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 | $2.8M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $1.9M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.2M |
| Developer APIs | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Biotechnology | 1 | $165K |
| 3D Technology | 1 | $415K |
| Energy Efficiency | 1 | $173K |
| Financial Services | 1 | $500K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $6.9M |
| B2B | 1 | $3.9M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Wilmington | 2 | Undisclosed |
| São Paulo | 2 | $500K |
| Singapore | 2 | $3.5M |
| Atlanta | 1 | $415K |
| London | 1 | $173K |
| Bucharest | 1 | $650K |
| Milano | 1 | $1.3M |
| Wauwatosa | 1 | $500K |
| Saint-ouen-sur-gartempe | 1 | $6.9M |
| Berlin | 1 | $3.9M |
Convoy is an online gateway that sends, receives, and manages webhooks events.
Cor.Sync is biotetchnology company that offers ischemic cardiovascular disease diagnosis services at the emergency care.
We offer a patent-pending SDK that enables seamless interoperability between games and metaverses.
Dodo is a platform to capture emissions and issue green loans.
Financializing attention. Currently raising funds.
Five Elements Labs is a software company focused on web3 infrastructure and innovative DeFi products.
Keiken offers a digital wellness platform connecting users and companies with health and well-being professionals for services and content.
Voyager AI is the Unified Intelligence Platform for the financial industry, built by the team that created the Mobile Banking vertical.
Lemrock develops conversational platform designed to make websites more interactive and improve user engagement and revenue.
Finperks provides a unified API platform that orchestrates prepaid products like gift cards, cashback and employee benefits.
Abundera, Inc. provides AI-driven financial advocacy tools that help individuals identify and recover lost funds.
Aevius Labs is a company that offers technology related products and services.
Aiko builds a real-time intelligence layer for live sports.
Evolvable provides software that automatically writes, tests, fixes, and improves codebases continuously.
Sogni AI functions as a platform for decentralized creative AI.
Wavv: Empowering Entertainment with AI, Connecting Creativity and Technology, Building the Digital World of Tomorrow.
Arda Labs is the first universal operating system for real estate, enabling seamless execution across assets, finance, and data.
Changing the way we shop for Home Décor.
AI-powered productivity tool for busy professionals&teams to manage their day.
Feeder is a predictive AI created to analyze the reactions of marketing audiences to video contents with facial coding technology.
Lectrium helps Auto Dealers merchandise various powertrains (EV, PHEV, etc.) with range, charging, affordability, & sustainability tools
Nijta provides a robust and secure speech anonymization solution to contact centers.
Raiz Vertical Farms provides natural light and LEDs to produce farm-to-table crops for restaurants and communities.
B2B Enterprise SAAS, AI supervisor for front line workers
Wilab delivers real-time network APIs that empower GenAI agents to operate across multi-vendor telecom networks for smarter operations
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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