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) | 6 | $6.7M |
| Analytics | 2 | $4.6M |
| Financial Services | 1 | $361K |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 1 | $3.4M |
| Facilities Support Services | 1 | $17.5M |
| Aerospace | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Generative AI | 1 | $300K |
| 3D Printing | 1 | $301K |
| Mapping Services | 1 | $619K |
| B2B | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 3 | Undisclosed |
| London | 3 | $3.9M |
| Paris | 2 | $6.1M |
| Toronto | 2 | $765K |
| Macomb | 1 | $361K |
| Bowling Green | 1 | $400K |
| El Segundo | 1 | $3.4M |
| New York | 1 | $17.5M |
| Cambridge | 1 | $1.1M |
| Boston | 1 | $500K |
Astraea is an AI native clinical trial platform that helps to automate the clinical trial process using AI agents.
Title Solutions Group provides title and settlement services for residential and commercial properties.
Communications platform for manufacturing facilities
Durin Mining Technologies builds autonomous drilling rigs to streamline and modernize mineral exploration processes.
Great Circle Group is a marine technology company that provides marine electronics sales, installation, and services.
Gander Robotics builds and develops robotic and autonomous solutions for defense and maritime rescue.
Omniscient analyzes global information to help companies track risks, reputation, and business trends for better decision-making.
Dispatch develops autonomous vehicles that transport cargo and research payloads between space and Earth.
GAI Insights is an industry analyst firm helping AI Leaders and AI vendors achieve business results with GenAl.
SEOZilla provides an AI-driven platform for search engine optimization and digital marketing analysis.
Sixtyfour is a AI based reasech service company that automates to enrich specialized professionals, company data, and insights.
Natural Velocity operates an ecosystem focused on addressing the AI supply chain challenge.
Stippl is a social travel platform that lets users explore, plan, and share all their trips and travel experiences.
Centro is an inventory operations platform for commerce businesses that improves the way that brands scale.
Book personalized and custom vacations for about the cost of joining a group tour, find active and adventure tours in over 80 countries.
DataWhisper specialises in creating augmented intelligence solutions that are secure, responsible, explainable and compliant.
Nice Rice is a ready-to-heat pouch brand that offers dry rice cartons.
Comend builds collaborative tools for the rare disease community and researchers to bring new treatments to market.
Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
Shorta is a mobile‑first platform for premium vertical fiction, delivering short‑form “micro‑series” designed specifically for phones.
Sillage is AI startup helping enterprise sales teams turn buying signals into qualified pipeline.
Nox Mobility is a transportation company that operates sleeper trains and private cabins for travel and tourism sectors.
Calibre helps people understand what is actually affecting their health and how to change it by combining causal AI with clinical expertise.
BASE4 is a women health care company providing strategies to ease hot flashes, boost energy, support digestion, and hormonal balance.
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.
For a broader view of the startup funding landscape, explore all funding stages or browse companies by our full company directory. Whether you are looking for early-stage startups to invest in or growth-stage companies to sell to, VCBacked provides the data you need to identify and connect with the right companies.
Perfect for: B2B sales teams targeting pre-seed companies, investors exploring opportunities, and service providers looking for companies that just raised capital and are ready to scale.
Get Started - Access Contact InformationJoin thousands of sales teams, investors, and service providers using VCBacked