Electronic enterprise capital marketplace apparatus and method

摘要

An automated and interactive system that facilitates efficient capitalization/liquidation and monitoring of private and publicly-traded enterprises through a network-driven marketplace is disclosed. The system may be comprised of a dynamic process for enterprise characterization, a customizable computational engine that utilizes statistical reference information to quantify a multi-factor scoring value for each unique enterprise, a customizable system for investor-users to filter, rank, and screen enterprise prospects, a customizable system for monitoring the performance of enterprises, an integrated internal system for electronic communication between market participants, and an empirical feedback system that provides a dynamic knowledge base of statistical reference information for various computational components of the invention.

主权项

1. A computer system for matching enterprises with investors, comprising:
(a) an enterprise characterization module resident on a server system comprising at least one server and configured to receive from an enterprise-user terminal information concerning an enterprise characterization, wherein said server system and said enterprise-user terminal are connected through a computer network; (b) an investor requirements module resident on said server system and configured to receive from an investor-user terminal information concerning investor requirements, wherein said server system and said investor-user terminal are connected through a computer network; and (c) an analysis module resident on said server system and configured to receive information from said enterprise characterization module and said investor requirements module, and further configured to generate an investor output comprising private enterprises matching the investor requirements information, and generate a multi-factor private enterprise scoring value associated with each private enterprise.