What signals matter at the Seed Stage for investors?

How do seed investors decide who's worth backing, when there's not a fully proven commercial model yet?

On August 10, we're sitting down with Liz Wessel, a seed-stage investor and Partner at First Round Capital, to unpack exactly that.

We'll discuss:

• What signals actually matter to a seed investor when there isn't much traction to point to yet

• The traits that separate fundable founders from everyone else at this stage

• What building and exiting her own company taught her about reading momentum early

• Why some of the best seed bets look unconventional on paper

Liz co-founded and ran WayUp, an early-career recruitment platform that raised over $40M before merging with Yello. She then worked closely with founders on go-to-market as a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator, before moving into seed investing full-time at First Round Capital — and was named to the Forbes Midas Brink List in 2025.

If you're building something and want a real look at how seed conviction gets formed on the other side of the table, come join us.

Register here: https://luma.com/metal-re11