Mona DeFrawi

⚡ ABOUT: Mona DeFrawi is a serial entrepreneur and capital markets innovator who has been part of 12 startup teams over 3 decades – serving as Founder & CEO of the last four. Along the way, she managed four IPOs, helped build two of the first state tech commercialization organizations, and authored and lobbied legislation that delivered over $20B of new venture capital funding. In 2009, she pioneered the first Private Market platform to restore venture-backed IPOs and liquidity, (acquired twice and spun out as the standalone Nasdaq Private Markets). Now she is building Radivision to support innovation and help everyone participate in the startup ecosystem and its wealth-creation potential. Mona has been recognized as one of Forbes’ “Most Powerful Women in Technology,” and one of the “Top 100 Women in Fintech."

🎁 GIVE: Support through Radivision and SHEconomics

🎉 FUN FACT: I can stand on my head and bend over backward - was an accidental yogi.

🌟 TIPS: Know your strengths, weaknesses, gaps, and future goals and structure your board accordingly.

🌈 DREAM INTRO WISHES: Apollo Global Management, Inc. because of a great alignment with one of their portfolio companies and Yahoo Finance for excellent strategic partnership opportunity.

💪 MOTIVATION: I believe that entrepreneurship is the most powerful way to improve the world and create prosperity, but the startup ecosystem is very dysfunctional due to being opaque, fragmented, complex, and with limited access to 90% or more of the population. Radivision delivers transparency, alignment, support, and access to funding and deal flow. I have twice before connected new sources of funding to the venture ecosystem, and have raised or influenced the placement of $20B+. Radivision now will influence trillions of new capital formation and investment.