Patent ID: 8630931
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for managing investments for a plurality of private enterprises, comprising: establishing a managing enterprise independent of the plurality of private enterprises; providing a network interface for communication between investors and/or the managing enterprise and/or the plurality of private enterprises; collecting, for each of the plurality of enterprises, money and/or equity for the purpose of making investments through the managing enterprise; investing, for each of the enterprises, proceeds from the collecting of money and/or equity for each of the plurality of enterprises by the managing enterprise; receiving a return on the invested proceeds for at least one of the plurality of private enterprises; evaluating, using specifically configured computational machinery, each of the at least one private enterprises which received a return for determining a portion of the return to provide to each of the at least one private enterprises; and providing each of the plurality of private enterprises receiving a return with their corresponding portions of the return; wherein the steps are performed using a computational machine specifically configured to assist in managing the invested proceeds and the communication between the managing enterprise and the plurality of private enterprises; wherein the step of evaluating includes comparing, using specifically configured computational machinery, the return to the at least one private enterprises to the return to at least one other private enterprise receiving a return on the invested proceeds; and wherein the method further comprises a non-transitory computer readable medium having machine instructions encoded therein for implementing the step of providing each of the plurality of enterprises receiving a return with their corresponding portions of the return.