This site is one of the only online private equity communities, intended to give high net worth investors the opportunity to explore and commit to private placements and other pre-initial public offering equity deals. Once you make that cut, the site is quite simple to use. EarlyBirdCapital publishes information about early-stage companies that are seeking to raise seed capital in exchange for equity stakes.
Users can then subscribe to any offering they please.
EarlyBirdCapital is still an upstart, and is typically getting on one deal every four to six weeks. However, the deals are good ones, since they gave all been oversubscribed. The site also has information about EarlyBirdCapital's venture capital fund, Dalewood, which posted a 260 percent gain in 1999, and 47.8 percent in the first half of 2000.