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 | $2.1M |
| Analytics | 2 | $3.5M |
| Health Care | 2 | $3.9M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $6.8M |
| Human Resources | 1 | $250K |
| Developer Tools | 1 | $7.6M |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $3.6M |
| Information Technology | 1 | $3.0M |
| 3D Printing | 1 | $2.4M |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | $3.5M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 3 | $1.5M |
| New York | 2 | $7.1M |
| Berkeley | 2 | $6.8M |
| Tokyo | 1 | $1.2M |
| Baltimore | 1 | $250K |
| East Palo Alto | 1 | $7.6M |
| Cambridge | 1 | $3.0M |
| New Haven | 1 | $2.4M |
| Sydney | 1 | $3.0M |
| Çankaya | 1 | $400K |
Workforce intelligence and project deployment platform that turns climate and infrastructure projects into workforce opportunities.
Modular, affordable general-purpose robots built for real work
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Jarmin offers machine-learning engineering services to help companies build and deploy AI/ML systems.
Alloy provides robotics teams with a single platform that enables them to organize, search, and analyze robot data
Building the platform for companies to ship AI agents fast
Melee Markets is a decentralized, Solana-based prediction platform that enables users to create and trade markets on any topic.
PixelByte designs AI-powered apps that offer creativity, automate tasks, and deliver digital experiences from concept to launch.
Seattle Ultrasonics aims to improve the lives of home cooks by making the best-performing kitchen tools
Alleviating depression with a ground-breaking, game-based digital therapeutics.
DialogSphere is an AI operating system for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents on-premise or in any cloud.
EarthFast is a blockchain service provider that offers secured crypto front-end hosting solutions.
Electrogenos is a technology and manufacturing start-up developing next-generation hydrogen alkaline electrolysers.
Imageryst is a cutting-edge SaaS platform.
Diversely provides a platform and that approach which assists hiring teams to through knowledge, data and meaningful candidate selection.
General Lattice specializes in developing CAD software solutions that help manufacturing businesses.
Lockster is a provider of on-demand smart lockers.
The Cut is an ultra premium sugarcane vodka brand crafting smooth spirits in Fort Worth.
Restara Medical develops an outcome-verified patient repositioning platform designed to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
Azulene Labs is a technology company focused on predictive Physics-AI for chemistry and biochemistry.
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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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