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) | 11 | $3.2M |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | $1.0M |
| Financial Services | 1 | Undisclosed |
| E-Commerce | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Health Care | 1 | $212K |
| Analytics | 1 | $1.2M |
| Software | 1 | $10.0M |
| Automotive | 1 | $1.0M |
| Banking | 1 | $10.0M |
| Broadcasting | 1 | $352K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 10 | $1.0M |
| Menlo Park | 1 | $500K |
| Charlotte | 1 | $1.7M |
| Balbieriskis | 1 | $200K |
| Berlin | 1 | $212K |
| São Paulo | 1 | $1.2M |
| Lyon | 1 | $847K |
| Brisbane | 1 | $10.0M |
| Causeway Bay | 1 | $1.0M |
| Austin | 1 | $10.0M |
Mineflow is an AI platform for predicting mineral deposit shapes and locations, helping mining companies from exploration to feasibility.
Moreta offers a digital wallet for international travelers to make payments using their phones.
Opslane is an open tool that makes incident response easier by automating work and providing important details for engineers.
Overlap is an IT and Internet firm offering a solution to find informative content inside long form content like Youtube.
Ply Health helps behavioral health providers see more patients by getting them in a network with insurance companies.
Poka Labs is developing AI-driven production scheduling solutions for the chemical manufacturing industry.
Polymet helps early-stage teams create high volumes of design work as they grow providing fast and high-quality output.
Promi revolutionizes e-commerce pricing by implementing dynamic, personalized discounts, maximizing customer engagement and satisfaction.
Proxis is an AI based cloud computing platform designed for large language model distillation and serving.
Random Labs develops a local open-source software engine, promoting collaboration and accessibility for all in tech.
RescriptDocs provides an AI platform that rewrites, organizes, and manages documents for clearer and structured text.
Vectari designs bank-grade AI fueled by regulatory expertise.
Unblock offers a crypto service platform for business solutions.
Purple Metrics is the Marketing Mix Modeling software specialized in measuring the effects of branding investments.
Qwarks enables CGPs to provide their clients with the option of diversifying their assets with bitcoin via a management mandate.
Scruka is a scrum tool for agile development teams that allows users to collaborate, plan, and make estimates with their coworkers remotely.
Vis Mobility improves taxi safety via digital vehicle monitoring.
Bancoli offers smart invoicing, multi-currency global business bank accounts, funds security, and cash flow management features.
Innovative solution for livestreaming and videoconferencing in the cloud
Buyogo provides a platform for financial technology, electronic commerce, business-to-business trade.
AI Online Reputation SAAS to automate customer reviews in Google Maps, Google Play and App Store.
Duqu provides short-term business financing by advancing money on outstanding business-to-business invoices.
Prime Minute develops disaster response technology and a platform for emergency operations and critical infrastructure resilience.
Redefine Surgery develops AI-powered surgical navigation and robotics technology for orthopedic procedures.
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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