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John Donovan

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · NY · Jul 3, 2017 → Apr 11, 2022

2deals (issuers)

$12.4Mreported sold

31investors

5Form D filings

2017–2022years on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:40 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: not yet

The short version

John Donovan is listed as an executive officer, director, and promoter on 5 SEC Form D filings by 2 issuers between Jul 2017 and Apr 2022: LUCATA Corp (New York, NY — computers — 2021; $11.9M reported sold to 27 investors) and OUIBY, INC. (Boulder, CO — other banking and financial services — 2017–2022; $450K reported sold to 4 investors).

What this means 2 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer, director, and promoter, over about 5 years. Across those companies the filings report $12.4M sold in total.

Listed alongside Jackson Killion (4 shared filings), Sean De Clercq (4 shared filings), B. Thomas Golisano (2 shared filings), Bill Tai (2 shared filings), David Bovenzi (2 shared filings) and 6 others.

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

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA) — 1 SEC release, 11 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below. Not yet searched: SEC enforcement releases (search queued; results are added automatically).

What this means 12 records came back. Each one is listed below with a link to the original document and a line saying why it matched. A name match is not proof it is the same person or company — read the why line and the document. Being sued or named in a release is an accusation, not a finding.

What the community is saying

Nothing found on Reddit, BiggerPockets or community forums for high-net-worth investors (searched Oct 24, 2026) — search queued; this line updates when it has run.

Community comments are quoted as written by their authors. Sources searched: BiggerPockets forums (via DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing and BiggerPockets search) and Reddit (search feed + public archive).

Key records

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

1. Lawsuits

None found in sources searched

What was searched

Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts; live RECAP re-check pending. State courts: not yet searched. PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:40 AM ET.

State courts: not yet searched. 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

1 SEC release

John Donovan, CPA Administrative proceeding

SEC · May 18, 2020 · Parties as named in the release: John Donovan, CPA Read the release ↗

same full name in the release title; 6 people with this name in Form D filings; the person's filing state is named in the release

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. — matched Oct 23, 2026, 8:29 PM ET from the sec.gov index; a name search for this subject has not completed yet.

State securities regulators searched: AZ (Corporation Commission Securities Division), CA (DFPI — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), DE (DOJ Investor Protection Unit), TX (State Securities Board), WA (DFI) — last crawled Oct 23, 2026, 9:57 PM ET. Other states: not yet searched.

SEC search queued. Results are added automatically.

3. Bankruptcies

11 cases: 11 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

John Donovan closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. New York · No. 2-15-20565 · Filed May 16, 2015 · Closed Sep 9, 2015

Role of John Donovan: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2015-09-09 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