StartEngine Inc.

Overview

• IndustryFinance Services¹
• HeadquartersBurbank, California¹
• Incorporated inDE³
• Business address4100 West Alameda Avenue, 3Rd Floor, Burbank, Ca 91505³
• Filer categoryNon-accelerated filer, Smaller reporting company, Emerging growth company³
• Legal formCorporation

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StartEngine Crowdsourcing Inc. was incorporated in the State of Delaware on March 19, 2014. On May 8, 2014, the company changed its name to StartEngine Crowdfunding, Inc.⁴ From its latest annual report

Corporate structure

StartEngine Inc. sits at the top of its group. 1 entity, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What StartEngine Inc. reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

Investments

Intangibles and goodwill

Properties, in its own words

We do not own any significant property. We are currently working remotely. We a have a service agreement for our office space at 4100 W Alameda Ave., Suite 300, Burbank, CA 91505. It is a month-to-month agreement.

Our subsidiary, StartEngine Assets LLC, owned a membership interest in a building located at 327 South Madison Way, Glendale, California 91205 in 2024. StartEngine Assets completed sale of this building on March 14, 2025.

Item 2 of the 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026.⁴

Leadership

Who has led StartEngine Inc., and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

• Chief financial officerHunter Strassman Jun 17, 2025 to now¹⁰

Named in SEC Form D filings

People the company listed in its private-offering notices.

• Executive Officer, DirectorHoward Marks named Sep 14, 2026¹⁷

Former names

• STARTENGINE CROWDFUNDING, INC.Dec 29, 2015 to May 20, 2026³

Timeline

1. Jun 17, 20268-K Bylaws or fiscal year changed¹⁸
2. Mar 23, 20268-K Entered a material agreement; Completed an acquisition or sale; Regulation FD disclosure¹⁹
3. May 6, 20258-K Executive or director change²⁰
4. Jun 14, 20248-K Executive or director change²¹
5. May 10, 20248-K Bylaws or fiscal year changed²²
6. Jun 2, 20238-K Change of auditor²³
7. May 9, 20238-K Entered a material agreement²⁴
8. Nov 28, 20228-K Entered a material agreement²⁵
9. Oct 27, 20228-K Entered a material agreement²⁶
10. Aug 12, 20228-K Regulation FD disclosure²⁷
11. Aug 9, 20228-K Earlier financial statements no longer reliable²⁸

Filings

347 filings to the SEC since October 2021: 6 annual reports, 15 quarterly reports, 11 major events, 220 insider forms, 12 large holders, 1 private raises, 82 other. The latest 20:

1. Sep 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
2. Sep 14, 2026D EDGAR
3. Aug 10, 202610-Q EDGAR
4. Jul 20, 2026QUALIF EDGAR
5. Jul 20, 2026253G2 EDGAR
6. Jul 15, 20261-A/A EDGAR
7. Jun 24, 20261-A EDGAR
8. Jun 17, 20268-K EDGAR
9. May 20, 202610-Q EDGAR
10. May 15, 2026NT 10-Q EDGAR
11. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
12. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
13. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
14. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
15. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
16. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
17. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
18. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
19. Apr 29, 20264 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
20. Mar 31, 202610-K EDGAR

Every filing from the last five years, summarized. The full record is on SEC EDGAR.

Insider trades

176 open-market trades by officers, directors and large owners since October 2021: 0 buys and 176 sales. Grants, option exercises and gifts are left out.

From Forms 4 filed with the SEC.

Major holders

Investors who own more than 5% of the shares must tell the SEC: a 13D if they may seek to influence the company, a 13G if they hold passively.

• Aubrey ChernickSCHEDULE 13G/A, 3 filings Feb 10, 2023 to Feb 11, 2025²⁹
• Ronald David MillerSCHEDULE 13G/A, 3 filings Feb 10, 2023 to Feb 10, 2025³⁰
• Howard Edward MarksSCHEDULE 13G/A, 3 filings Feb 10, 2023 to Feb 7, 2025³¹
• Lee MillerSCHEDULE 13G/A, 3 filings Feb 10, 2023 to Feb 7, 2025³²

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Private raises

Private offerings the company reported to the SEC on Form D. The amount is what the latest filing says was sold so far, charted in the year of the first sale. Covers filings since Oct 1, 2021.

