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 9,222 recently funded pre-seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 9 | $4.4M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $1.8M |
| FinTech | 1 | $335K |
| Property Management | 1 | $250K |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | $150K |
| E-Commerce | 1 | $612K |
| Environmental Consulting | 1 | $2.2M |
| Human Resources | 1 | $500K |
| Brand Marketing | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Advice | 1 | $350K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 4 | $2.4M |
| Buenos Aires | 1 | $335K |
| San Francisco | 1 | $500K |
| Dover | 1 | $250K |
| Brussels | 1 | $324K |
| Austin | 1 | $250K |
| New York | 1 | $900K |
| Tamm | 1 | $150K |
| Bogotá | 1 | $200K |
| Barcelona | 1 | $612K |
Cresium is a financial platform for Latin American SMEs that combines banking, investments, and loans in one simple solution.
Endstack develops a cloud desktop operating system with an integrated AI agent for individuals and teams.
RentRemote is a SaaS company that offers a platform designed for remote working professionals looking for furnished rentals.
Zapio is a Voice of the Customer Platform that helps retail chains better understand and serve their customer.
Predictable provides custom predictive AI for marketers integrated with cloud data warehouses and CDPs.
BHK Industry is an IT company that specializes in cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and advisory services.
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Glyde is a AI recruiting platform
iHunt is Latin Americas largest crowd-recruitment platform with presence in 10 countries within the region.
Kittykat is a global visual image company which uses traditional and AI to create images, videos, stop-motions and UGC's for its clients.
Personal Finance Tools for Tech Professionals. We help people working in tech make smarter financial decisions
olivia is a software development company that provides management software for restaurants.
Pensify is a fintech that helps SMEs to setup a pension within 10 minutes.
SugarCube is a Mobile app that utilizes smart contracts, APIs and AI/ML to provide positive healthier insights to our diabetic user base.
Retri is a two-sided marketplace for heavy equipment rental
Listo helps companies transform their products into apps that live and function inside major AI platforms.
Yolo Bank is an AI-powered fintech helping university students stay enrolled by reducing tuition default.
GasHawk is a blockchain company that prevents failed and stuck transactions via our intelligent queue manager.
SaaS B2B circular procurement platform for sustainable and circular materials.
Bemyvega is a platform to broadcast and stream live classes.
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 9,222 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 9,222 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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