Pre-seed companies are in the earliest stages of development, often pre-product or pre-revenue. These startups typically raise under $1M to validate their concept and build their initial team.
Explore 9,419 recently funded pre-seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 9 | $18.6M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $1.7M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $2.4M |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | $1.4M |
| 3D Printing | 1 | $1.7M |
| Information Technology | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Ad Retargeting | 1 | $1.2M |
| Agentic AI | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Web Development | 1 | $600K |
| Generative AI | 1 | $450K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $12.1M |
| New York | 3 | $2.3M |
| San Francisco | 3 | $1.1M |
| Szczecin | 1 | $1.4M |
| Weston | 1 | $1.2M |
| Campelo | 1 | $1.7M |
| Walnut Creek | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Utrecht | 1 | $543K |
| Leiden | 1 | $1.7M |
| Zürich | 1 | $2.5M |
Defguard is an open-source on-premise security platform and was created to give businesses powerful capabilities for safe access control.
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Locorum is a business reward platform that provides cash back when hiring local services such as real estate, renovation, and mortgage.
Stage is a developer of an AI focused code review platform accelerating pull request approvals.
Triple Bio is a biotech startup focused on improving productivity and sustainability in dairy and beef production.
Infrawatch is a cybersecurity startup that helps track & analyze internet infrastructure to uncover phishing, fraud, & other cyber threats.
AVIAN is an industrial AI business that creates temperature monitoring and predictive safety systems for industrial applications.
AquaShield is an AI driven company that offers water leakage detection services for buildings.
Armature is a developer of agent experience platform testing, monitoring, and optimizing AI workflows.
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Mozart developed a conversational AI platform that helps companies recover debt through virtual agents.
Overwatch AI provides an offline-capable AI assistant designed for frontline teams in critical environments.
SKRIBER offers an AI-powered medical scribe platform that converts clinician-patient conversations into structured SOAP notes.
Fortiv is an AI business continuity platform designed to build resilience, put compliance on autopilot and demonstrate reliability.
Industrial Optimization as a Service
Orsay.ai provides a service that uses AI to automatically contact and qualify leads through platforms.
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BlueHill Payments is a payments technology company that manages complex billing.
Castle Finance is a software program that offers funding merchandise and economic equipment as a way to permit DAOs to thrive.
Precision medicine through polymathic AI
Impact Food is building a more sustainable food system through delicious and nutritious whole cut seafood alternatives.
Pre-seed funding is the earliest formal stage of startup financing. At this point, founders are typically working on validating an idea, building a prototype, or conducting initial customer discovery. Many pre-seed rounds come from personal savings, friends and family, angel investors, or early-stage accelerators. The company is usually pre-revenue and may not yet have a fully built product.
$50K - $2M
The actual amount varies based on market conditions, company traction, and investor appetite.
Pre-seed capital is generally used to build a minimum viable product (MVP), conduct customer interviews, hire the first one or two team members, and cover operating expenses while the founders validate their assumptions about the market.
Friends and family, angel investors, micro-VCs, and startup accelerators like Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Global are the most common pre-seed investors. Some institutional seed funds also participate in pre-seed rounds when they see exceptional founding teams.
At the pre-seed stage, investors focus less on traction metrics and more on the founding team, market opportunity, and the clarity of the problem being solved. A compelling pitch, evidence of domain expertise, and early user interest or waitlist signups can be enough to secure funding.
Based on 9,419 pre-seed companies tracked in the VCBacked database, here is a snapshot of current funding activity at this stage.
Finding companies that have recently raised pre-seed funding is valuable for sales teams, investors, recruiters, and service providers. Pre-Seed startups are actively spending their newly raised capital on tools, talent, and services, making them ideal prospects. VCBacked tracks 9,419 pre-seed companies with verified founder contact information, updated regularly as new rounds are announced.
You can narrow your search by filtering companies by industry vertical, city or region, or by exploring specific combinations such as Pre-Seed artificial intelligence (ai) companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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