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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health Care | 2 | $3.0M |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $3.4M |
| EdTech | 2 | $1.2M |
| Fitness | 2 | $3.0M |
| Digital Entertainment | 1 | $787K |
| Hospitality | 1 | $552K |
| Big Data | 1 | $705K |
| Finance | 1 | $552K |
| AgTech | 1 | $148K |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | $1.2M |
Digital Fashion Framework operates a digital studio for fashion, entertainment, and gaming.
Emma Wanderer is a hospitality platform providing remote work, van life, and pioneering service for Europe’s outdoor-minded people.
Gaming Ecosystem with an automated instant tournaments and reward system.
Pontio is a sales financing platform for home improvement contractors.
Grapevine Technologies is a custom-made platform offers healthcare supply chain.
Greener is a B2B sustainability matchmaking platform for food and drink SMEs.
The first cohesive and integrated digital platform making cancer care accessible and affordable
The most seamless way for people to connect crypto accounts to any app.
Hortiya develops AI and plant-centric technology solutions for intelligent greenhouse growth and crop performance prediction.
Humaniz.io is an end-to-end recruiting platform designed to help real estate brokerage owners and team leaders scale their team.
AI-driven platform for micro businesses to automate marketing, client operations and business planning as if they had a dedicated team.
Kapdec connects talented tutors with learners worldwide.
Mattershaper is a manufacturing company that specializes in making 3D printers and 3D printing material.
Enatom specializes in advanced 3D visualization for human anatomy teaching.
Supply.Do offers complete supply chain management solutions and Virtual Fulfillment network.
Vesti is a fintech company that offers digital financial services for immigrants.
Alyte is a social fitness app where people can workout virtually with friends.
Llama Life is a task management tool designed to help people work through their to-do lists.
Nubocha offers gelato crafted with whole food and sustainably-sourced ingredients.
Rewire Fitness is a mental fitness platform that helps athletes and teams reach their potential and avoid burnout.
Centinel is a General-Purpose Accounting System Of Work For Enterprise.
Simpli is an IT firm offering AI Agents for Insurance Broking and Insurance services.
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 health care companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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