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) | 15 | $6.0M |
| Apps | 2 | $500K |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $3.0M |
| CRM | 1 | $500K |
| Biotechnology | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Information Technology | 1 | Undisclosed |
| CAD | 1 | $500K |
| File Sharing | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 18 | $8.5M |
| Stockholm | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Wilmington | 1 | $500K |
| New York | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Berkeley | 1 | $500K |
| Detroit | 1 | $500K |
| Menlo Park | 1 | $500K |
| Dover | 1 | $1.0M |
Arzule is an AI-native ecosystem revenue platform that predicts, manages, and quantifies the revenue impact of B2B SaaS partnerships.
Zatanna develops AI-powered front office assistant to streamline administrative tasks in healthcare and improve patient experience.
Librar is a library management software that offers shelf scanning, sorting, book recommendation, purchase management, and a website.
Scheduling Wizard develops medical scheduling automation software designed for residency and fellowship programs in the healthcare sector.
InventoryQuant is an AI platform that converts audio and video inventory data into structured, itemized reports for insurance workflows.
Origin is a biotech company that creates patient-derived cancer single-cell dataset for licensing to pharmaceutical and AI companies.
Cofia builds AI software that learns user workflows, generates task automations, and executes repetitive work.
Aemon builds an AI system that reads code and research, runs experiments, and improves engineering solutions against defined tests.
Approxima is an AI platform that uses agents to identify issues, write code, and validate fixes to automate software development.
Ashr offers a platform that evaluates AI agents by running tool calls, prompts, scoring outputs, and tracing execution paths.
Asimov collects and labels real-world human activity data to train AI models for robots to operate in physical environments.
Aurorin CAD offers is a software company that offers AI-native CAD for mechanical engineers and hardware businesses.
AutoSitu builds Co-ordinated AI agents to provide expert-level guidance and catch issues for real estate development.
Beesafe AI offers a fraud prevention platform that engages scammers to identify mule accounts, disrupt payment, and trust-based scams.
Booko App offers software that lets businesses manage bookings, schedules, and customer reservations.
BrainGrid is an AI product planner that helps you plan ideas, features, and activities for your AI coding tools.
Bubble Lab offers an AI platform that converts natural language into TypeScript workflows with logging, APIs, and exportable code.
Byteport is a software development company building a next-gen protocol for moving large data files 10x faster than traditional TCP.
Canary offers an AI platform that runs automated tests, monitors application behavior, and detects issues across software workflows.
Cardboard is a browser-based video editing tool that uses AI to create and refine video drafts from raw footage.
Carrot Labs develops AI software that generates and tests code changes to help developers build and modify software applications.
Cascade offers infrastructure that monitors AI agents, evaluates safety, detects failures, and improves the autonomous systems.
Claimglide offers an AI software that automates prior authorization requests, payer follow-ups, and appeals for healthcare providers.
CodeWisp is an online platform that helps beginners learn coding by creating simple games using visual tools and JavaScript.
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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