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"Small scale investors wanting a piece of burgeoning private companies such as Zynga, Groupon or Facebook before they go public may have a new friend in MicroAngel Capital Partners.\nThe alternative fund management company is launching Thursday to offer first-time venture fund investors and those looking to invest smaller chunks of cash a chance to invest anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 in some of the most coveted internet startups.\nMicroAngel Capital Partners will pool investments in individual funds for hot pre-IPO technology, social media, green tech and mobile companies. Regional funds will also be available. Once it raises roughly $1 million per fund, MicroAngel Capital Partners will buy up stock via sellers on secondary stock markets and dole out shares to fund participants.\n\"MicroAngel Capital Partners will give more investors opportunities to invest in higher-profile startups such as Groupon, LinkedIn or Yelp by investing smaller amounts of capital,\" says CEO and fund manager Bill Clark.\nBefore you get too excited, MicroAngel Capital Partners does vet each would-be investor, which means you'll need more than a bit of extra cash in your pocket to gain access to its soon-to-be-sought-after funds. Investors will need to be accredited with a net worth of $1 million or more, or go through a screening process.\nLest you think that the venture fund manager is simply going after the most buzzed-about names, Clark assures us his team performs due diligence before starting a fund by looking at market research reports and polling its investors on the startups they want to invest in.\nMicroAngel Capital Partners is Clark's second initiative in the alternative investing space. He first founded MicroVentures in 2010 as a broker dealer to match startups looking to raise capital with a group of investors who each have $1,000 to $10,000 to invest.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Johnny Vulkan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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