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Liz Wessel
Liz Wessel is a Partner at First Round Capital and former co-founder/CEO of WayUp, the early-career recruitment platform she built from a dorm-room idea to a 7-million-user marketplace over seven years. After navigating WayUp's acquisition by Yello in 2021, she spent time as a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator advising 110+ startups, and since 2016 has backed 40+ companies as an angel — including Ramp, ScaleAI, and Ro. She joined First Round in September 2023, bringing a rare combination of founder empathy, GTM rigor, and a reputation as the person early-stage founders call when they need to actually close their first enterprise deal.
Nina Achadjian
Nina Achadjian is a Partner at Index Ventures, one of the world's leading VC firms, where she invests at seed, venture, and growth stages with a focus on AI, robotics, software for hardware, and vertical SaaS. A Harvard-educated former bond trader and Google AdSense leader, she founded HIVE Ventures — the first seed fund for Armenian entrepreneurs — before joining Index. Her portfolio includes Anthropic, ServiceTitan (IPO 2024), Gong, Physical Intelligence, and 20+ other companies. Known for backing category-defining vertical software companies years before they become mainstream, she sits on 24+ company boards.