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) | 3 | $700K |
| Internet | 2 | $1.7M |
| EdTech | 2 | $3.5M |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | $1.5M |
| Apparel | 1 | $400K |
| Retail Technology | 1 | $420K |
| Human Resources | 1 | $2.5M |
| Credit | 1 | $350K |
| Commercial Real Estate | 1 | $250K |
| Beauty | 1 | $2.2M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2 | $750K |
| Copenhagen | 2 | $1.1M |
| Brooklyn | 1 | $1.5M |
| Limassol | 1 | $400K |
| Kansas City | 1 | $500K |
| San Diego | 1 | $350K |
| Victoria | 1 | $420K |
| Toronto | 1 | $100K |
| Alvaro Obregón | 1 | $2.5M |
| Frisco | 1 | $250K |
Doormat operates as an all-in-one crypto trading terminal featuring key swarms and automations.
Platform for with an original content about fashion, style, clothes etc. by creators.
FanCave is the platform that allows all fans to directly offer recruits and participate in all opportunities with athletes.
GenAI turn-key platform for secure enterprise
AI-powered procurement platform for restaurants and supermarkets
CrowdCore is an AI-driven influencer marketing platform that automates discovery, outreach, and campaign optimization to drive content.
AI-powered platform connecting marginalized talent to fair jobs, helping employers boost retention & productivity.
Systems Integration (SI) partner, with expertise in 4G/5G MNO & Private Wireless Networks.
Juri Capital facilitates the purchase and advance payment of labor lawsuit credits for workers and legal professionals.
Kamina provides a prevention platform for financial institutions and leverages advanced technology and data analytics.
The StartEngine for Real Estate
Sourcerie is to assist those who are underserved by the beauty industry in locating the finest products and routines for them.
Threatrix creates cloud-native enterprise open source security, compliance, and supply chain risk management solutions.
Wand Solar focuses on making solar energy accessible and profitable for landlords, contributing to a greener, sustainable future.
Noro is a life-size immersive videoconferencing solution that connects distributed teams as if in the same room.
Keyturn purchases, designs, and managers investing in rental real estate.
Aida uses machine learning and gene expression of individual tumors to help clinicians to prescribe the best drugs for each cancer patient.
Alice & Smith is a middleware technology developer for Microsoft in the fields of Media & Entertainment, Azure Cloud, and AI.
Amplify Therapeutics is dedicated to the development of transformative, disease-modifying therapies for Gaucher disease.
Bloom provides software for managing employee health and absence with personalized absence tracking, reporting, and data-driven insights.
The Robin for the Batman, but in tech innovation
The first VC in the north of Argentina
Flowlie offers an AI platform for fundraising, handling investor research, network analysis, CRM, and pitch performance insights.
Esports coaching platform that is the only in the market offering the full-spectrukm of coachings services to gamers
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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