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 | $4.7M |
| Energy | 1 | $500K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Aerospace | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Analytics | 1 | $500K |
| Education | 1 | $500K |
| Bookkeeping and Payroll | 1 | $500K |
| B2B | 1 | $1.8M |
| Computer Vision | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Battery | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 13 | $4.0M |
| Singapore | 3 | $3.9M |
| Paris | 1 | $500K |
| Berkeley | 1 | Undisclosed |
| San Ramon | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Seattle | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Willowbrook | 1 | $1.0M |
| Bethesda | 1 | $650K |
| Birmingham | 1 | $775K |
| New York | 1 | $250K |
Condor Energy is an energy tech company that offers operating system software for industrials, retailers, and data centers.
Congruent develops radar hardware and simulation software that generates raw real and synthetic data for autonomous vehicle training.
Corelayer automates on-call support by using AI agents to monitor logs and data, detect anomalies, and suggest fixes for production issues.
Crow provides an AI software platform where users upload content, connect data, and interact with agents that process the information.
Daivin is an oxygen-generating equipment manufacturing company which helps humans breathe underwater without oxygen tanks.
Docura Health offers AI platform that analyzes medical records and generates med-legal reports with impairment rating calculations.
End Close offers software that automates payment reconciliation, exception handling, and compliance reporting.
Envariant builds an AI interpretability SDK that lets teams inspect, steer, and control foundation model behavior programmatically.
Eos AI creates an uniform data infrastructure for healthcare AI by transforming unstructured medical data.
Fed10 offers software that uses AI agents to monitor legislation, identify bills affecting businesses, and deliver insights on policies.
Fixture is an AI integrated CRM platform to communicate with customers, track marketing channels and form single go-to-market context store.
Foreman is an AI platform helping contractors manage estimates, proposals, documents, contracts, and payments in one place.
Forum is an online community platform where marketplace sellers discuss e-commerce, share tips, ask questions, and learn selling strategies.
Glue provides a software tool that allows developers and coding agents to build and modify user interfaces directly from code.
Grade is a platform that manages performance-based payouts, invoices, and global payments for freelancers and contractors.
HireQuotient is a HR tech company, disrupting the future of non-tech hiring.
Inviscid AI offers physics-informed AI tool that simulates and optimizes building airflow, HVAC, and energy systems.
Kita Technologies uses computer vision and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured underwriting data.
Kyten Technologies builds custom aerospace-grade battery packs, handling design, testing, and high-volume manufacturing for vehicles.
Credit Booster AI is a $7B industry disruptor, granting individuals and businesses access top tier capital partners.
MyWorker AI boosts sales and productivity with AI-powered Sales Development Representatives.
NovNat develops advanced materials and systems for atmospheric water harvesting.
Quarkonix primarily operates as a software development company.
Socialize is a platform with easy tutorials that helps anyone create content for social media.
Frenalytics is a developer of a cloud-based interactive platform designed to address learning issues due to cognitive deficits.
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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