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Utah Business 4.38k Utahns can now invest as little as $1,500 into a promising Utah startup, alongside venture capital investors. And they can do it from their mobile phone with the click of an “invest” button. Beehive Venture Partners, a seed and pre-seed investment fund, launched an online platform for angel syndicate investments in January. The platform lets qualified accredited Utah investors view one to two new startup deals each month with pitch decks, a video, the term sheets, and more schedule visits with the founders, and invest online just by connecting their banks and hitting “invest.” “Literally in five to 10 minutes you can make an investment right next to VC firms,” says Beehive’s fund manager Luke Gunderson, who started the firm with his brother, Jordan. “It’s not the typical model at all and to invest that quickly is highly extraordinary.” ....