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.