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) | 20 | $10.0M |
| Analytics | 3 | $1.5M |
| Software | 1 | $500K |
| AgTech | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 21 | $10.5M |
| New York | 2 | $1.0M |
| London | 1 | $500K |
| Vancouver | 1 | $500K |
Kestroll is an AI-based platform that offers a central interface for the entire organization to access and distribute content.
Keystone is an AI-native testing platform that helps developers build, maintain, and run end-to-end tests at scale.
Knowlify is a text-to-explainer video engine that transforms textbooks, PDFs, and plain text into narrated videos using AI.
Lanesurf offers an AI voice assistant to conduct and manage carrier calls, vet compliance, and book freight loads programmatically.
Lark provides AI agents that automate billing operations via integrations with billing and support systems.
Liva AI provides real voice and video datasets for creating realistic AI models.
Locata provides an AI-powered referral management system for primary care providers.
Lotas builds an AI-powered coding assistant that can read, write, and edit files in RStudio.
MCP Use provides open-source developer tools and infrastructure for the model context protocol.
Mimos offers an AI platform that helps regulated firms improve visibility in AI search results and monitor content for compliance issues.
Minimal provides AI agents that handle e-commerce support by learning business rules and integrating with helpdesk and ticketing systems.
Monarcha is an AI GIS platform that offers AI-based geospatial data analysis.
Motives AI operates AI agents that design, recruit, conduct, and analyze consumer interviews.
Nexa builds implantable microchips for cattle monitoring and health management.
Nixo is an operations platform that equips FDEs with the necessary operations infrastructure.
Normal Factory automates hardware certification and testing to reduce compliance effort across standards like FCC, ISED, CE, and ASTM F963.
NOSO‚ÄØLABS builds AI agents that assist field technicians in diagnosing issues and identifying sales opportunities.
Nuntius is an IT Internet firm offering AI based automation platform for custom categories workflow.
OnDeck AI is a Software Development firm offering next generation visual intelligence for security services and government.
Outrove builds a system that uses artificial intelligence for hiring. The system talks to job candidates through voice and video.
Palace offers a platform that organizes private capital data, automates checks, tracks tasks, and streamlines portfolio workflows.
Paloma is an AI-native CRM that unifies contracts, usage, and context to automate post-sales and reduce churn.
Parachute provides governance infrastructure that helps hospitals evaluate, deploy, monitor, and audit clinical AI.
PARES is an AI-powered platform designed for commercial real estate professionals to streamline operations, productivity, and close deals.
Perspectives Health is an AI tool designed to streamline administrative tasks for behavioral health clinics.
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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