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) | 4 | $7.2M |
| Analytics | 3 | $4.7M |
| Financial Services | 2 | $926K |
| Health Care | 1 | $381K |
| Energy | 1 | $250K |
| Insurance | 1 | $150K |
| Apps | 1 | $250K |
| Animal Feed | 1 | $1.7M |
| FinTech | 1 | $400K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $1.0M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 3 | $3.7M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $500K |
| Madrid | 1 | $381K |
| Newark | 1 | $250K |
| Quito | 1 | $150K |
| Brasil | 1 | $250K |
| Lewes | 1 | $1.6M |
| Mildenhall | 1 | $335K |
| Miami | 1 | $1.7M |
| Prague | 1 | $1.7M |
Thytech is a health technology company that develops sophisticated cell therapies to restore immunological balance.
NuWorld Energy is a solar power company that provides complete services and solutions for energy efficiency improvements.
Sports management software for leagues & teams that offers player insurance for medical coverage.
Petlivery is an online retail platform for pet store owners that helps to enhances the sale of products and services.
Sonibel Instruments operates as a Real-time weld defect detection for welding.
Wholesum provides an AI-powered data analytics platform that transforms volumes of text into structured, statistically grounded insights.
Petwealth was founded on the straightforward belief that the finest pet care begins before symptoms manifest.
Felix provides an AI workflow automation platform, enabling teams in legal, insurance, and finance.
Chime Labs is an AI-powered virtual receptionist platform that answers calls, qualifies leads, and books jobs for service businesses.
Impact Card is a financial services company that offers a revenue generation platform for colleges and universities.
Aloha offers a platform to manage bookings, operations, marketing, and payments for small hoteliers and property managers.
Revolutionizes the food industry by using AI to optimize production, enhance product quality, and predict consumer trends
Wiv.ai is a FinOps automation platform helping enterprises optimize cloud spend with AI-driven workflows and agentic automation.
Skry provides data and insights on digital collectibles
The Jream Company provides apparel design, manufacturing, sourcing, and logistics services.
Well Traveled offers trip advice and travel booking services.
Finansystech is a platform that practices open banking system to find financial solutions.
Offgrid Finance channels capital to growing businesses in emerging markets for clean and productive use technology.
Wearable that decodes inner voice
Coastal Measures is an environmental data company using AI to turn raw aquaculture data into informed decisions.
Ridge AI develops data infrastructure and artificial intelligence solutions that support data processing, analysis, and model deployment.
SimpleHash is an NFT data platform that specializes in infrastructure for multi-chain NFT indexing and querying.
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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