Patent ID: 8374954

Claim:
A computer-implemented data processing system comprising: a network interface that connects the data processing system to computers associated with a plurality of users by way of a communication network, the plurality of users including companies, institutional investors, individual investors, and exchanges, the network interface receiving information from the computers including information regarding capitalization and financial performance of companies, the capitalization including equity securities and debt securities issued by the companies and traded in private capital markets, the investors having ownership interests in the equity securities and the debt securities; and a data storage system that receives and stores the information regarding capitalization and financial performance of companies; and a processor and computer-readable media, the computer readable media having instructions stored therein that when executed by the processor cause the processor to implement stored capital management logic, the stored capital management logic being accessible to the plurality of users by way of the communication network, the stored capital management logic being configured to facilitate pre-financing and post-financing transactions and other interactions between the companies, the institutional investors, the individual investors, and the exchanges throughout one or more rounds of financing of the companies, the stored capital management logic being configured to track the capitalization and financial performance of the companies.