brand in the current AI investment landscape.
- tacticalA tactical session on community-led growth strategies for District, with founders who have scaled membership communities backed by top-tier VCs.