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Brother Brands Inc.

Retail & Consumer · Westwood, NJ

Schmidt Brothers Cutlery combines premium quality with everyday affordability — delivering exceptional kitchen tools to home cooks across America. With $83.5M in lifetime revenue, 29.6% CAGR over four years, and no institutional capital ever raised, this is the first time the public can own a piece of what we’ve built.

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This company has an open fundraising round.

$71K raised37 investors68 days left
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Post-money valuation ⓘ
$16.5M
As of Sep 2026 · from Reg CF Offering (2026) · pre-money + amount raised, not a traded price
Total raised
$71,368
Across 1 round since 2026
Latest share price
$1.47
Reg CF · Common Stock · Sep 2026 offering price

Financials

FY2024–FY2025 · from SEC filings · hover any figure for its source
$15.9M
$564K
2024
$13.5M
−$229K
2025
RevenueNet income — beside revenue when positive, below the line when a loss
Metric
FY2024 reviewed
FY2025 reviewed
Income statement
Revenue
$15,917,178
$13,457,559
Cost of goods sold
$10,486,543
$8,579,085
Gross margin
34%
36%
Net income
$563,782
-$229,264
Taxes paid
$0
$0
Balance sheet
Cash
$26,903
$441,712
Accounts receivable
$2,207,823
$3,002,218
Total assets
$5,275,450
$7,320,392
Short-term debt
$7,085,795
$9,389,107
Long-term debt
$1,077,757
$1,048,650
Total liabilities
$8,163,552
$10,437,757
Other
Headcount
—
9

Figures as reported by the issuer in the filing shown on hover. Each year’s pill shows the assurance level of its filed statements — audited, reviewed (CPA review, less than an audit), or unaudited, as the filing’s own report or certification states it. A dashed pill marked * is inferred instead: the SEC minimum for an offering that size, which the issuer may have exceeded. No pill means we couldn’t tell. Headcount is the filing’s point-in-time count, not a year-end average. Manually corrected figures are marked “Corrected”.

Valuation over rounds

Pre-money — the valuation set before each round’s money came in
$16.5M
pre-money
Reg CF · Common · Sep 2026

Blue bars are the pre-money valuation the company stated for a priced round.

Cap table

Principal holders% as the filing states it, Sep 14, 2026

  • Jordan Schmidt5,000,000 Common Stock44.6%of
  • Tared Schmidt5,000,000 Common Stock44.6%of

Sold to the crowd

From the company's SEC filings: share counts per class, each class's voting and conversion terms, and the holders of 20% or more that Form C requires (officers and 10%+ holders on Form 1-A). Filings name only large holders, so most owners — including crowd investors — are not listed, and a holder's percentage may be of its own class rather than of the whole company. Prices and crowd share counts are in today's share terms — adjusted for splits and conversions since they were sold. Hover a figure for its filing.

Fundraising history

Raised $71.4K / $1.2MInvestors 37Post-money $16.5M

Team

4 people
Jared Ryan Schmidt
Co-Founder, President, Board Chair & CEO

Jared Schmidt is the operational force behind Schmidt Brothers Cutlery. With 20+ years in logistics, sales, and global sourcing, he leads end-to-end operations from manufacturing partnerships to retail distribution, driving consistent margin expansion and category growth. Jared has built the supply chain and logistics infrastructure that put Schmidt Brothers in 10,000 retail doors without institutional equity financing.

Jordan Michael Schmidt
Co-Founder, Vice-President, Chief Product Officer

Jordan Schmidt is the creative and strategic force behind the Schmidt Brothers brand. He built Schmidt Brothers into a premium housewares brand across retail stores nationwide while growing a fast-scaling DTC channel. Jordan leads brand creative, product vision, and go-to-market strategy across all channels, and holds patents covering certain Schmidt Brothers product designs.

Salvatore Angelo Tirabassi
Fractional CFO

Salvatore Tirabassi is the Founder and Managing Director of CFO Pro+Analytics, a leading fractional and interim CFO services firm serving emerging and founder-owned companies. He brings 25+ years of expertise in financial strategy, corporate restructuring, capital raising, and GAAP-compliant financial reporting. Salvatore has raised 15 years of experience as a venture capital partners investing in growth businesses and has over a decade of CFO-experience advising growth companies on their financial strategy and operational execution. At Schmidt Brothers he advises the founder-led management team on strategy, finance and operations.

Karen Schmidt
Head of Marketing & Advisor

Karen Schmidt is a recognized global marketing and growth executive with 20+ years of experience building and scaling consumer brands. Former executive at American Express and Verizon Media, she has led customer-centric growth initiatives and developed sustainable go-to-market strategies for leading brands. Karen oversees Schmidt Brothers’ DTC growth strategy and brand marketing.

Names and titles as disclosed on StartEngine, SEC Form C. Bios and photos come from the platform campaign page and may be out of date.

Reg CF annual-report compliance

Not obligated

never closed a Reg CF raise

37 investors
holder-count proxy

Reg CF issuers must file a Form C-AR each year until a Rule 202(b) termination trigger is met.

SEC filings

  • Form CSep 14, 20260002151382-26-000002
    EDGAR
Source: SEC EDGARCIK 0002151382DEShare price $1.47Last synced Sep 15, 2026

About this data. Figures are compiled from public sources — SEC EDGAR filings (Form C, C-AR, 1-A, 1-K) and funding-platform pages — and may be delayed, incomplete, or restated by the issuer. Financial statements are as reported by the issuer; each year is labeled with its assurance level (audited / reviewed / unaudited). A valuation cap is the conversion ceiling of a SAFE or convertible note, not an agreed company valuation; post-money figures are computed as pre-money plus amount raised and are not a traded price. Crowdonomics is not a broker-dealer, funding portal, or investment adviser; nothing here is investment advice or an offer to sell securities. Verify all figures against the linked EDGAR filings.