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Jeffrey Gatesmith

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · MN · Jan 27, 2010 → Sep 12, 2014

2deals (issuers)
$2.38Mreported sold
25investors
3Form D filings
2010–2014years on file
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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:21 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Jeffrey Gatesmith is listed as an executive officer on 3 SEC Form D filings by 2 issuers between Jan 2010 and Sep 2014: Top Hat Inc (Shakopee, MN — retailing — 2010; $1.5M reported sold to 13 investors) and Canopy Co. (Minneapolis, MN — other technology — 2014; $875K reported sold to 12 investors).

What this means 2 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer, over about 4 years. Across those companies the filings report $2.38M sold in total.

Listed alongside Gary Lee (2 shared filings), Jordan Greenberg (2 shared filings), Mark Litecky (2 shared filings), Wayne W. Mills (2 shared filings), Barry Lazarus (1 shared filing) and 5 others.

What this means These are the other officers, directors or promoters the companies named on the same forms — the team around Jeffrey. Each name links to their own page.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FINRA, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NASAA, NC, ND, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY) — none found.

What this means Nothing turned up where we looked (3 sources). That does not prove there is nothing — it means none was found in those sources on that date.

We compared 3 public filings for Jeffrey Gatesmith and found 7 differences, 2 worth asking the sponsor about: Paid seller listed without a CRD number: JME Investment Management, LLC; Form D filed 92 days after the first sale; and more below.

What this means These are differences between the sponsor's own SEC filings — both values, dates and sources are listed in Key records, section 4. Most have ordinary explanations; ask the sponsor.

What the community is saying

Community search for Jeffrey Gatesmith has not run yet — it is joining a line of 58,450 names; searches run around the clock at the hosts' allowed rate. Searched so far: 657 names.

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Key records

Five things investors ask first. Items still in human review are counted, not shown.

1. Lawsuits

None found in sources searched — federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), checked Oct 24, 2026

What was searched

Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:21 AM ET.

State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.

2. Regulatory actions

None found in sources searched — SEC enforcement releases (index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) · state securities regulators: 48 regulators (FINRA, NASAA, 37 states) — crawled Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM ET

What was searched

SEC enforcement searched: SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings — respondent names in the sec.gov index titles (30,205 releases, 1995-09-19 to 2026-10-23); release text is read only to confirm a candidate. Names that appear only in the body of a release are not found. — Searched SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings (1995→ / 2007→) (30,205 records as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) — nothing matched Jeffrey Gatesmith..

State securities regulators: Securities regulators searched (64,910 actions): FINRA (38,350 actions, 1995–2026), NASAA (31 actions, 2000–2026; listing starts 1997), AK Division of Banking and Securities (273 actions, 1971–2025), AL Securities Commission (880 actions, 2001–2026), AR Securities Department (1,305 actions, 1998–2026), AZ Corporation Commission Securities Division (411 actions, 2017–2026), CA DFPI (25 actions, 2007–2024; listing starts 2002 — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), CO Division of Securities (731 actions, 2001–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-05-02)), CT Department of Banking Securities Division (940 actions, 2006–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-04-22)), DC DISB Securities Bureau (25 actions, 2012–2026), DE DOJ Investor Protection Unit (257 actions, 1987–2026), FL Office of Financial Regulation (49 actions, 2018–2026), GA Secretary of State Securities Division (65 actions, 2015–2026; listing starts 2012), HI DCCA Securities Enforcement Branch (26 actions, 2012–2026), ID Department of Finance Securities Bureau (663 actions, 1994–2026), IL Secretary of State Securities Department (4,122 actions, 2003–2023), KS Insurance Department Securities Division (58 actions), KY Department of Financial Institutions (342 actions, 2005–2026), LA Office of Financial Institutions Securities Division (13 actions, 2010–2025; listing starts 2008), MA Secretary of the Commonwealth Securities Division (125 actions, 2012–2025; live site blocks automated access — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-02-04), MD Attorney General Securities Division (1,054 actions, 2004–2026), ME Office of Securities (539 actions, 2000–2026), MI LARA Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau (201 actions), MO Secretary of State Securities Division (919 actions, 1998–2026), MS Secretary of State Securities Division (209 actions, 1995–2026), MT Commissioner of Securities and Insurance (597 actions, 2000–2026), NC Secretary of State Securities Division (265 actions, 2004–2024), ND Securities Department (711 actions, 1990–2026; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-01-06), NH Bureau of Securities Regulation (402 actions, 2002–2026), NM Regulation and Licensing Department Securities Division (90 actions, 2010–2025), NV Secretary of State Securities Division (118 actions, 2018–2026), NY Attorney General Investor Protection Bureau (44 actions, 2012–2026), OH Division of Securities (327 actions, 1993–2006), OK Department of Securities (2,531 actions, 1998–2026), OR Division of Financial Regulation (589 actions, 1988–2026), PA Department of Banking and Securities (1,448 actions, 2008–2024; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2024-08-09), RI DBR Securities Division (98 actions, 2005–2025), SC Attorney General Securities Division (540 actions, 2006–2026), SD Division of Insurance – Securities Regulation (106 actions, 2017–2026), TN Department of Commerce and Insurance Securities Division (405 actions, 1992–2026), TX State Securities Board (936 actions, 1999–2026), UT Division of Securities (772 actions, 2000–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2010-05-27)), VT DFR Securities Division (137 actions, 2010–2026), WA DFI (2,039 actions, 2001–2026), WI DFI Division of Securities (1,072 actions, 1998–2026), WV Securities Commission (State Auditor) (64 actions), WY Secretary of State Compliance Division (6 actions, 2016–2024) — last crawled Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM ET. No machine-readable public listing today for IA, IN, MN, NE, NJ, VA (see docs/state-regulators.md).

