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8,484,110 titled “Electronic
Enterprise Monitoring Apparatus”; U.S. Patent 8,793,170 titled “Electronic Enterprise Capital Marketplace Apparatus and Method”; and U.S. Patent 8,793,171 titled “Electronic System for Analyzing the Risk of an Enterprise.” EquityNet’s five patents describe a range of inventions within the private business domain for crowdfunding marketplaces, enterprise analysis, enterprise risk quantification, and enterprise monitoring.
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patent application in 2005 before the word “crowdfunding” was first used. EquityNet’s patents include U.S. Patent 7,698,188 titled “Electronic
Enterprise Capital Marketplace and Monitoring Apparatus and Method”; U.S. Patent 7,908,194 titled “Electronic Enterprise Analysis Apparatus”; U.S. Patent
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Magazine named EquityNet as one of "10 Companies Poised to Profit from the JOBS Act." In August 2012, Worth
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America raise more than $ 500 million in equity, debt, and royalty-based capital. The company is not a registered
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As of 2020, EquityNet is majority owned by C9 Capital, a private equity firm based in Cedar Rapids, IA, and was primarily based out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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