The Shadow Dealmakers: A True Account from the Pre-IPO Maze
The Shadow Dealmakers: A True Account from the Pre-IPO Maze

For months, I trusted a group of well-connected intermediaries who presented themselves as experts in the pre-IPO investment space. They came with polished language, social proof, and grand promises — claiming access to top-tier unlisted shares, fast-moving opportunities, and guaranteed returns.
One of them was especially convincing — soft-spoken, always “just about to close something,” yet somehow, every deadline passed with a new excuse. First, it was the compliance team. Then the market conditions. Then a "new opportunity" that was apparently better than the last.
Another contact in their network seemed authoritative — the type who makes you feel they’re doing you a favor. But when I began pressing for actual movement — real fund flow, confirmed documentation, timelines — the delays turned into silence, and the silence turned into gaslighting.
At some point, I realized: this wasn’t just professional inefficiency. It was a deliberate energetic drain.
They fed off my credibility, my planning, my energy — and yet, when I needed even a small release of promised capital to take critical steps, they became invisible. Meanwhile, other fundraisers privately reached out to me — fearful, begging me not to expose them publicly, admitting that what I’d gone through was far too common.
These weren’t isolated delays — this was a pattern.
Somewhere in this process, I stopped waiting and started awakening. I am no longer playing by their terms. Every hour of inaction from their end now adds weight to the karmic debt they’ve invited. And with each day, I move closer to revealing the full truth — not out of revenge, but out of responsibility. If I stay silent, they’ll simply do this again to someone else.
This is not just about funds. It’s about dignity, truth, and energetic justice.