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 | $14.6M |
| Education | 2 | $500K |
| Analytics | 2 | $2.0M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $1.5M |
| Software | 1 | $100K |
| Apps | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Business Development | 1 | $500K |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 1 | $3.4M |
| Real Estate Brokerage | 1 | $24K |
| Fashion | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | $2.5M |
| London | 2 | $1.7M |
| Berlin | 2 | $12.1M |
| Panama City | 1 | $100K |
| Newport Beach | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Minneapolis | 1 | $500K |
| Reykjavík | 1 | $100K |
| Espoo | 1 | $3.4M |
| Pärnu | 1 | $24K |
| Philadelphia | 1 | Undisclosed |
Prospect1 provides a sports intelligence platform for athlete scouting, development, and team connections.
An artificial intelligence company creating synthetic media for the B2B IP licensing market.
Blast helps gamers save and win money by playing their favorite games.
RMT Solutions is a technology retailer service company.
Willo is collaborating closely with businesses to transfer power from cables to the air.
SaaS, PropTech, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
Coblr is the system of record powering the $25B global fashion repair industry.
Dataline Labs is the creator of a platform for data transformation that transforms different data sources into infrastructure.
Evonova Group builds retail applications using AI, robotics, and physical infrastructure for café operations.
Konasense provides a security platform to monitor and govern enterprise artificial intelligence interactions.
LumeFi is a DeFi platform that helps users manage digital assets, optimize yield, and access on-chain financial tools.
Sustainable Real Estate Development and Investment
Qontext is an AI platform that acts as a unified context layer for businesses.
Eluvium builds AI agents to automate sales & operations for manufacturers.
NOS Agent | Go To Market AI Agent
Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.
Loamist operates as a climate-tech startup.
SaaS platform that helps engage employees and increase productivity by creating a sense of community and belonging at work.
Lifestyle entertainment company specializing in retail sales, events, and content partnerships
Resonance is a customizable BizOps platform that gives clients a single pane-of-glass view to manage all of their business and operations.
Velatir deliver AI-native security and compliance solutions that help enterprises safely adopt and scale intelligent agents.
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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