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) | 6 | $15.1M |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $1.7M |
| Dental | 1 | $1.0M |
| Speech Recognition | 1 | $5.7M |
| Blockchain | 1 | $1.0M |
| Aquaculture | 1 | $832K |
| Energy Storage | 1 | $273K |
| Apparel | 1 | $300K |
| Health Care | 1 | $300K |
| Analytics | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 5 | $6.8M |
| Singapore | 3 | $2.0M |
| Paris | 1 | $1.2M |
| Amsterdam | 1 | $5.7M |
| New Castle | 1 | $1.2M |
| Aventura | 1 | $1.0M |
| Viña Del Mar | 1 | $832K |
| Riga | 1 | $273K |
| Brooklyn | 1 | $300K |
| Saint Louis | 1 | $300K |
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Cleavr is an AI-powered accounts receivable platform linked to ERP systems that helps businesses collect payments and recover money owed.
Dentronic is a medical AI robotics business that focuses on dental care automation.
Reson8 provides highly customizable, real-time speech recognition designed for European languages.
Rexi is an AI-native financial reconciliation tool designed for banks, payment businesses, and contemporary fintechs.
Swish Robotics offers embodied intelligence or an ecosystem of specialized consumer robots that solve redundant daily tasks such as cooking.
Thesauros is a DeFi protocol that enables effortless yield generation on stablecoins through a seamless one-click experience.
Aquit develops preventive treatments for infections in fish that replace antibiotics, improve survival rates, and boost natural immunity.
Engycell is an energy management and trading software that provides flexibility services on demand.
Les Aimants offers bridal apparel, simplifying the shopping experience with tech, online measurements, and studio try-ons.
ThriveLink is a healthcare company that uses AI to provide on-demand social services and medically-tailored meals.
xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems.
Bisque is a survey platform that supports survey logic and complex workflows without making the process hard to use.
Entourage AI operates in the HealthTech sector, focusing on longevity and health span through AI-powered proteomics analysis.
Hex Security is a cybersecurity company that offers autonomous AI agents for penetration testing in web apps and APIs.
Noru builds an AI-native platform for regulatory compliance.
Fintech, credit marketplace, AI, ML, SME
Kubegrade provides tools for managing Kubernetes clusters.
SekGames is a mobile game studio that develops hybrid casual games.
Filtroo is a monetization platform that helps users earn rewards and benefits by using social media.
Quantex AI handles challenging data science projects and obtain precise insights.
Villie is a village hub! List baby registries, share pregnancy and baby updates, raise funds, and play the gender reveal game.
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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