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) | 12 | $5.5M |
| Analytics | 4 | $1.5M |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $1.0M |
| Casual Games | 1 | $500K |
| Apps | 1 | $500K |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | $1.3M |
| Electronic Health Record (EHR) | 1 | $2.0M |
| Information Technology | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Robotics | 1 | $4.8M |
| Developer Platform | 1 | $500K |
Overshoot AI offers an SDK to run vision language models on live video and return real-time analysis from plain English prompts.
Oximy offers software that monitors enterprise AI usage, tracks adoption and spend, and supports governance and compliance.
Pax Historia is a gaming company that offers an alternate history sandbox game where players can create their own worlds.
Payna builds regulatory compliance automation software for managing licensing and reporting requirements in regulated industries.
Pollen is a SaaS company that offers agentic AI platform for autonomous customer retention.
Pollinate offers a supply chain execution platform that connects ERP data to manage procurement, inventory, invoices, and supplier workflow.
Polymath builds AI training environments to develop and evaluate autonomous agents on long and complex software tasks.
Prana Health AI offers a health assistant that gathers symptoms, analyzes health data, and connects users to doctors for virtual visits.
Protent is an AI platform that provides video intelligence for real time threat detection and proactive security operations.
PulseLedger develops AI-based financial management software for small and medium-sized businesses.
Remix is an agentic AI company that offers app that allows users to create content using AI.
Ressl AI develops AI agents that configure Salesforce, automate CRM tasks, troubleshoot errors, and document changes.
Rev1 offers AI-powered geometric, dimensioning, and tolerancing automation for mechanical engineers.
Ritivel develops AI native regulatory workforce platform for regulatory and medical writing teams at life science companies.
Rubric AI offers software that structures expert human judgment into datasets and evaluation systems for training and testing AI models.
Ruma Care offers software that automates prior authorizations and copay assistance for biologic treatments.
Salus offers AI runtime controls that validate and block agent tool calls, enforce policies, and guide retries with feedback.
Sentrial offers an AI agent observability platform that monitors behavior, detects issues, suggests code fixes, and integrates via APIs.
Servo7 offers warehouse robots that automate packing, order fulfillment, sorting, and returns using machine learning.
Shortkit offers an SDK for integrating, delivering, managing, and analyzing short-form vertical videos.
Sila is an agentic workplace messaging and collaboration platform that enables teams and AI agents to communicate, and automate tasks.
Sitefire offers AI search analytics and content tools that track brand visibility across AI models and generate optimized blog content.
Skillsync offers a web platform that analyzes open source work to identify engineers, map technical skills, and support recruiting.
Sparkles offers a cloud environment where teams build, test, and preview code changes.
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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