Patent ID: 8600874

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an application for a student venture scholarship; authenticating a user by an authentication engine; facilitating investment in a student venture by a system; approving, by way of an automatic programmed computer, the funding of a qualified student venture scholarship application; receiving an electronic communication indicative of approval from the user to invest in a student venture having an associated data structure in a filtered applications datastore; storing a capital commitment value from the user in a data structure associated with the student venture upon receipt of approval from the user, wherein the capital commitment value serves as an investment in the student venture; transferring the capital commitment to the student venture; allocating equity or an instrument convertible to equity to the funding entity by the student venture in exchange for the receipt of approval from the user to invest in the student venture; disbursing the capital commitment to a student representative of the student venture and disbursing the equity or the instrument convertible to equity to the funding entity.