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) | 3 | $6.2M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.4M |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | $3.5M |
| Logistics | 1 | $1.4M |
| Media and Entertainment | 1 | $1.1M |
| FinTech | 1 | $1.0M |
| Generative AI | 1 | $500K |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | $217K |
| Health Care | 1 | $641K |
| Android | 1 | $850K |
Distributed trading infrastructure for digital assets
Northbound uses optimized container logistics to charge delay and demurrage.
Station is a media monetization platform
Parable is an AI solution that contextualizes and visualizes how an organization is spending its time
Transform the banking experience for your customers
Earlybird is voice-centric onboarding software for the employment industry.
Mindely is an AI interviewer enabling companies to deploy customizable skill assessments on demand, simulating human interviews.
Accelerating containerized workloads with distributed computing.
PreActiv provides personalized programs to improve treatment outcomes.
Innovative software that improves digital organization in everyday consumers' home & life, creating more joy and space to thrive in life
Job Fit Assessments with Personality and Skill Matching of Candidates to Open Roles
Rapida.ai is a platform for developers, product managers and data scientists to build production-grade Gen AI application within days
Orus Energy leverages the power of AI to unlock potential of electrical flexibility in commercial buildings.
Roboat offers autonomy for inland waterway vessels.
Gelomics operates as a biotechnology company.
CO2Brew provides a CO2 recovery technology specifically designed to help small-to-medium-sized craft breweries reduce their GHG emissions.
ISPTech offers affordable, reliable and quickly available propulsion solution for any spacecraft
nycrypto is a Blockchain, DeFi, and crypto education content and products.
OpenFi's purpose is to use AI to transform and empower consumer engagements.
Happypop is a beverage company specializing in Mood-Boosting and Clean Energy.
Building the personal digital assistant for parents, starting with managing kids' camps, sports and activities
Radius1 is a technology company offering data analytics solutions to streamline operations and enhance business decision-making.
Besti is an application designed to assist employees in managing their stress levels within the workplace.
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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