Softeq Advisors LLC
Softeq engineers smart, connected products: custom hardware, embedded systems, Edge AI, IoT, computer vision, robotics, and Physical AI from prototype to production.
In the firm's own words, from its website.
5 additional co-investors and affiliates, 107 additional investments, funds and LPs, 4 events, 1 verified contact (1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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Nothing material in the last 180 days.
People to know
View all people- Managing DirectorWhy: Managing directorNo route on file yet
Relationship network
119 connected entities
From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.
Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.
Click any name or line for the rounds and sources behind it. Line weight is rounds together; dashed lines are inferred.
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›How strength and recency are read
Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
How am I connected?
Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Softeq Advisors LLC: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.
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Investing
110 companies on record, 0 new in 12 months
Investments on record
What these amounts mean“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.Acquired, Public, Exited and Active are what the firm’s own portfolio card says, read on the date shown when you hover the chip; they are not deal dates. A company with no chip is one whose card states no outcome: DFX does not assume it is active.| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Avatar Creation Tool | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| Access Control System Prototype | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| Acoustic-Vehicle-Alerting-System-for-Electric-Cars | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
- Sectors
- ai, healthcare, medtech, consumer, climate, energy, hardware, robotics, crypto, cybersecurity, logistics, industrial
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- germany, global, globally, los angeles, texas, usa, worldwide
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture studio
Team
4 current, 0 departed
Decision makers
- Christopher Alan Howard · Managing DirectorWhy this person: Managing director; Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Investment team
How the team is orderedPartners who lead rounds first (rounds led, then deals attributed, then seniority), then the rest of the investment team, then investor relations, finance and operations. A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once.- Managing Director
2 departed (kept with end dates)
- Bret Siarkowski · Managing Director · Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 3, 2024 Inference
- Joel Reagan Carter · Chief Compliance Officer · Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 3, 2024 Inference
Contacts
1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.
Funds and LPs
0 vehicles, 0 LPs disclosed
Funds and vehicles
What these amounts meanGAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.Limited partners
Known LPs and allocators
What these amounts and dates areEach commitment is counted once across the pension tape and the allocator graph. A commitment date prints only when the source printed one; otherwise the row carries the report date. A foundation’s 990-PF line is a holding at fair value, never a commitment. Rows without a fund on the venture graph are commitments to this manager.Relationships across DFX
8 co-investors · on 1 other DFX graph
Co-investors
- 2026-10-011 shared deal · one time
- 2026-10-011 shared deal · one time
- 2026-10-011 shared deal · one time
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Across DFX and the capital chainon 1 other DFX graph ShowHide
- The same institution is held on RIA and Wealth, matched by identifier. See which records
Softeq Advisors LLC is the same institution as 1 record in RIA and Wealth.
The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.
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Evidence and history
9 dated events, 40 observations from 3 sources
Timeline
- seen on or beforeSep 13, 2026Softeq Advisors LLC: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> VENTURE_STUDIO (name or self-description says studio or venture builder)Classification changedClassificationInference
- Dec 3, 2024Joel Reagan Carter (Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Softeq Advisors LLC
- Dec 3, 2024Bret Siarkowski (Managing Director) no longer on Schedule A of Softeq Advisors LLC
- May 14, 2024Softeq Advisors LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
- May 14, 2024Softeq Fund I LLC first reported on Form ADV by Softeq Advisors LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $14,526,110
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Dec 3, 2024 · 1 private fundsShowHide
- Headquarters
- Houston, TXadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- softeq.com
- SEC adviser type
- Exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- Venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Dec 3, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets, adviser total
- $14.5Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
Classification history
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried2 on recordShowHide
- Sep 13, 2026Venture studio (confirmed, 95%)Name or self-description says studio or venture builder
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 70%)Venture manager with no reported fund assets yet (scale unknown)
Evidence
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC exemption claimed | Venture capital fund adviser | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2024-05-14 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-12-03 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Contact page url | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Contact page url | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Headquarters | Houston, TX | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Office address | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Self-described type | Venture studio “Venture Studio” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Self-described type | Venture studio “Venture Studio” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Self-described type | Venture studio “Venture Studio” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Portfolio page | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Private funds reported | 1 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $14.5M | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Schedule a diff | sadiff-1 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Stated geography | Germany, global, globally, los angeles, texas, usa, worldwide “geography words on the home page” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated geography | Germany, global, globally, los angeles, texas, usa, worldwide “geography words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated geography | Germany, global, globally, los angeles, texas, usa, worldwide “geography words on the home page” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | AI, healthcare, medtech, consumer, climate, energy, hardware, robotics, crypto, cybersecurity, logistics, industrial “sector words on the home page” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | AI, healthcare, medtech, consumer, climate, energy, hardware, robotics, crypto, cybersecurity, logistics, industrial “sector words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | AI, healthcare, medtech, consumer, climate, energy, hardware, robotics, crypto, cybersecurity, logistics, industrial “sector words on the home page” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated stages | early “stage words on the home page” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated stages | early “stage words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated stages | early “stage words on the home page” | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact | |
| Venture funds reported | 1 | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Dec 3, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Site title | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersVenture studio, confirmed · 2 filing advisers share this firmShowHide
Name or self-description says studio or venture builder
This firm files as 2 advisers on softeq.com: Softeq Ventures. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
- importance
- gav: 0.05 · funds: 0 · people: 0.08 · investments: 0.76 · co investors: 0.37
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: not scored
- emerging manager
- fund count: 0 · reported gav: $14.5M · first adv filing: 2024-05-14 · years since first filing: 2.4
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Fits
- score 28.5confidence 90%Why: sector fit; geography fit; emerging
Scored by DFX match engines from the record's observed portfolio, stage, geography and recent activity. A fit is a reason to look, not a mandate; the blockers say what the model could not confirm. Names and the evidence sentences show with the names on this page.
Record history
- Organization classification changed2026-09-13
- Adviser's first ADV filing2024-05-14source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.
Not yet on record: latest vintage.