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Liz is a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator (“YC”), the leading startup accelerator and investor, where she invests in and helps great founders build great companies. Prior to joining YC, Liz was the Co-Founder and CEO at WayUp, the leading virtual Diversity Recruiting platform that ensures employers achieve their diversity hiring goals. Liz co-founded the business at 23-years-old, and led WayUp as CEO for over seven years, during which time she raised $40M in venture capital for the company and scaled the business significantly; in 2021, she merged WayUp with Yello, a campus recruiting software (at which time, the business was a total of 200 employees). Today, WayUp and Yello are used by nearly 7 million early career professionals to get hired, 71% of whom self-identify as underrepresented minorities, and thousands of employers, including a large portion of the Fortune 500. Liz has been featured in various publications, from Forbes 30 Under 30, to Business Insider’s “18 Coolest Women in Silicon Valley”, to NY Business Journal’s “Influential Women.” Prior to WayUp, Liz was a Product and Brand Marketing Manager at Google, first in Mountain View and then in India. Liz is born and raised in New York City, and currently lives there with her husband Matt and their dog. With her free time, Liz volunteers (most frequently with Step Up Tutoring, where she provides free tutoring and mentorship for three hours every week) and also angel invests in startups, 68% of which were started by underrepresented founders.