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) | 3 | $9.4M |
| Analytics | 2 | $970K |
| Communities | 2 | $2.5M |
| Delivery | 1 | $120K |
| Hospitality | 1 | $550K |
| Productivity Tools | 1 | $350K |
| Education | 1 | $1.0M |
| Baby | 1 | $286K |
| Developer Platform | 1 | $1.2M |
| B2B | 1 | $900K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 2 | $6.5M |
| Paris | 2 | $1.3M |
| Miami | 1 | $120K |
| Guadalajara | 1 | $120K |
| San Juan | 1 | $550K |
| Redmond | 1 | $3.2M |
| Bryrup | 1 | $1.5M |
| Ingolstadt | 1 | $1.0M |
| Gdansk | 1 | $286K |
| New York | 1 | $1.0M |
GrupAI is a generative AI platform that enhances team productivity by organizing knowledge and automating workflows.
Fuddis is a social food marketplace enabling food creators to sell, manage, communicate, and deliver their products.
Otium is a tech-enabled hospitality company providing professional short-term rental and boutique hotel accommodations in the Caribbean.
Rengage makes it easy to create a unified journey, bringing all your customer touch points together in one place.
rhetora.ai helps burnt out sales reps by providing them an assistant to handle monotonous tasks
Kollektiv connects athletes with personalized training plans and expert support.
Safeverse is a training, Learning and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
BabyBiom is a baby protection company that creates probiotic cosmetics for children.
Salesramp is a software development company that develops sales commission software for businesses and sales staff.
Venture studio specializes in AI-based tools for ecommerce
Teach ‘n Go is the simplest, most essential and at the same time most capable Administration Tool for Teaching Providers.
The Healthcare Collection aims to manage services for the healthcare industry internationally.
Wally is a digital personal finance and budgeting platform.
Wizme makes meetings and events management magical through superior ease of use and smart technologies.
YuTU is a local social video platform that reaches and communicates people together.
PoM WM is an investment platform designed to support financial advisors in providing comprehensive wealth management services.
Building Africa's first continent wide blockchain powered cross-border Basic Necessity Marketplace
Karve is a vertical Saas software development focused on franchised organizations operations and management.
Next-Generation Human Resources - ReDev AI-Powered Recruiting Platform
Capboard offers a tool to digitize cap table, funding simulations, ESOP, investor relations and much more.
4impactdata is an AI-based tech company that offers guidance system services for high-profile people in companies.
Cardagraph predicts product delivery timelines.
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.
For a broader view of the startup funding landscape, explore all funding stages or browse companies by our full company directory. Whether you are looking for early-stage startups to invest in or growth-stage companies to sell to, VCBacked provides the data you need to identify and connect with the right companies.
Perfect for: B2B sales teams targeting pre-seed companies, investors exploring opportunities, and service providers looking for companies that just raised capital and are ready to scale.
Get Started - Access Contact InformationJoin thousands of sales teams, investors, and service providers using VCBacked