Abstract: A collateralized acquisition pool investment vehicle includes an issuer, an acquisition pool that includes an amount of funds and/or one or more assets, a plurality of ownership interests in the acquisition pool, a management team and one or more investors and a process for acquiring an asset including capitalizing an issuer with an amount of funds, engaging a management team to identify one or more acquisition targets, and acquiring the asset identified by the management team by consensus of the ownership interests of the issuer.