1. Mar 17, 2026Raised $7.7 million in a private offering of equity¹⁷ Form D: $14 million offered in all Form D

SEC filer profile

How StartEngine Inc. is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

• Name on EDGARStartEngine Inc.¹
• CIK0001661779
• Employer ID (EIN)46-5371570⁴
• Filer statusNon-accelerated filer an emerging growth company; a smaller reporting company; not a shell company⁴
• Incorporated inDelaware⁴
• Fiscal year endsDecember 31¹
• Industry code (SIC)6199 Finance Services¹
• SEC reviewing officeOffice of Finance, Division of Corporation Finance¹
• Business address4100 West Alameda Avenue, 3Rd Floor, Burbank, CA 91505¹
• Phone800-317-2200¹
• Shares outstanding758,251,544 Common Stock shares; 9,642,080 Series T Preferred Stock shares; 204,772,940 Series Seed Preferred Stock shares; 185,440,880 Series A Preferred Stock shares as of Mar 31, 2026⁴
• Public float$877.7M as of Dec 31, 2025⁴
• AuditorHaynie, Salt Lake City, Utah PCAOB ID 457; no auditor attestation of internal control over financial reporting⁴
• On EDGAR sinceDec 29, 2015¹
• Filings434 in all: 4 (209), 253G2 (35), UPLOAD (23), CORRESP (22), 1-A/A (18), 10-Q (13), 3 (10), 8-K (9)¹
  All 41 form types

  QUALIF (9), 1-A (8), 1-K (5), 1-SA (4), 1-U (4), 10-K (4), C (4), C-AR (4), C/A (4), SC 13G (4), SC 13G/A (4), SCHEDULE 13G/A (4), 10-12G/A (3), C-U (3), D (3), DEF 14C (3), DEFA14C (3), 1-K/A (2), 10-K/A (2), 10-Q/A (2), 8-K/A (2), C-AR/A (2), S-8 (2), 1-A POS (1), 1-A-W (1), 1-A-W/A (1), 10-12G (1), 3/A (1), C-TR (1), DOS (1), NT 10-K (1), NT 10-Q (1), PRE 14C (1)

• Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Mar 31, 2026
  Quarterly report (10-Q) Aug 10, 2026
  Latest 8-K (8-K) Jun 17, 2026

Securities registered for trading

From the cover page of the 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026 (Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act).⁴

Risk factors and legal proceedings

The risks StartEngine Inc. names in Item 1A of its 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026: 25 risks under these headings, as written.⁴

• We are engaged in an industry that continues to develop and rapidly change, which requires our company to be flexible in executing its business plans. We have not yet generated yearly profits, and may not do so in the near future.
• We operate in a regulatory environment that is evolving and uncertain.
• We operate in a highly regulated industry.
• We were approved as a broker-dealer in 2019, launched our alternative trading system in 2020, became a “carrying” broker-dealer in 2021, became an exempt reporting adviser in 2024, and are still in the process of adapting our business model and pricing structure.
• We may be liable for misstatements made by issuers.
• We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. Any failure to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could impair the reliability of our financial statements, which in turn could harm our business, impair investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and our access to the capital markets and cause the price of our common stock to decline and subject us to regulatory penalties.
• Our compliance is focused on U.S. laws and we have not analyzed foreign laws regarding the participation of non-U.S. residents.
• StartEngine’s product offerings are relatively new in an industry that is still quickly evolving.
• We have an evolving business model.
• As we grow our business, we may not be able to manage our growth successfully.
• A majority of our gross profits and correspondingly our net income is attributable to StartEngine Private.
• We depend on key personnel and face challenges recruiting needed personnel.

Legal proceedings

From time to time we may be involved in various disputes and litigation matters that arise in the ordinary course of business. Except as described below, the Company is not currently involved in any material litigation or threatened litigation. The Company was recently involved in an arbitration suit with an issuer whose offering was being conducted on the Company platform, StartEngine Capital. In 2021, the Company terminated the issuer’s offering and refunded investors for the amount previously raised prior to the termination. The issuer brought a claim against the Company for improperly relying on a recent SEC enforcement against a different crowdfunding portal in determining their course of action against the issuer. The Company and the issuer entered arbitration proceedings in July 2023. The matter was resolved on January 19, 2024 and payment of the settlement was resolved in March 2024. The settlement amount totaled $2.1 million of which the Company paid $200,000 with the remaining $1,900,000 covered by the Company’s liability insurance policy. The matter is now considered closed. The Company recuperated the $200,000 payment in February 2025.

The opening of Item 3, Legal Proceedings.⁴