Liz Wessel
Liz Wessel is a Partner at First Round Capital, a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco. She is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of WayUp, an early-career recruitment platform that grew to over seven million users and was acquired in 2021 after raising over $40 million in venture funding. Prior to joining First Round in 2023, she served as a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator and has been an active angel investor since 2016, backing companies including Ramp, Scale AI, and Ro.
“First Round Capital's Liz Wessel will discuss how investors evaluate founders before traction or product market fit exists. The session explores her founder perspective, early stage decision making.”
Source→“She co-founded WayUp at 23, raised $40M, and spent 8 years as CEO before exiting. Now, as a Partner at First Round, she sits on the other side of the table, deciding which founders get the check.”
“She co-founded WayUp at 23, raised $40M, and spent 8 years as CEO before exiting.”
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