Method and system for creating an equity exchange fund for public and private entities

A system for creating an equity exchange fund comprising:

• means for receiving an application to participate in the fund from at least one investor, the at least one investor having a position in at least one commercial entity;
• means for evaluating the at least one commercial entity based on at least one predetermined criteria;
• means for performing a valuation of the position in the at least one commercial entity;
• and
• means for determining a number of shares of the fund to be exchanged for the position in the at least one entity.

The system as in claim 17, wherein the at least one predetermined criteria includes a time until the at least one commercial entity can achieve an IPO;

• a balance sheet;
• a P and L statement;
• quality of business plan;
• quality of management;
• competition within business sector;
• and quality of business sector.

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for creating an equity exchange fund, the method steps comprising:

• receiving an application to participate in the fund from at least one investor, the at least one investor having a position in at least one commercial entity;
• evaluating the at least one commercial entity based on at least one predetermined criteria;
• if the at least one commercial entity is acceptable, performing a valuation of the position in the at least one commercial entity;
• and
• determining a number of shares of the fund to be exchanged for the position in the at least one entity.