Gabriela Isturiz
General Partner at The Fund XX
Gabriela Isturiz
General Partner at The Fund XX
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner: The Fund XX | Investing in Women Founders
2021 - Current
The Fund XX is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women-led startups. Created for women by women, The Fund XX is powered by a community of founders and operators who care deeply about supporting the next generation of female entrepreneurs. The Fund XX's was started by Allison Stoloff, Sylvia Kuyel, Ragini Holloway, and Gaby Isturiz, talented investors, founders, and operators. The Fund XX charters a new frontier for women investors and entrepreneurs by harnessing the power of community around a fund structure for pre-seed and seed-stage investments: 1️⃣ A community of Member LPs invest and bring extensive operational experience as former and current founders and operators. 2️⃣ 90% of our LPs are women, creating a meaningful on-ramp for women investors into the pre-seed and seed ecosystem. 3️⃣ Member LPs bring both capital and resources to women entrepreneurs, with an ability to deploy resources and expertise to women-led companies far faster than fragmented angel groups and syndicates as part of an overarching fund structure. Follow-ons are more easily facilitated by a community already in place. 4️⃣ The Fund XX’s four investment committee members are women. This differs from the current VC landscape, where 12% of decision-makers at VC firms are women. If you are a female founder and CEO building a tech-enabled business and you are looking to raise a pre-seed or seed round (or know of someone we should meet), we want to hear from you! If you are interested in being an investor in The Fund XX, please reach out to us.
Builder-In-Chief
2024
BUILD LEGAL TECH is a free newsletter dedicated to sharing tactical advice, deep dives, frameworks, resources, and stories on building and growing legal tech companies. **Learn from the people who’ve done it before** and connect with like-minded individuals. Whether you have ideas for transforming the legal landscape, are running a startup, or are an investor seeking to stay ahead of market trends, subscribe today and join our community of builders. 👉🏽 Subscribe here: https://www.buildlegaltech.com/subscribe
Director | Legal Tech Accelerator
2024
Build a Venture Scalable Legal Tech Startup The Founder Institute provides a global support network and a proven methodology to get your legal tech startup to traction and funding. Since 2009, FI structured accelerator programs have helped over 6,800 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, FI's mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
Domain Expert | Advisor
2021
Project Olympus is a startup incubator program that encourages and supports entrepreneurship on campus. It helps faculty, students, and staff turn their cutting-edge research and great ideas into startups. We provide startup advice, micro-grants, incubator space, and connections for faculty and students across campus and with the wider regional, national, and global business communities.
Innovation Advisor LegalTech | CyberTech | RegTech
2020
Bryce Catalyst is a unique investment company with a focus on high growth, owner-operated SaaS companies. As an advisor, my focus is on helping to drive value creation for portfolio companies in the areas of CyberTech and RegTech. In addition to my advisory role, I’m honored to lead the Bryce Innovation Labs, an early-stage incubator/accelerator mainly focused on female and minority entrepreneurs to help them build and grow great and impactful companies. Bryce Catalyst is headquartered in Houston with virtual offices in San Diego, Denver, Salt Lake City, Tampa, and Menlo Park.
Bellefield: Founder, President & CEO (Acquired by Roper Technologies NASDAQ:ROP)
2012 - 2019
Bellefield, the market leader in time tracking and compliance, provides the fastest path to revenue by removing barriers to time entry for attorneys and law firms. Through the iTimekeep platform, Bellefield brings better timekeeping to any law firm or professional services firm by increasing attorney engagement, providing real-time compliance with outside counsel guidelines, and enabling firms to manage their time entry policies. In an area that was long disregarded and accepted as a “cost of doing business,” Bellefield’s innovations are bringing about efficiencies that allow firms to achieve the best timecard inventory, leading to fewer rejections, increased compliance, and maximum client satisfaction. Bellefield was founded with one simple (yet powerful) purpose: create better timekeepers. iTimekeep ranks #1 as the most adopted Mobile (and anywhere) Time Entry solution for attorneys for seven consecutive years. Bellefield’s founding members include the former founders of eBillingHub® (now Thomson Reuters™), Gabriela Isturiz and Daniel Garcia. In December 2019, Aderant, a global leader in law firm software and a unit of Roper Technologies, a constituent of the S&P 500 ®, acquired Bellefield. The acquisition is a continuation of Aderant’s commitment to cloud solutions for law firms and the growing market for compliance with Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG). It further broadens Aderant’s solutions and expands its ability to support law firms regardless of their practice management solution. The acquisition came at an opportune time in the legal industry. Law firms have always wanted best-in-class time solutions and with the pressures placed on firms to comply with OCGs, the challenge is daunting. With a SaaS application such as Bellefield’s powered by Microsoft Azure®, a firm can be up and running within hours and achieve an ROI in month one of using the solution.
eBillingHub: Founder, President & CEO (Acquired by Thomson Reuters NYSE:TRI)
2002 - 2011
eBillingHub is the pioneer and leading electronic billing solution designed specifically for law firms to help them prepare, submit, track, and manage electronic invoices to improve and streamline billing processes. Part of the Thomson Reuters family of innovative solutions for professional services firms, integrates with 3E, Enterprise, and ProLaw® to provide a comprehensive and collaborative approach for preparing, submitting, tracking, and managing electronic invoices. eBillingHub delivers solutions to hundreds of clients, including more than 75% of the Am Law 200 firms and law firms of all sizes in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, helping them to reduce errors in the electronic billing process. In 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired eBillingHub, to integrate its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology into the Elite division's 3E, Enterprise, and ProLaw practice management applications. Thomson Reuters Elite also wanted to expand eBillingHub for other industries and purposes, beef up its feature set, and ultimately see it become a de facto standard.
IT Director Applications, Development & Support
1998 - 2007
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. is a nationally recognized law firm providing comprehensive legal expertise in a multitude of service areas and industries. Headquartered and founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1906 as a civil trial law firm, Dickie McCamey has grown to serve industry-leading clients across the country from offices throughout the mid-Atlantic region in Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia, the Southwestern region in California, and the Rockies in Colorado. The firm has expanded beyond its Pittsburgh roots to meet the needs of existing clients.
Director of Project Management (Monetary Policy Bonds)
1993 - 1996
The Central Bank of Venezuela (Spanish: Banco Central de Venezuela, BCV) maintains a fixed exchange rate for the Venezuelan bolívar and since 1996 is the governing agent of the Venezuelan Clearing House System (including an automated clearing house). The Central Bank of Venezuela is autonomous to formulate and exercise policies in its field of competence and it performs its duties and functions in coordination with the general economic policy. The Constitution grants the central bank autonomy to outline and implement the policies.