Boca Raton, FL: Investment banking has emerged from the boardroom and into cyberspace to reach a global audience of direct investors and technology companies. VistaWEB IPO, the world's first online investment banking firm, enables companies and investors to conduct business without time, language or geographical limitations. With this innovative application of ecommerce, this financial sector now has unlimited reach, round-the-clock visibility, and impact on virtually every continent.

This online investment banking firm distinguishes itself in other ways. Unlike traditional investment banking firms, VistaWEB's Syndication Directors invest in purchase warrants up to $1 million with each company's transaction and approved SEC public offering. VistaWEB has streamlined the often cumbersome investment banking process with an online presence that brings companies and investors together in a virtual financial world 24 hours a day in 10 languages. This new use of the Internet allows technology companies to quickly and efficiently reach direct global investors with financial, product and marketing information.

Based in Boca Raton, Fla., VistaWEB specializes in medium-sized and emerging technology companies. It showcases them via a beta portfolio featuring animated "road shows" that present the companies' technology and products. It presents global stock offerings to VistaWEB IPO Membership with online, electronic syndication for direct global investors. The company can conduct IPO and Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) transactions online. For PPM offerings, however, investors must be initially accredited with a net worth of $1 million.

In addition to marketing young technology companies, VistaWEB offers programs for more established corporations promoting products and services both online and off-line.

VistaWEB is the creation of Donald Rinaldi, a veteran of Wall Street and corporate board rooms. "VistaWEB is the most efficient way for technology companies and direct investors to conduct business," Rinaldi said. "The impact, reach and visibility is unmatched." Rinaldi started building VistaWEB more than a decade ago, long before "ecommerce" and the "Internet" were part of the business world. Today, VistaWEB is recognized as one of the top 100 venture capital sites by FinanceWise, the leading financial search engine. As chairman and chief executive officer, Rinaldi, a former corporate director of Allied Chemical, now AlliedSignal Corporation, has assembled some of the nation's leading business, marketing, securities, and legal experts to assist in this endeavor.

Potential investors can stroll through a "virtual IPO Spotlight" and view "road shows". They can participate in real-time discussions with emerging companies in "virtual Wall Street conference rooms." Technology companies and investors can visit chat rooms and get advice on new opportunities from experts in marketing, legal affairs, securities, technology review, and funding strategies. In the "IPO Spotlight" directory, visitors can access press releases on new companies and other developments, road show notices, private placement memorandum, a prospectus, and SEC regulatory procedures.

Incorporated in April of this year, VistaWEB is now conducting its own private placement for $2.1 million to position the company for its own IPO later this year. This offering is presented on the web site and serves as a model for how the process works. "One advantage of web-based investment banking is that there are no stockbrokers and, therefore, no commissions, underwriters or finders fees," Rinaldi said. "But, the most important feature is the immediacy of the stock transaction process. What once took months now happens in minutes and 24 hours a day ."

Companies seeking capital can present products and business plans to a vast, direct audience of global investors.. Likewise, global investors can learn about new and innovative technologies as soon as they're available by viewing VistaWEB's growing portfolio of strategic and investment opportunities. This virtual environment serves as a source of capital during the incubation, research and development stages. VistaWEB then facilitates the IPO process by assisting in commercial development, structuring timely strategic alliances, and marketing companies through various online strategies.

"Many technology companies are started by developers who have little knowledge of the IPO process and the legal, marketing, and capital equity funding issues," Rinaldi added. "Some have an outstanding product, but can't get it to market. Others may have a product with great potential, but without the background to refine it so it can ultimately succeed.

"We assist with all of these elements through our board of Syndication Directors and then market the company to direct investors and consumers worldwide. The major appeal, however, is the global nature of our process and the efficiencies and power of conducting these activities online." Various funding strategies include Initial Public Offerings, Secondary Offerings, and Private Placements. Rinaldi anticipates that major corporations will also outsource VistaWEB's expertise in developing online and off-line marketing strategies.

Other VistaWEB services include:

• Exposure on the web site for commercial and market development "beta technologies" and then when they have matured to full IPO status
• Registration process
• Selection of market makers
• Allocation of shares

Criteria include:

• Business plan
• Patents approved and pending
• Financial objectives, value points and liquidity events to grow enterprise with revenue and margin projections
• Financial statements, two years
• Use of proceeds
• Low debt-to-equity ratio
• Ability to impact market to substantially grow revenue