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) | 5 | $3.0M |
| CleanTech | 2 | $4.1M |
| Health Care | 2 | $724K |
| Apps | 2 | $377K |
| Communities | 2 | $2.5M |
| Agriculture | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Cloud Data Services | 1 | $1.2M |
| Credit Cards | 1 | $2.0M |
| Web Development | 1 | $1.0M |
| Automotive | 1 | Undisclosed |
automation of sales admin work - from updating SFDC fields to follow up emails, creation of pitch-decks and account plans, using LLMs
Agritrack is an agriculture process automation platform that tracks quality from farm to fork, aiming to reduce food loss and food fraud.
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Bend is a financial technology company that provides corporate cards built for climate-friendly businesses.
Carviz offers an AI-powered mobile app that guides fast, accurate vehicle inspections and generates digital reports.
CNDO is on a mission to change the way people connect and interact online.
Emitiq provides tools for measuring, reporting, and verifying environmental projects.
EnlitenAI is an AI driven platform for neurological conditions aimed at better management and treatment of Epilepsy.
Fintech that provides a financing marketplace for energy efficiency projects
Erode AI helps businesses thrive in a changing climate with AI-driven, accurate weather forecasting tools.
Personalized electric heating systems for restaurants and outdoor spaces—reducing costs and improving guest comfort.
Kolonus is a proptech app automating residential community management, security, communication, and services integration
Kula is a software platform that supports real-world communities by organizing in-person events and facilitating offline connections.
Leagues is a platform for esports, we strive to be the future driver for all gamers that want to become players.
Mi Alma develops and operates an online social platform that supports grievers by memorializing legacies and remembrance.
Sommos digitizes informal collaborative savings associations (ROSCA) and individual and group savings schemes in LatAm.
The AI Platform for Creative Talent Management
Qeeps est la solution qui centralise et automatise vos locations
Tolemy Bio develops AI-driven tools to design, optimize, and control cell culture processes for advanced therapies.
Cross-border payments infrastructure for the next century of commerce
Holmes is an AI platform that autonomously tests applications and finds bugs before users find fault.
Klarify is a developer of AI practice management platform automating therapists’ administrative workflows.
Trust Club is an invite-only social network where members use trust points to access services, rentals, jobs, and loans.
Hale is a healthcare company that offers a hybrid clinic for gynecological conditions.
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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