The first finance hire used to happen at Series A. It's drifting to Series B. AI is rewriting the early-stage finance playbook, and most founders are still building it the old way.

Albert Gozzi, Co-Founder & CEO at Aleph, has spent the last year inside hundreds of early-stage finance teams figuring out what AI actually changes. Chris Mossa, CEO at Graphite Financial, runs the outsourced finance partner trusted by venture-backed founders from seed through Series B. They compare notes on the shift, in a fireside conversation built for honest takes, not vendor pitches.

Built for founders, CEOs, and early finance leaders at venture-backed startups (Seed to Series B, ~10-150 employees) deciding what their finance function should look like over the next 12 months.

Join in on the discussion to learn:

• Why the first finance hire is drifting from Series A to Series B, and the signals that say it's time anyway
• Which finance jobs AI has genuinely taken over in 2026, and which it has not come close to touching
• What the early-stage finance stack actually looks like now: what's table stakes, what's overkill
• The most expensive mistakes founders are making with finance tooling and headcount today
• How to think about the controller, FP&A, and accounting layers as separate decisions
• What stays in-house, what goes to a partner, and where the line moved
• Two operator views on the same shift: Aleph's from inside finance teams, Graphite's from running them

Plus, much more...