Venture Math
Session 02 / 11  ·  Fall 2026
The numbers that matter most are the ones nobody shares.
This course reveals them.
Using Carta’s proprietary data on 40,000+ startups, we’ll take a data-driven tour through the startup lifecycle—from co-founder equity splits to IPO—exposing the benchmarks founders won’t share and the math investors won’t explain.
Christina Gilbert
Christina
Gilbert
Visiting Group Partner, Y Combinator ·
Co-Founder, OneSchema (YC S21)
Visiting Group Partner for YC's W26 and S26 batches. She co-founded OneSchema, the embeddable CSV importer for SaaS, and raised $10M+ from General Catalyst, Alfred Lin at Sequoia, Elad Gil, and Contrary — landing on the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars list and Forbes 30 Under 30. She invests at seed in Cognition, Decagon, Modal, and Pylon, and was an APM at Google before founding OneSchema.
Lorenzo Barberis Canonico
Hosted by Lorenzo Barberis Canonico,
President of Cassandra Labs
02 Accelerators & SAFEs
What an accelerator actually buys you, and how the SAFE became the default instrument for early-stage capital
01 The SAFE-to-priced-round tipping point
02 What the accelerator deal really costs
03 A SAFE is equity, not free money
04 The pre-seed market itself
Date
Sept 9
Time
4:30 – 6:30pm
Location
Chou Hall N100
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