初创公司Kalder创办人证券欺诈判刑25个月：虚报收入骗走约700万美元、伪造材料办签证
美国司法部纽约南区联邦检察官办公室宣布，位于纽约州 New York County 的 New York 市的科技初创公司 Kalder 创办人兼前首席执行官 Gökçe Güven（27岁）2026年10月30日被判处25个月联邦监禁。Güven 已于2026年5月15日就一项证券欺诈罪认罪，案件由联邦地区法官 Lewis A. Kaplan 判刑。
据法庭文件，Güven 自2024年4月起为 Kalder 开展种子轮融资，向数十名风险投资人招揽投资时提供虚假陈述、误导性说法与伪造文件。她在路演材料中谎称有26个品牌正在使用 Kalder、另有53个品牌在免费试用，而其中一些品牌只是短期大幅折扣的试点、另一些与 Kalder 根本没有任何协议。
她还谎称 Kalder 的经常性收入逐月稳步增长、年经常性收入达到120万美元，并以两套账本掩盖公司真实财务状况：一套由外部会计公司编制的真实账目留作内部使用，另一套虚增数字的账目发给投资人。她另向投资人发送了一份与所谓品牌伙伴之间的伪造合同。靠这些手法，Güven 从十余名投资人手中募得约700万美元。
联邦检察官 Jamie McDonald 表示，Güven 在其初创公司实施了明目张胆的欺诈，向十余名风投投资人承诺不断增长的收入与客户群，而这些全都不实，随后又用同样的谎言与伪造材料骗取移民福利。
检察官办公室指出，土耳其公民 Güven 在学生签证到期后，又以同类虚假陈述与伪造文件申请 O-1A 非凡能力签证，包括多封由她本人冒名数字签名的企业高管推荐信；该签证于2025年秋签发，现已被吊销。除25个月刑期外，法院判令 Güven 没收6,717,997美元，并向受害人支付同额赔偿。本案由联邦调查局（FBI）与美国邮政检查局调查、证券交易委员会（SEC）协助，助理联邦检察官 Allison Nichols 与 Alexandra N. Rothman 起诉。（来源：美国司法部）
Kalder Founder Sentenced to 25 Months for Securities Fraud: Fake Revenue Lured About $7 Million and a Visa
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Gökçe Güven, 27, the founder and former chief executive officer of Kalder Inc., a New York-based technology startup in New York County, New York, was sentenced on October 30, 2026, to 25 months in prison for securities fraud. Güven pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud on May 15, 2026, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
According to court filings, beginning in April 2024 Güven raised Kalder's seed round by soliciting dozens of venture capital investors with false statements, misleading claims and fabricated documents about Kalder's revenue and brand partners. A pitch deck falsely claimed 26 brands were using Kalder and 53 more were on live free trials, when some had only limited, heavily discounted pilot programs and others had no agreement with Kalder at all.
The deck also falsely reported that Kalder's recurring revenue had grown steadily to $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue. Güven concealed the company's true finances by keeping two sets of books, an accurate internal set prepared by its outside accounting firm and a second, inflated set sent to investors, and transmitted a forged contract with a purported brand partner. Through those misrepresentations she raised approximately $7 million from more than a dozen investors.
U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said Güven committed a brazen fraud at her startup, promising investors increasing revenue and a growing customer base, none of which was true, and then deployed the same lies and forgeries to obtain an immigration benefit.
Prosecutors said Güven, a citizen of Turkey, also used false statements and fabricated documents, including reference letters she digitally signed herself in executives' names, to obtain an O-1A extraordinary-ability visa after her student visa expired. The visa, issued in the fall of 2025, has since been revoked. In addition to the prison term, Güven was ordered to pay forfeiture and restitution of $6,717,997 each. The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigated, with assistance from the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Allison Nichols and Alexandra N. Rothman prosecuted. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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