3. Bankruptcies

None found in sources searched — federal bankruptcy courts (CourtListener / RECAP), checked Oct 24, 2026

What was searched

Sources searched: Federal bankruptcy courts via CourtListener / RECAP archive (federal district courts, federal bankruptcy courts). State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched (RECAP only). · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:21 AM ET.

State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.

4. Differences between public sources

Comparisons cover issuers and sponsor groups — see the issuer pages under Deals

7 differences found between the filings for Jeffrey Gatesmith — 2 worth asking about (compared 3 filings on Oct 24, 2026)

Note · Oct 29, 2020 – Mar 25, 2022

Bankruptcy case: T&M Top Hat, Inc. — filed Oct 29, 2020

United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota docket "T&M Top Hat, Inc." filed Oct 29, 2020, closed Mar 25, 2022. Top Hat Inc (related issuer) is listed as Party ("T&M Top Hat, Inc."). Our match estimate: 60%.

What this means A bankruptcy filing was found. Many are old or personal and have nothing to do with the deal — but ask what it was and when it closed.

Docket · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota ↗Top Hat Inc — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · Feb 12, 2013

Bankruptcy case: Top Hat 430, Inc. — filed Feb 12, 2013

United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota docket "Top Hat 430, Inc." filed Feb 12, 2013 (Open). Top Hat Inc (related issuer) is listed as Party ("Top Hat 430, Inc."). Our match estimate: 60%.

What this means A bankruptcy filing was found. Many are old or personal and have nothing to do with the deal — but ask what it was and when it closed.

Docket · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota ↗Top Hat Inc — PartnerFacts page ↗
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Note · Jun 10, 1992 – Apr 13, 1993

Bankruptcy case: T & M TOP HAT INC — filed Jun 10, 1992

United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota docket "T & M TOP HAT INC" filed Jun 10, 1992, closed Apr 13, 1993. Top Hat Inc (related issuer) is listed as Party ("T & M TOP HAT INC"). Our match estimate: 60%.

What this means A bankruptcy filing was found. Many are old or personal and have nothing to do with the deal — but ask what it was and when it closed.

Docket · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota ↗Top Hat Inc — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · Sep 12, 2014

13% of the money raised went to insiders — Canopy Co.

The Sep 12, 2014 Form D reports $80,000 sold and $10,000 of the proceeds used for payments to officers, directors or promoters (marked as an estimate). Issuer's note: "Estimate of officer salaries".

What this means The filing reports how much of the money raised was paid to insiders. Over 10% is high for most deals. Ask what it paid for.

Form D · Sep 12, 2014 ↗Canopy Co. — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · Sep 12, 2014

Jeffrey Gatesmith appears on 1 deal that stopped filing before reaching its target

Canopy Co. (last filing Sep 12, 2014; $875,000 sold of $3,000,000). Each has no filing in more than two years and reported under half its target sold.

