Let’s take one giant leap for womankind

Some Interesting Stats

In 2022, the percentage of VC money invested in all-women teams dropped from 2.1% to 1.9% of the ~$238.3 billion in VC allocated.

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A woman's chance of raising VC funds increases nine times if she has a male co-founder rather than a female co-founder.

Pitchbook

In the U.S., women-owned funds manage just 0.7% of capital. The number is the same for minority-owned firms. And it’s not due to poor performance.

Knight Foundation

Diverse private equity funds produced higher net MOIC than their non-diverse counterparts in 83.3% of the vintage years between 1998 and 2021.

Oliver Wyman, Rock Creek, IFC

Female-founded companies exit one year earlier and have faster-growing valuations than companies without women on their founding team.

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The blog

Commercial Banking Best Practices

We asked the First Women's Bank team all your burning questions.

04 / 12 / 2023

Look + Listen: Spring 2023

What we do when we're in the middle of all those March 2023 feels.

03 / 22 / 2023

WTF, SVB?

What’s on most of our minds: what happened at SVB and where do we go from here.

03 / 16 / 2023

Ms. Gabriel, It's the White House on Line 2

I can't even be cool about this one. It was major.

02 / 17 / 2023

Hey there, SSBCI. What's your deal, anyway?

The basics of the program and how to apply are at your fingertips. I mean, it's ten billion dollars . . .

01 / 11 / 2023

What I Learned in 2022

In the spirit of holiday sharing and commiseration, here are a few things (big and small) I’m taking away from 2022. 

12 / 22 / 2022

All Places + Treasury: All Things SSBCI

What you need to know about the $10b being allocated to small businesses across the U.S.

12 / 19 / 2022

All Places 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

Your resource for cool, beautiful gifts that happen to be made by a bunch of totally rad women.

11 / 22 / 2022

Launch Party Redux

It was a glorious and overwhelming evening and, in short, all the things. 

11 / 16 / 2022

All Places Turns 2!

What I’m most proud of from our first two years of life.

10 / 12 / 2022

A Full Circle Moment (Part Deux)

What happens when a senior White House official and a powerhouse group of women sit down to talk about capital equity? Pow.

08 / 10 / 2022

A Full Circle Moment

Everything I've gone through in the past two years, all in a moment. And last night was it.

 

07 / 21 / 2022

All Places Summer Reading List!

A few new items for that beach bag in case you want to add to the stack of books you've been collecting since last summer.

07 / 13 / 2022

Welcome to 1868!

For those ready to confront this new reality, let's look at the legal arguments used to overturn Roe and what’s next.

06 / 28 / 2022

How to Fundraise in the Current Climate

We spoke with two investors about how they are evaluating deals right now.

06 / 22 / 2022

What’s up (or not) with startup fundraising?

The fundraising environment is a fickle beast.  Here's what our funders and founders are saying about the market right now.

05 / 24 / 2022

Guest Post: Azora Zoe Paknad, Founder of Goldune

Making sustainability a sexy adventure in the great indoors.

05 / 10 / 2022

Being a Boss

The most meaningful thing I've learned since starting this company came in the form of a shiny little card.

04 / 19 / 2022

Look + Listen: Spring 2022

What the AP community is reading, listening to, and watching to get ourselves through the day.

04 / 13 / 2022

Getting Ghosted?

Wondering why investors aren’t getting back to you? We have a few ideas.

 

03 / 22 / 2022

Guest Post: Shayna Harris, Co-Founder of Supply Change Capital

“When there are nine.” If that phrase gives you chills, you're not the only one. 

03 / 08 / 2022

New Adventures in Startup Financing

Innovation is actually coming to startup fundraising and we are so here for it.

02 / 08 / 2022

Fundraising Rules of the Road: Advertising

A must-read for anyone who is in the process of, or anticipating, fundraising.

01 / 20 / 2022

Three Days at TEDWomen

What do you get when you cross 750 amazing women, 40 groundbreaking speeches, and an old Hollywood-style Palm Springs resort? 

12 / 14 / 2021

All Places 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

Our favorite products from kicka$$ women-owned companies just in time for Black Friday.

11 / 23 / 2021

30 Founders in 30 Days

What we learned about major founder pain points and the easiest solutions. 

11 / 16 / 2021

Lessons from our first year

One year in and a million tiny little lessons about how to be better at all of this.

10 / 19 / 2021

CEO's First Annual Report (2021Q3)

One full year in business. We almost can't believe. But here it is, our first 365 days, by the numbers.

