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Sameer Malhotra

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · NY · May 29, 2025 → May 29, 2025

1deal (issuers)
$17.5Mreported sold
27investors
1Form D filing
2025year on file

Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:58 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: not yet

The short version

Sameer Malhotra is listed as a director on 1 SEC Form D filing by 1 issuer in May 2025: Aiera, Inc. (New York, NY — other technology — 2025; $17.5M reported sold to 27 investors).

What this means One deal on file with the SEC, filed May 2025. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment — it is a notice, not an approval.

Listed alongside Bryan Healey (1 shared filing), Charles M. Hazard, Jr. (1 shared filing), Diane Schumaker-Krieg (1 shared filing), Gavin Skinner (1 shared filing), Kenneth Sena (1 shared filing) and 6 others.

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

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA) — none found. Not yet searched: SEC enforcement releases.

What this means Nothing turned up where we looked (2 sources). That does not prove there is nothing — it means none was found in those sources on that date.

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, 2:58 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

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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. — not yet searched.

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.

No SEC search has run yet for this person.

3. Bankruptcies

None found in sources searched

What was searched

Sources searched: Federal bankruptcy courts via CourtListener / RECAP archive (federal district courts, federal bankruptcy courts). State courts: not yet searched. PACER: not searched (RECAP only). · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:58 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.

4. Differences between public sources

Not made for individual people — comparisons cover issuers and sponsor groups

5. Money to insiders

None reported on 1 offering — no sales commissions, finder's fees or proceeds to insiders

Per-offering detail
Offering (latest filing)Sales commissionsFinder's feesTo insidersPaid to sell itSource
May 29, 2025 D
Aiera, Inc.
File 021-547553
$0$0$0
OFFICERS TO BE REMUNERATED IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF BUSINESS
None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗

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 1

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

Other Technology

Aiera, Inc.

New York, NY · May 29, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 · D · $17,499,949 sold of $25,000,000 · 8 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Director EDGAR ↗

Raised $17.5M from 27 investors (70% of the $25M target) as of the latest filing. Sameer is listed as director.

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.

Other pages with the same name (1)

Separate person records under the same name, not combined with this page. Each line says whether it shares an issuer with this record.

  • Sameer Malhotra — AZ, 1 issuer, Sep 18, 2012 → Sep 18, 2012 · no shared issuer

People around Sameer 11

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

Person

Charles M. Hazard, Jr.

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 23 other issuers

Charles M. Hazard, Jr. is on 24 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

Person

Marc Harris

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 8 other issuers

Marc Harris is on 9 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

Person

Bryan Healey

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

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Diane Schumaker-Krieg

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Logan Allin

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Kenneth Sena

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

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Valerie Monchi

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Mike Grubert

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Miki Edelman

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Raj Hindocha

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

Person

Gavin Skinner

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Sameer Malhotra. Their page shows their other deals.

The team behind the deals

Same business address

43 other issuers file from the same address

A shared address can mean the same team, a shared office building or a registered agent. It is a lead, not a conclusion.

Registrations and other filings

Adviser registration (Form ADV)

Not yet searched. Sources to be searched: SEC Investment Adviser Information Reports — Form ADV data for SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers (file dated 2026-10-02); SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) firm search — registered and exempt reporting advisers · Search queued. Results are added automatically; check back later.

Other offering types (Regulation A and Regulation Crowdfunding)

None found in sources searched.

Sources 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 · Last checked Oct 23, 2026, 8:41 PM ET.

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