What this means An issuer whose last filing is more than two years old and reported under half its target sold. The raise may have closed early or quietly stopped. Ask what happened to each.

Canopy Co. — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Worth asking · Jan 27, 2010

Paid seller listed without a CRD number: JME Investment Management, LLC — Top Hat Inc

JME Investment Management, LLC is listed as receiving sales compensation on 1 filing (Jan 27, 2010) with no FINRA CRD number given.

What this means People paid to sell securities normally hold a FINRA registration with a CRD number. Without one we cannot look them up on BrokerCheck. Ask who they are and whether they are registered.

Form D · Jan 27, 2010 ↗BrokerCheck search: JME Investment Management, LLC ↗Top Hat Inc — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Worth asking · Oct 27, 2009 – Jan 27, 2010

Form D filed 92 days after the first sale — Top Hat Inc

The filing says the first sale was Oct 27, 2009. The Form D was filed Jan 27, 2010 — 92 days later. The rule: a Form D is generally due within 15 days after the first sale, so this one is 77 days past that.

What this means A late notice is common and carries no penalty by itself. It is worth asking the sponsor why the paperwork lagged.

Form D · Jan 27, 2010 ↗Top Hat Inc — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
What is compared

What is compared: every Form D and D/A we hold for this subject, side by side — filing dates vs. first-sale dates (the 15-day rule), amendment timing on open offerings (the yearly-amendment expectation), amounts sold, investor counts, offering amounts and minimums across amendments, industry and size bands, addresses, how each person's name and role is written, paid sellers' CRD numbers, and (for groups) where the member companies were formed and sit. Everything is as filed by the issuer; the SEC does not check it. Differences are common and usually have ordinary explanations — we show both values, the dates, and the source so you can ask. As of Oct 24, 2026.

5. Money to insiders

1 of 3 offerings reports sales commissions totalling $28,000; 1 reports finder's fees totalling $4,000; 1 reports proceeds to related persons totalling $10,000. (includes amounts the issuer reported as estimates)

Offering (latest filing)Sales commissionsFinder's feesTo insidersPaid to sell itSource
Sep 12, 2014 D
Canopy Co.
File 021-224606
$0$0$10,000 (est.)
Estimate of officer salaries
None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Aug 7, 2014 D
Canopy Co.
File 021-222501
$0$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Jan 27, 2010 D
Top Hat Inc
File 021-77361
$28,000$4,000$0JME Investment Management, LLC no CRD number reportedEDGAR ↗
How this is counted

Counts come from Form D Items 12–15 on the filings in our index (latest filing per offering; one offering = one SEC file number; an amendment updates its offering rather than adding one). "To insiders" = gross proceeds used for payments to executive officers, directors or promoters. "—" = not reported on that filing. Amounts marked (est.) were reported as estimates. "Paid to sell it" = sales compensation recipients named on that filing (Item 12), each linked to FINRA BrokerCheck when a CRD number is reported.

Counted across every filing this person is listed on (latest filing per offering, per issuer).

Deals 2

Every issuer that named Jeffrey Gatesmith on a Form D, newest first. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment.

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Other Technology

Canopy Co.

Minneapolis, MN · Aug 7, 2014 → Sep 12, 2014 · 2 filings
  • Sep 12, 2014 · D · $80,000 sold of $80,000 · 7 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Executive Officer EDGAR ↗
  • Aug 7, 2014 · D · $150,000 sold of $150,000 · 1 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Executive Officer EDGAR ↗

Raised $875K from 12 investors (100% of the $80K target) as of the latest filing. Jeffrey is listed as executive officer on 2 filings for this deal.

Latest filing on EDGAR ↗
Sources

Every row is a Form D or D/A on which the issuer listed this name as a related person. Amount sold and investors are the maximum reported on any filing for this issuer. "Similar" = offerings in the same industry claiming the same exemption, filed in the last 5 years: Other Technology / 506(b) (17,390 filings); ranges are the middle half (25th–75th percentile). Computed by PartnerFacts from SEC EDGAR Form D data as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET. Rows without a range: fewer than 30 comparable filings, or not a Rule 506 offering. No ranking or score.