10 / 12 / 2021

Doing Less: A Love Story

My five favorite ways to get more out of doing less ~or~ how to manage your time better without being a jerk.

09 / 21 / 2021

Guest Post: Belinda Lau, Founder of Elims

What drove her to try to solve the problem of providing superior oral care without filling the oceans and our mouths with chemicals?

08 / 24 / 2021

How many lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A few of our favorite bad lawyer stories, care of the All Places community. 

08 / 17 / 2021

Look + Listen: Summer 2021

The playlist that is shaking off the cobwebs, along with our favorite books and streaming for the end of summer.

08 / 10 / 2021

The Secret to Hiring (and Keeping) Top Talent

Hiring is hard for everyone, but there are some strategies we’ve picked up from many of you that make it a bit less hard. 

07 / 20 / 2021

2021 Fund Formation Trends

When we culled our notes from these first six months, three new things jumped out at us.

07 / 16 / 2021

Interview with Latinas in Business

How adversity prompted the creation of All Places and our top piece of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

05 / 28 / 2021

What I Learned in Business Class

What do you get when you cross an epic serial entrepreneur, a lawyer, and 1,000 founders? We found out.

05 / 17 / 2021

The One Thing Most Companies Get Wrong on Diversity + Inclusion

Following our event last week on creating diverse and vibrant teams, it struck me that this one thing is the real game-changer.

05 / 03 / 2021

What All Co-Founders Need to Know

If you don't already have a solid co-founder agreement in place, here is the agenda for your next meeting.

04 / 19 / 2021

Interview with Kayo

Why we started All Places, what guides us as we move forward, and the greatest compliment we've ever received.

04 / 16 / 2021

CEO's Report (2021Q1)

It feels like we just started and, at the same time, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Here is the second quarter of our All Places life in a nutshell.

04 / 05 / 2021

Our Brilliant Advisors Speak!

A few of the best bits of guidance I've received from our extraordinary community of advisors while working to get All Places up and running.

03 / 22 / 2021

It’s a Pipeline Problem, and Other Lies

The bad news: if you think you have a pipeline problem, it’s probably your own fault. The good news: there is something you can do about it. 

03 / 08 / 2021

It’s a (Fundraising) Walk Off

The pros and cons of two different approaches to fundraising, whether you are looking for LPs for your fund or seeking investors for your seed round.

02 / 22 / 2021

5 Things We Hate About Pitch Decks

Most decks just aren’t very good. Welcome to our top five things not to do, pitch deck edition. 

02 / 08 / 2021

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Before you storm into a Zoom ready to tell off your boss, read what our founders have to say about when they chose to make the leap.

01 / 25 / 2021

CEO’S REPORT (2020Q4)

What have we learned? Who are our clients? How do we spend our days? What are we planning for 2021?

01 / 04 / 2021

Holiday Survival Guide

This is what we’re reading, listening to, gifting, and thinking about to help us get through (and, dare we say, enjoy) the waning days of 2020.

12 / 14 / 2020

Lemonade

How can we use these final thirty-one days of 2020 to get us in pole position for 2021? Here are a few ideas we’ve gleaned from our founders. 

11 / 30 / 2020

Ready or Not

Is your business in shape to take advantage of available capital? Four things you could be doing right now to get capital-ready.

11 / 16 / 2020

Interview with AlphaWeek

We had a great chat with Greg Winterton about the brilliance and resilience of female fund managers.

11 / 16 / 2020

The Day After Tomorrow

Three reminders of how desperately your vote is needed, and what to do when the election's over.

11 / 02 / 2020

By Any Other Name

Since launching All Places, a number of you have asked how we came up with our name. Here is our story and what we learned along the way.

10 / 19 / 2020

Required Reading

It's important for all of us to remind ourselves, over and over again, that women means all women.

10 / 04 / 2020

Turn It Up

What we're listening to on these crisp Fall mornings that's getting us focused, energized, and occasionally dancing around like fools.

10 / 04 / 2020

RBG

Now it's time for each of us to step up.
Let's get to work.

09 / 28 / 2020

Woman's Work

As we celebrate Labor Day 2020, women still earn only a fraction of what they deserve.

09 / 14 / 2020

Resignation Announcement

Why I left the Big Law world to start a firm created by women, for women.

08 / 15 / 2020

Women and Wealth

Speaking with Kay Koplovitz (Springboard) and Alli McCartney (UBS) on FOX Business Mornings with Maria about women and money.

07 / 28 / 2020

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