# Andy Liu

> Andy Liu is a seed investor at Unlock Venture Partners backing Software and E-Commerce. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unlock Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unlock-venture-partners)
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-liu/0/452/62a

Andy Liu is a seed investor at Unlock Venture Partners in Greater Seattle Area focused on Software and E-Commerce. Andy Liu is co-founder of BuddyTV, along with David Niu. Prior to BuddyTV, Andy served as President and CEO of NetConversions from 1999-2004 prior to its sale to aQuantive and served as VP and GM of its Site Optimization unit from 2004-2005. He's also a founder of a non-profit focused on technology in developing countries and isvery passionate about entrepreneurship. He brings deep experience in building companies, site optimization, SEO, community building, and product development. In 2003, he was named to Puget Sound Business Journal's 40 under 40 and holds an MBA from Wharton.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| B2B | 2 | 10% |
| Mobile | 2 | 10% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 43% |
| Series A | 5 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Picnic | Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the firstautomated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Enzzo | Enzzo is an AI-powered platform that aims to expedite and streamline the creation of innovative hardware products, from requirement generation to risk mitigation and seamless collaboration. | $3M | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Augie Studio | Aug X Labs is an AI-based “prompt to video” technology and publishing startup focused on helping creators bring relevant and compelling visuals into their video stories. Our primary focus is to build tools for creators that help democratize video creation by transforming anyone’s words or thoughts into dynamic, engaging, and relevant video contentin mere minutes. We are a company intent on making technology easier for creators, allowing them to focus on having fun while engaging with their communities. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Concreit | Concreit is an app that enables users to build investments in real estate with the help of experts. Concreit manages real estate assets and properties, allowing customers to live a life free of the stress of direct ownership. With Concreit, users can invest in a diverse real estate portfolio, set financial goals, and learn new real estate skills. | $6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Plunk | Plunk is an analytics platform that helps homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors value and invest in residential real estate. It tracks an individual home’s price in real time and represents a new level of both comprehensiveness and transparency. Plunk’s real-time solutions are accessed by consumers, real estate professionals, and theinvestment community via a suite of data and software products, across both web and mobile platforms.It was founded by Brian Lent and David Bluhm in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. | $6.5M | Seed | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Chatitive | Chatitive is a two-way SMS marketing platform that uses context to deliver personalized and conversational mobile messages direct to consumers. | $650K |  | Jul 19, 2019 |  |
| Chatitive | Chatitive is a two-way SMS marketing platform that uses context to deliver personalized and conversational mobile messages direct to consumers. | $650K |  | Jul 19, 2019 |  |
| Plunk | Plunk is an analytics platform that helps homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors value and invest in residential real estate. It tracks an individual home’s price in real time and represents a new level of both comprehensiveness and transparency. Plunk’s real-time solutions are accessed by consumers, real estate professionals, and theinvestment community via a suite of data and software products, across both web and mobile platforms.It was founded by Brian Lent and David Bluhm in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. |  | Seed | Jul 16, 2019 |  |
| Dolly | Dolly is a customer service company offering delivery and services through mobile apps at an affordable price. Dolly's services are used in apartment moves, unloading and moving the furniture, storage moves, and junk removal. All Dollys are backed by their Damage Protection program and commercial liability insurance. | $7.5M | Series B | May 02, 2019 |  |
| Amperity | Amperity’s mission is to help people use data to serve the customer. They are revolutionizing the way companies connect, identify, and understand their customers by leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver a truly comprehensive and actionable Customer 360. This view improves marketing performance, fuels accurate customer insights, and enablesworld-class customer experiences. With Amperity, technical teams are freed from endless integration and data management, and business teams have direct access to the comprehensive data they need to build long-term customer loyalty and drive growth. Amperity serves many of the world’s most loved brands, including Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, The Gap Inc, Moët Hennessy USA, Wynn Resorts, Kendra Scott, Lucky Brand, Planet Fitness, Seattle Sounders, Stanley, and many more. | $9M | Series A | Feb 05, 2016 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flying Fish Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flying-fish-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cercano Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cercano-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unlock Venture Partners

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Unlock Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage tech entrepreneurs. The firm was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

5 contacts available at Unlock Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Liu | Co-founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-liu |
| Sanjay Reddy | Co-founding partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-reddy |
| Jason Seleno | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-seleno |
| Matthew McRae | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-mcrae |
| Raazi Imam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raazi-imam |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Liu invest in?

Andy Liu invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andy Liu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Liu closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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