Venture Math
Session 09 / 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.
Danielle Strachman
Danielle
Strachman
Co-Founder & General Partner, 1517 Fund ·
Founding Director, Thiel Fellowship
Co-founder and general partner of 1517, which backs dropouts and sci-fi scientists at the earliest stage. As founding director of the Thiel Fellowship she designed and ran the program that funded Vitalik Buterin and Dylan Field as teenagers. Before that she founded and directed Innovations Academy, a K-8 school in San Diego built around student-led projects.
Lorenzo Barberis Canonico
Hosted by Lorenzo Barberis Canonico,
President of Cassandra Labs
09 Pre-Seed: Formation & Founder Equity
Before there’s a product, there’s a cap table — the decisions that shape everything that follows
01 How co-founders split it
02 Solo founder or team
03 When co-founders come apart
04 Who founders are: age and origin
Date
Oct 28
Time
4:30 – 6:30pm
Location
Chou Hall N100
Register & full schedule
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