INVESTPRIVATE.COM ANNOUNCES CHARTER MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR ACCESS TO NEW PRIVATE PLACEMENT DEALS

September 25, 2000 - New York, NY - Scott Mathis, founder and Chairman of InvestPrivate.com, today announced that the online investment bank has begun accepting applications for charter membership. InvestPrivate.com is a full service online investment bank that delivers dynamic private placement opportunities to a broad community of accredited investors. Charter members of InvestPrivate.com will have exclusive access to the initial private placements available on InvestPrivate.com including companies in the entertainment and technology sectors. Charter members will be able to join InvestPrivate.com without paying a membership fee and will be automatically entered in a lottery to receive $10,000 per deal in shares in each of the first five private placement deals offered on InvestPrivate.com.
InvestPrivate.com focuses on deals that will provide members with the opportunity to invest in emerging growth pre-IPO companies that take an innovative
approach to their respective industries. InvestPrivate.com will also provide members with stock and option trading, access to mutual funds, portfolio tracking and investment recommendations.
An Untapped Market
The private placement sector of the investment community is growing rapidly – nearly 30% since 1998. Most often private companies have been funded through traditional means – owners equity, family, friends, commercial bank loans and trade credit. InvestPrivate.com provides another option – additional financing through private
placements. Through investment levels as low as $10,000, InvestPrivate.com offers accredited individual investors exciting new ways to diversify their portfolios and the ability to use todays energetic upstarts to help maximize their returns.
Proven Leadership
InvestPrivate.com has an experienced Board of Directors that will not only act as investors, but will play a key advisory role in developing the future successes and direction of the company. In addition to their in-house team of experienced industry professionals, InvestPrivate.com has created strategic alliances that provide maximum benefits for member investors and companies.

Current alliances include, Fiserv, providing InvestPrivate.coms back end trading platform, account management and clearing systems, LivePerson.com, enabling communication via real-time text-based chat forums and Sharp Communications Inc., furnishing strategic marketing, advertising and public relations.

About InvestPrivate.com:
InvestPrivate.com is the new, innovative full service Internet investment banking and brokerage firm that offers dynamic private placement opportunities to accredited individual investors. InvestPrivate.com provides the connection to turn todays opportunities into tomorrows market leaders by pairing the right investor with the right opportunity. InvestPrivate.com is headquartered at 500 Fifth Avenue, 54th Floor, New York, NY 10110. The Companys telephone and fax numbers are 212.739.7700 and 212.655.0140 respectively. Its website is www.investprivate.com.

Contact:
For additional information contact Douglas Hesney at Sharp Communications 212.983.1515 or email dh@sharpthink.com.

Important Notes:
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. This press release may contain certain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or future business performance. Any such statements that refer to the Company's estimated or anticipated future results or other non-historical facts are forward-looking and reflect the Company's current perspective of existing trends and information. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or quantified and, consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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