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) | 9 | $11.2M |
| Analytics | 2 | $1.5M |
| B2B | 2 | $4.6M |
| Apps | 2 | $800K |
| 3D Printing | 1 | $646K |
| Consulting | 1 | $2.3M |
| E-Commerce | 1 | $647K |
| Application Performance Management | 1 | $1.2M |
| Manufacturing | 1 | $1.3M |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | $2.0M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2 | $775K |
| San Francisco | 2 | $1.9M |
| Cholet | 2 | $3.6M |
| Roskilde | 1 | $646K |
| Milan | 1 | $2.3M |
| Copenhagen | 1 | $646K |
| Sydney | 1 | $1.0M |
| Loughborough | 1 | $546K |
| San Jose | 1 | $1.3M |
| Seattle | 1 | $2.5M |
Copenhagen Microsystems develops 3D ice lithography systems for nanoscale additive manufacturing.
Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
AffinityAI ApS provides AI-powered protein binders called Designerbodies™ for research.
Evatto is an AI-powered enterprise operating system designed to manage and streamline complex event programs.
TransHumanity is an AI-driven software company that offers a platform to simplify complex transport data for seamless urban mobility.
CoreThink is an AI platform that offers capable AI systems to access, control and customise solutions across enterprise workflows.
Ethosphere, a new Seattle startup building voice AI for retail operation
Rulebase offers an AI-driven platform designed to automate quality assurance and compliance monitoring across customer interactions.
AI-powered vendor management platform that helps payers evaluate, procure, and monitor digital health to relieve point-solution fatigue.
Pulpo is a group-purchase platform for digital subscriptions.
Sourcing platform and B2B marketplace for sustainable packaging for SMEs
Comprehensive AI platform that combines empathetic AI with conversational AI
Lucky Sweater is a community app that makes it easy & fun for people with shared passions to buy, sell, trade together. Reddit for commerce.
KAWA Analytics is a no-code data platform that provides real-time analytics, amazing charts and powerful automations
Digital Pet Passport that makes cross-border travel with dogs and cats simple, safe, and humane, matching health records to entry rules.
TesterArmy provides an AI-powered QA platform that tests web and mobile apps via real browser runs and CI integrations.
Fuse Diagnostics vision is to give lab quality diagnostic information wherever it is required through innovative, quick, low-cost testing.
Persistent, forkable and suspendable virtual machines for agents and agentic workloads.
Bravi offers an AI‑powered voice and chat assistant that handles lead qualification, appointment booking, and CRM integration.
Bravi offers an AI‑powered voice and chat assistant that handles lead qualification, appointment booking, and CRM integration.
Depotcharge operates a B2B marketplace for shared depot charging for electric truck and commercial vehicle fleets.
OriginalVoices is providing real human context for AI agents and workflows using a network of over 40,000 user-owned Digital Twins.
AcademyAI is an enterprise workforce development platform that assesses and builds AI skills across an organization.
BlueArc's AI-powered platform helps risk and compliance teams automate due diligence and risk management of their commercial customers.
Covee is an AI-powered SaaS platform designed to automate the operational workflows.
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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