melissa li

Head of Community & HQ Managing Partner, Dorm Room Fund

Melissa Li is Head of Community and HQ Managing Partner at Dorm Room Fund, a venture firm started by NYC-based First Round Capital to back student founders. In her role, Melissa workshops community-building and marketing flywheel strategy with founders, and leads platform initiatives helping founders engage with DRF’s broader Gen Z audience. DRF is evidence that investing in student founders is a huge opportunity — to date, their companies have created over $8 billion in value for consumers and enterprises alike.

Melissa also brings to YMS a background in consumer venture capital with a focus on web3 and the internet economy. She has extensive experience mentoring seed-stage accelerator programs on community-building, and advising new media and Metaverse startups on Gen Z engagement.