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Michael Murray

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · CA · Aug 20, 2009 → Nov 23, 2016

3deals (issuers)

$16.7Mreported sold

43investors

7Form D filings

2009–2016years on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:17 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Michael Murray is listed as an executive officer and director on 7 SEC Form D filings by 3 issuers between Aug 2009 and Nov 2016: LUCID DESIGN GROUP, INC. (Oakland, CA — other technology — 2009–2014; $15.7M reported sold to 21 investors), Gopher Protocol Inc. (Santa Monica, CA — other technology — 2015–2016; $548K reported sold to 17 investors) and Petametrics Inc. (San Francisco, CA — other technology — 2014; $500K reported sold to 5 investors).

What this means A repeat sponsor — 3 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer and director, over about 7 years. Across those companies the filings report $16.7M sold in total.

Listed alongside John Petersen (4 shared filings), Peter Rogers (4 shared filings), David Smith (3 shared filings), Vladislav Shunturov (3 shared filings), Zarko Draganic (3 shared filings) and 7 others.

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

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA) — 1 SEC release, 13 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 14 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.

We compared 7 public filings for Michael Murray and found 18 differences, 3 worth asking the sponsor about: Amount sold went down between filings; Investor count went down between filings; 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

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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, 2:17 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

1 SEC release

Richard Michalski and Michael Murray Administrative proceeding

SEC · Nov 20, 2023 · Parties as named in the release: Richard Michalski and Michael Murray Read the release ↗

same full name in the release title; 12 people with this name in Form D filings; the person's filing state is not named

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 Michael Murray..

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 are not covered.

3. Bankruptcies

13 cases: 13 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

Michael J Murray and Marie A Murray closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, C.D. California · No. 1:14-bk-11441 · Filed Mar 21, 2014 · Closed Jun 24, 2014

Role of Michael J Murray and Marie A Murray: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2014-06-24 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