# StartEngine

> StartEngine is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Software. See 135 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, United States
- Total investments: 135
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startengine
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/startenginela
- Website: http://www.startengine.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StartEngineLA/

StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest and own shares in startups and early-stage companies. It allows companies to offer equity, debt, revenue shares, or royalties through crowdfunding. It primarily caters to media, commercial services, healthcare, software, infrastructure, manufacturing, and cleantech sectors.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for StartEngine. Shizune tracks 9 team members at StartEngine. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/start-engine?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 16 | 12% |
| Software | 14 | 10% |
| Health Care | 13 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 8% |
| Manufacturing | 11 | 8% |

185 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 103 | 76% |
| Seed | 11 | 8% |
| Series A | 5 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 1% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 118 | 87% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allen Jebsen | Sr. VP of Fundraising | 0 | — |
| Howard Marks | Co-Founder and CEO | 5 | — |
| Joe Mathews | Director of Technology | 0 | — |
| Johanna Cronin | Chief Marketing Officer | 0 | — |
| Jonathan B. Miller | Angel Investor | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sliQue Robotics | At sliQue, we are revolutionizing the future of business by creating intelligent, integrated systems that propel your company into tomorrow. Our groundbreaking platform, DataBarn, is the all-in-one app for modern companies designed to centralize and optimize every aspect of your operations.DataBarn seamlessly unites robotics, IoT devices, dataanalytics, automation, and enterprise software into a powerful platform. Imagine having every facet of your business connected and optimized — that's DataBarn's transformative impact.Join us in shaping the future of connected robotics. Empower your business to operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.Experience the future with sliQue. Visit www.databarn.com today! |  | Equity Crowdfunding | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| BuildClub | BuildClub's AI-powered platform eliminates the tedious search across multiple vendors, scanning 15 million items daily to find the best prices and availability. | $1.2M | Series A | Jan 22, 2024 |  |
| TRULEO | TRULEO is an AI platform designed to help businesses improve operations by delivering actionable insights and automating complex decision-making processes. Its algorithms analyze large datasets to identify patterns and opportunities for optimization. By integrating seamlessly with existing systems, TRULEO enables organizations to increaseefficiency, reduce risks, and achieve optimal outcomes. | $885K | Seed | Oct 08, 2023 |  |
| Foresyte | Foresyte is a social travel app that makes it easy to plan with friends and family. The app allows the users to chat and collaborate with their group as they discover the best spots around any city, plan their trip itinerary, and do more of what they love. | $189.6K | Equity Crowdfunding | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Redivivus | Redivivus offers services such as cryogenic shredding to reduce logistics costs and storage risks of li-ion batteries. The company also has a hybrid solution of hydrometallurgical and electrochemical battery recycling to recover battery elements as a metallic alloy. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Foresyte | Foresyte is a social travel app that makes it easy to plan with friends and family. The app allows the users to chat and collaborate with their group as they discover the best spots around any city, plan their trip itinerary, and do more of what they love. | $191.1K |  | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Fanbase | Fanbase is a photo, video, audio chat, live streaming, long-form content app that lets you monetize your posts by gaining subscribers for $3.99 a month for exclusive content you create. Users can also follow you for free like other photo/video sharing apps. You decide what posts are for followers and what posts are for subscribers.Influencers, athletes, musicians, models, foodies, fitness enthusiasts, makeup artists, comedians, brands and You. Everyone has a Fanbase. | $3.4M | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| Paway | Founded by Jason Meltzer the former CEO & founder of Wag. His team is back to build a better pet care community for the next generation. Popular with Gen-Z/Millennial pet parents interested in improving their pet’s overall health and connecting with their neighborhood. Paway includes pet care professionals in the community and offers themsoftware to manage and grow their business. Paway connects pet care professionals with the pet parent community tapping into consumer demand. Paway lowers the cost of pet care services, increases loyalty among pet professionals and collects user data including pet details, contact information and location. | $25K | Grant | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Retina Technologies | Retina Technologies is making vision screening accessible with portable technologies. | $312K | Seed | Jan 15, 2022 |  |
| Honeydrop | Honeydrop is an active lifestyle brand that infuses the incredible natural benefits of honey into health and wellness products. The company's beverages include purifying, nourishing juices blended with raw, local, antibacterial honey. Honeydrop provides 1% of its profits to local beekeepers around the country to help in the fight againstColony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an epidemic that threatens the global bee population. | $368.2K | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 135 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Meyer Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meyer-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wefunder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wefunder) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Ageless Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ENEOS Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eneos-innovation-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hohertz Technologies, LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hohertz-technologies-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does StartEngine invest in?

StartEngine invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Equity Crowdfunding and Seed stage. Most of the 135 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact StartEngine?

Public channels for StartEngine include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at StartEngine?

The team at StartEngine includes Allen Jebsen (Sr. VP of Fundraising), Howard Marks (Co-Founder and CEO) and Joe Mathews (Director of Technology), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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