Overview
Connections
News
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$7.7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$7.7M
Venture round · Mar 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
2
Plug and Play, BAM Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 17 Raised a round Venture round $7.7M · SEC Form D Nov 21, 2022 Acquisition A New Equity Crowdfunding Heavyweight? StartEngine Acquires Competitor SeedInvest · benzinga.com 2014 Founded Mar 27, 2013 Partnership StartEngine partners with Accenture · pandodaily.com
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
29
best: 84 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2026 $7.7M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity StartEngine Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Howard MarksExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How StartEngine hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

StartEngine scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

StartEngine is a financial technology company that runs an equity crowdfunding and alternative investing platform, founded by Activision co-founder Howard Marks. It hires private equity, alternative investment and private markets sales staff. The company is headquartered in Burbank, California, United States.

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors2
BAM VenturesVia a fund
101 portfolio companies: Custom Ink, Nowsta, PayEngine and 98 more
Plug and PlayVia a fund
2742 portfolio companies

People

Howard Marks
Executive Officer, Director
Ron Miller
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
41/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
333 days
faster than 4% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Legal
75% ▼
Sales
25% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Burbank United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$7.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $7.7M Details