When the IPO market broke the first time, venture capital leaders called Mona DeFrawi.

In 2008, after taking VC-backed startups public over a decade, building two economic development and tech commercialization offices, and raising CapGen Financial’s $500M debut PE fund, VC leaders asked Mona to help “fix the IPO Crisis.” She did. Mona built InsideVenture, the first Private Market platform as an IPO on-ramp to connect public, PE, and late-stage investor funding into pre-IPO companies, restoring venture liquidity and defining a new category: the Private Markets (acquired; now part of Nasdaq Private Market).

VCs and Wall Street leveraged the Private Markets to fuel the unicorn investing trend, which kept companies private longer, and further concentrated the upside at the top, leading to fewer IPOs and today’s eventual liquidity crisis. Today, only 0.05% of startups seeking capital get funded, and only 1% of those ever reach the public markets. Retail investors have been shut out of startup wealth creation for 25+ years, driving the highest income inequality in the G7.

Across her career Mona has served on 14 startup teams and organizations – executing IPOs for the first four, founding and leading the last four as CEO – and raised billions in capital along the way. From childhood war refugee to Forbes “Most Powerful Women in Technology” and “Top 100 Women in Fintech,” she has spent more than three decades at the intersection of startups, venture capital, and Wall Street.

Radivision is the solution for today’s broken capital markets: an AI-powered social platform that educates, engages, and refers everyday investors into private market and IPO opportunities through our SEC-compliant partners. It’s the critical missing infrastructure – the new IR – built to unlock ~$25T in untapped global retail capital, to fund the worthy innovators today’s capital markets don’t support, reopening the path to IPOs, and restoring wealth access for ordinary Americans.

She conceived private markets. She restored liquidity once, and she’s doing it again. Radivision is opening the new retail private and IPO markets movement – getting more startups funded, reinvigorating Silicon Valley and Wall Street with more startups and IPOs – and helping everyone invest like an angel and make money like a millionaire.