EP 18: JESSIE GABRIEL
Jessie Gabriel is the founder of All Places, a champion for women, and a prominent voice on the role of capital ownership and control in achieving gender equity. Raised by a single working mother in Southern California, Jessie's success came with a deep appreciation of how gender norms and unequal access to capital contribute to a systemic lack of opportunities for women-identifying entrepreneurs and executives. Jessie’s personal vision and passionate advocacy are fueled by the desire to create true change–All Places is the culmination of her expertise and ethos, a space for women to formulate businesses of all kinds, receive trusted legal and strategic guidance, and ultimately cultivate long-term financial success.
Jessie started her career in economics, working first at a consulting firm before moving to a major think tank. As a lawyer, she has worked at some of the country’s most prestigious firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and BakerHostetler, where she was the youngest woman to lead her own team and launched the firm’s Investment Funds practice. Her clients have ranged from Fortune 10 companies to trailblazing pre-seed startups, and have included numerous women-founded private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds. In 2020, she stepped down as an equity partner to launch All Places.
Jessie serves as an advisor to First Women’s Bank, Mercer regarding their Leap mandate, and Turning Rock Partners (a women-led private credit fund managing over $1b in assets), and sits on the Boards of the New America Alliance, an organization that advocates for the Latinx asset management community, and New Destiny Housing, which builds permanent, beautiful, affordable housing for families that have survived domestic violence.
Jessie received her B.A. in economics from Dartmouth College and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, won the Campbell Moot Court Competition, and served as Executive Editor of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.
All Places is a mission-driven law firm working to close the gender equity gap in capital markets. They work with funds and startups led by female, non-binary, and mission-aligned male founders with a particular focus on protecting their ownership as their companies grow. All Places wants its clients to understand the short-term and long-term implications of the choices they make today. They are daily inspired by RBG’s words: “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” Their attorneys are Big Law-trained but provide practical advice in language you can understand with a transparent fee structure that includes flat fees.
All Places provides full-service corporate legal work: from launching a company or fund to running lead and non-lead fund investments, planning and documenting fundraising, negotiating major contracts, growing your team, and protecting your intellectual property. Their clients include women-led funds like Turning Rock Partners, Supply Change Capital, SoGal Ventures, Beyond Capital, MPowered Capital, Recast Capital, L2 Point, and Growth Warrior Capital, and female-led startups like Omsom, Humankind, Rosy, Alloy Health, Sèchey, Dotdat, WNDYR, west~bourne, Táche, Spicewell, and Volition Beauty.
All Places also hosts small group get-togethers for female founders and fund managers to share experiences and networks, as well as intimate opportunities to directly engage with key experts and influencers. Recent events have included: a private dinner with the Deputy Secretary of Commerce regarding female entrepreneurship; direct Q&A with the U.S. Treasury about small business funding; peer networking for first-time fund managers; a discussion with the head of venture at the U.S.’s largest VC fund administrator about fund budgeting; and storytelling to investors with the former speechwriter to the CEOs of BlackRock and Lloyds’s of London. All Places also issues a weekly newsletter that founders have described as “the newsletter I most look forward to receiving every week.”
