StartEngine

aid: startengine
name: StartEngine
description: StartEngine is a Los Angeles based online private-market investment platform that lets everyday investors buy
  equity in startups and pre-IPO companies, and lets founders raise capital under Regulation Crowdfunding, Regulation A+ and
  Regulation D. The company operates StartEngine Capital, its FINRA-registered funding portal; StartEngine Private, a fund
  vehicle for later-stage pre-IPO companies; a secondary marketplace for trading eligible private shares; and StartEngine
  Secure, an SEC-registered transfer agent and cap-table management service sold to issuers on a published monthly plan. StartEngine
  publishes no public developer API, SDK, webhook catalog or developer portal - its public engineering output is an internal
  design-system npm scope, agent examples, and Ethereum security-token standards work (the ERC-1450 reference implementation).
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://d17th0s7i8wl11.cloudfront.net/SE_Thumbnail_5d5cb9e21b.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/startengine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Investing
- Crowdfunding
- Private Markets
- Capital Markets
- Financial-Services
- Transfer Agent
- Securities
tags_raw:
- Company
- Investing
- Crowdfunding
- Private Markets
- Capital Markets
- Financial Services
- Transfer Agent
- Securities
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/startengine-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.startengine.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.startengine.com/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.startengine.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.startengine.com/
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://www.startengine.com/contact-us
- type: SignUp
  url: https://user.startengine.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://user.startengine.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.startengine.com/secure
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.startengine.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.startengine.com/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/StartEngine
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/startengine_stock/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/startengine-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/startengine-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: StartEngine ships an investor app and the StartEngine Secure cap-table product to end users only; api.startengine.com,
    developer.startengine.com and docs.startengine.com all return NXDOMAIN, and www.startengine.com/robots.txt disallows /api
    for every crawler because the only /api path is the site's own internal backend.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.startengine.com/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.startengine.com/api/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.startengine.com/api-docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://status.startengine.com/
    status: 500
  checked: '2026-08-05'
  note: Every other /.well-known/ and spec path on www.startengine.com answers 202 with an HTML catch-all, and user.startengine.com
    returns an identical SPA shell for all paths; both were disproved with a control probe and recorded in well-known/startengine-well-known.yml.