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 | $2.8M |
| E-Commerce | 2 | $913K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $50K |
| Event Management | 1 | $250K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $500K |
| Energy | 1 | $852K |
| Digital Entertainment | 1 | $500K |
| Data Center | 1 | $276K |
| Fleet Management | 1 | $1.4M |
| Crowdfunding | 1 | $528K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $4.4M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $2.4M |
| Amsterdam | 2 | $2.6M |
| Edinburgh | 1 | $50K |
| New York | 1 | $250K |
| Tallinn | 1 | $250K |
| Copenhagen | 1 | $798K |
| Toronto | 1 | $300K |
| Calgary | 1 | $852K |
| Reykjavík | 1 | $500K |
Delic is the new operating system for the Music Business. Asset and rights management platform using digital and blockchain technologies.
FEMI AINA NEW YORK designs and sells apparel for Pan-African heritage and storytelling through culturally influenced fashion collections.
Micetribe develops software to help event planning platform.
TriFetch is a San Francisco-based healthcare AI startup focused on bridging AI foundations with practical healthcare applications.
Atech simplifies electronic prototyping by enabling users to design & assemble physical devices using natural language prompts and modular.
Bento Labs builds production infrastructure for AI agents to monitor what runs, improve what fails with compound learnings.
iconAI is a personalized styling tool that generates outfit suggestions based on user preferences, occasions, and style inputs.
Serenity Power is a developer of solid oxide fuel cell systems delivering low-emission, noise-free, multi-fuel clean energy for industries.
Vitar Games is a gaming platform.
Aimy is a software company that provides administrative work and saved labor cost services.
Cargoful is the next-generation Transportation Management System (TMS) to enable a flawless end-to-end order management.
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Flobers is a Crowdfunding and Crowdlending platform that democratizes investment in renewable energies.
Building the strongest communities.
Oware Technologies offers cloud-based supply chain solutions focusing on warehouse management and shipment tracking for emerging markets.
Bloom & Wolf is a brand new collection of the most beautiful silk flowers.
Pixacare Application automates wound-healing monitoring.
Bonapp.eco offers an app that allows retailers to sell goods nearing the expiration date to consumers.
AI agents for commercial building operations
Smarter Maintenance driving Operational Excellence for Latam SMBs
Supercharge your business with immersive 3D experiences
Mirai Flights is a service for instant booking of private jets with price transparency and handy one-click payment method.
Monspire assists small businesses in preparing for the unexpected, minimizing surprises, and expanding with confidence.
Rita is a zero-party data marketplace, making the exchange of consumer data more fair, transparent and accessible.
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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