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) | 4 | $4.4M |
| Apps | 4 | $4.8M |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | $3.9M |
| B2B | 2 | $250K |
| Health Care | 2 | $1.2M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.0M |
| Machine Learning | 1 | $3.5M |
| Digital Marketing | 1 | $80K |
| Clinical Trials | 1 | $1.0M |
| Accounting | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $2.5M |
| Dover | 2 | $965K |
| San Francisco | 2 | $1.0M |
| Miami | 2 | $2.3M |
| Zürich | 2 | $2.4M |
| Headington | 1 | $3.5M |
| Denver | 1 | $80K |
| Saint-jérôme | 1 | $1.0M |
| Asunción | 1 | $1.2M |
| New York | 1 | $500K |
OxDX is a rapid pathogen detection company.
Pao is a mobile app that helps you find and share hidden gems. It is also a creative marketing agency that makes viral short form videos.
Modular healthcare system, SaaS, medical clinic management
Balance is an AI-powered accounting platform providing bookkeeping, financial insights, and automated workflows for businesses.
Orbit AI Systems turns satellite imagery into actionable geospatial intelligence via AI models, scheduling engines, and APIs.
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Mobile App, Dating, Social Network
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A marketplace for fractional real estate investing, management, and trading
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Lovewick is an app that helps couples stay in love once they’ve found it.
Proxi's no-code mapping software makes mapping and crowdsourcing geographic recommendations accessible to everyone.
Mobile Cuts is an on-demand mobile barbershop & salon, delivering hair care services to busy professional at their workplace.
Personify XP uses AI and automation personalization SAAS technology to help retailers understand what their customers are shopping for.
ScyAI is the developer of an autonomous risk intelligence tool designed to integrate multiple specialized agents.
Agovor is a horticultural robotics company that develops robotic towing machines that automate outdoor horticultural tasks.
Impower Health is a health-tech company developing AI-driven treadmill platform to measure, manage, and improve mobility.
Shotsy is a tracking application tailored for users of GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Zepbound.
Motivia is a pioneering health tech company dedicated to transforming the way patients manage chronic conditions.
Fight Back Against Confusing Medical Bills
Watches.io seeks to ease the tracking, selling, and purchasing process for luxury watches.
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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