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 | $3.2M |
| Health Care | 2 | $692K |
| Energy Management | 1 | $651K |
| Biotechnology | 1 | $750K |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | $1.4M |
| Fitness | 1 | $4.1M |
| Online Auctions | 1 | $2.1M |
| Generative AI | 1 | $4.0M |
| Medical | 1 | $300K |
| Media and Entertainment | 1 | $2.5M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 4 | $7.7M |
| Sydney | 2 | $1.4M |
| Austin | 2 | $130K |
| Budapest | 1 | $651K |
| Lincolnshire | 1 | $750K |
| Dublin | 1 | $3.1M |
| Milan | 1 | $4.1M |
| Belo Horizonte | 1 | $300K |
| San Francisco | 1 | $2.5M |
| Denver | 1 | $1.0M |
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Accretion Therapeutics is a pharmaceuticals company.
Agentsy is a real estate-focused AI platform designed around local laws, property data, and industry operations.
Presage Labs is an applied research laboratory that develops world models for cloud infrastructure and distributed platforms.
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CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.
Neuralk-AI is the first AI embedding model designed specifically for structured data representation.
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Progro Leads provides lead generation, sales development, and email marketing services for businesses.
USEFULL is the only tech-enabled, plastic-free takeout option for college dining operations.
Robotics in Construction and Property Services
B2B Saas for Financing and Investing at Scale, including through Alternative Investment Funds Orchestration
Pluz Care is a digital healthcare marketplace, connecting patients with pharmacies and doctors.
Scalene is creating and empowering the next generation of operators.
Taxnova is an AI platform automating R&D tax credits for tech companies
ElephantSqlDB provides a managed cloud database service that uses quantum computing algorithms to support data storage and processing.
Banco Boreal is a financial services platform in Brazil that offers a suite of solutions designed to optimize business financial management.
Biotasmart provides at-home gut microbiota testing and reports bacterial composition from stool samples.
Popcorn AI is a platform enabling WhatsApp-based sales, support, and marketing through automated conversational agents.
Optivian is an AI sales execution system for the agentic era that uses autonomous AI agents to oversee complex B2B trade workflows.
Polaron is a startup specializing in AI-driven materials design.
Emma Legal automates legal due diligence in M&A transactions
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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