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Retailing

Top Hat Inc

Shakopee, MN · Jan 27, 2010
  • Jan 27, 2010 · D · $1,500,010 sold of $1,500,010 · 13 investors · min. $25,000 · role: Executive Officer EDGAR ↗

Raised $1.5M from 13 investors (100% of the $1.5M target) as of the latest filing. Jeffrey is listed as executive officer.

Latest filing on EDGAR ↗
Sources

Every row is a Form D or D/A on which the issuer listed this name as a related person. Amount sold and investors are the maximum reported on any filing for this issuer.

People around Jeffrey 10

Officers, directors, promoters and management entities named on the same filings, as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET.

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Person

Wayne W. Mills

Director · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

GL
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Person

Gary Lee

Director · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

ML
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Person

Mark Litecky

Executive Officer, Director · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

JG
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Person

Jordan Greenberg

Director · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

BL
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Person

Barry Lazarus

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 1 other issuer

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

DH
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Person

Dwight E. Helm

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

LT
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Person

Larry Thomas

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

WB
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Person

William Boyajian

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

DP
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Person

David R. Pomje

Executive Officer, Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

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Person

George Mileusnic

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Jeffrey Gatesmith. Their page shows their other deals.

Registrations and other filings

Business registration (state registry / Secretary of State)

Individuals are not matched to business registrations — registries list companies, and a name alone is not enough to tie a person to one. Officers and managers appear by name inside each matched company's record on the issuer pages. Registries searched: AL (Alabama Secretary of State — Business Entity Records (arc-sos.state.al.us), searched by issuer name, data as of Oct 24, 2026); CO (Colorado Secretary of State — Business Entities in Colorado (data.colorado.gov), data as of Oct 23, 2026); CT (Connecticut Secretary of the State — Business Registry (data.ct.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026); FL (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations — quarterly corporate data file (Sunbiz), data as of Oct 7, 2026); KY (Kentucky Secretary of State — Business Entity Search (sosbes.sos.ky.gov), searched by issuer name, data as of Oct 24, 2026); NY (New York Department of State — Corporations and Other Entities (data.ny.gov: All Filings + Active Corporations), data as of Oct 20, 2026); OR (Oregon Secretary of State — Active Businesses, All (data.oregon.gov), data as of Oct 20, 2026); PA (Pennsylvania Department of State — Registered Businesses, Current (data.pa.gov), data as of Oct 6, 2026); TX (Texas Comptroller — Active Franchise Taxpayers incl. Secretary of State file data (data.texas.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026). Registries of other states have not been searched: many publish no bulk file and require a CAPTCHA or bot challenge on their search page, which we do not bypass (Delaware, for example, offers no public bulk file).

Adviser registration (Form ADV)

None of the 2 issuers this person is listed on appears in Form ADV (searched 24,962 advisers as of Oct 2, 2026). A person is never an adviser firm; Form ADV is checked for the issuers and the management companies they are listed with.

Other offering types (Regulation A and Regulation Crowdfunding)

Searched SEC Regulation A Data Sets (Forms 1-A, 1-K, 1-Z; 2015 Q2 → 2026 Q3); SEC Crowdfunding Offerings Data Sets (Form C family; 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q3); EDGAR form index for 2026 Q3 → 2026 Q4 (51,358 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:41 PM ET) — nothing matched this name.

Property records 7 records on 1 issuer

Property records are matched to companies only, never to individuals, so none are matched to Jeffrey Gatesmith by design. Searched property records in Hillsborough County FL (Clerk recorded-document index Oct 14, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026 + FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Miami-Dade County FL (FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Harris County TX (HCAD 2026 ownership roll), Dallas County TX (DCAD 2026 ownership roll), New York City ACRIS documents and PLUTO ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers, Cook County IL sale and ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers (814,874 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET) for the 2 issuers this person is listed on — 1 issuer has property records: Top Hat Inc (7).

Public profiles and social

Websites and social links of the issuers Jeffrey Gatesmith is listed on: none on file. No website or social profile named in Top Hat Inc's SEC filings (Form C, Reg A, Form ADV; checked Oct 24, 2026). Web search for this name: #364,780 of 374,652 in line (1,386 issuers searched so far). One-tap searches: Look further ↓

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Securities regulators

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Business registries

Minnesota Secretary of State business search ↗OpenCorporates ↗

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