Venture Math Speaker Series 02

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​​In Session 02 of Venture Math, we're thrilled to welcome Christina Gilbert - Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator and Co-founder of OneSchema.

​Christina has seen both sides of the table:
​- As a Founder: She co-founded OneSchema (YC S21), raising $10M+ from General Catalyst, Alfred Lin (Sequoia), Elad Gil, and Contrary, landed on the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars list, and was named Forbes 30 Under 30.
- ​As an Investor & Partner: She serves as a Visiting Group Partner for YC's W26 and S26 batches and actively invests at the seed stage in breakout companies like Cognition, Decagon, Modal, and Pylon.

​Joined by host Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (President of Cassandra Labs), Christina will take us inside Accelerators & SAFEs to unpack the real mechanics of seed fundraising:
​💡 What We’ll Cover:
- ​The SAFE Trade-off: How SAFEs revolutionized fundraising speed—and the hidden dilution costs founders overlook.
- ​The YC Advantage: Why YC achieves a 5x unicorn conversion rate compared to other accelerators.
​- Founder Demographics: The rising median age of YC founders and what it reveals about who gets funded today.
​- Dilution Math: Real-world breakdowns of what the standard accelerator deal actually costs your cap table long-term.

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