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A Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder Got 25 Months in Prison. Fake Revenue Wasn’t the Only Alleged Fraud
Gökçe Güven misled more than a dozen investors about Kalder’s growth and revenue, then was ordered to pay $6.7 million in restitution.
- A New York court sentenced the 27-year-old founder of Kalder to 25 months in prison last week after she pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud.
- The founder misled venture capital investors to raise $10 million in April 2024, falsely claiming in a pitch deck that Kalder had growing revenues and agreements with companies like Godiva and IATA.
- Besides deceiving investors, she used forgeries to secure a Turkish O-1A visa for the US; she previously worked at OpenSea and Robinhood after attending the University of California, Berkeley.
- The court ordered the entrepreneur to pay $6.7 million in restitution to victims alongside her prison sentence, a conviction following her 2024 appearance on the Forbes list.
- Jamie McDonald, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, described the case as a brazen fraud, mirroring scandals involving Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos and Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX.
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