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William Barnes

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · TX · Mar 14, 2014 → Jun 10, 2025

7deals (issuers)

$53.8Mreported sold

251investors

7Form D filings

2014–2025years on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:30 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

William Barnes is listed as an executive officer and director on 7 SEC Form D filings by 7 issuers between Mar 2014 and Jun 2025. Largest by amount reported sold: Karman Ventures Fund 1, LP (Austin, TX — pooled investment fund — 2025; $41.6M reported sold to 150 investors), Karman Ventures Rocket II, LP (Austin, TX — pooled investment fund — 2024; $5.21M reported sold to 4 investors), Karman Ventures Rocket I, LP (Austin, TX — pooled investment fund — 2024; $2.94M reported sold to 17 investors), Moving Capital Rocket III, LP (Austin, TX — pooled investment fund — 2023; $2.01M reported sold to 30 investors), Moving Capital Rocket II, LP (Austin, TX — pooled investment fund — 2023; $1.47M reported sold to 37 investors) and 2 more (all listed below).

What this means A repeat sponsor — 7 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer and director, over about 11 years. Across those companies the filings report $53.8M sold in total.

Listed alongside Karman Ventures GP, LLC (3 shared filings, management entity), Moving Capital Advisors LLC (2 shared filings, management entity), Charles Rand Lightner (1 shared filing), Clifton H Morris, Jr. (1 shared filing), Deron L Balch (1 shared filing) and 2 others.

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

6 of the issuers belong to the sponsor group Moving (6 issuers, $53.8M reported sold, 2023–2025).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Moving has 6 companies on file and $53.8M reported sold in total — the group page shows the whole track record in one place.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA) — 9 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 9 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 William Barnes and found 6 differences, 1 worth asking the sponsor about: 4 Form Ds were filed more than 15 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

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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, 2:30 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: AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA (crawled Oct 23, 2026)

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 William Barnes..

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

9 cases: 9 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

William B. Barnes closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Texas · No. 11-60315 · Filed Mar 22, 2011 · Closed Jul 1, 2011

Role of William B. Barnes: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2011-07-01 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