---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-045014"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001661779"
company_name: "STARTENGINE CROWDFUNDING, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T12:32:16.657225+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# StartEngine appoints Hunter Strassman as CFO and Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Hunter Strassman appointed CFO and PAO effective May 5, 2025.
- Strassman served as VP of Finance since October 2021; prior Director of Finance.
- He is a licensed CPA (NY) and holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 24, 27, and 65.
- Previous roles include Director of Finance at AlphaFlow and Senior Controller at Karbone.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-045014
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001661779
- company_name: STARTENGINE CROWDFUNDING, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1661779/000110465925045014/0001104659-25-045014-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1661779/000110465925045014/tm2514199d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-045014
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-045014.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-045014.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hunter Strassman was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at STARTENGINE CROWDFUNDING, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: appointed Hunter Strassman to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, effective as of May 5, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1661779/000110465925045014/0001104659-25-045014-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.