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) | 8 | $7.9M |
| Apps | 2 | $1.3M |
| B2B | 2 | $2.2M |
| Analytics | 1 | $120K |
| E-Commerce | 1 | $750K |
| Industrial | 1 | $400K |
| Real Estate | 1 | $630K |
| FinTech | 1 | $1.7M |
| Health Care | 1 | $346K |
| Browser Extensions | 1 | $2.4M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $1.2M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $3.5M |
| Atlanta | 1 | $425K |
| Milan | 1 | $543K |
| Dallas | 1 | $750K |
| Paris | 1 | $3.5M |
| Rimini | 1 | $400K |
| Philadelphia | 1 | $285K |
| Austin | 1 | $750K |
| Greenville | 1 | $630K |
The risk and compliance operating system for the financial industry.
Ed/tech & Fintech app that allows young people to study finance in an easy, free and fun way, while also enabling them to save and invest.
Intanify is an AI-powered platform enabling companies, lawyers and funders put a value on intangible assets like IP, data and code
Uniqgene is a genetic test company that conducts tests for athletes in various sports branches like soccer, basketball, and sailing.
Cube is an AI company building the digital workforce of the future.
Bosso is a robotics company that specializes in manufacturing machines related to the tending, management, and handling of materials.
Amoeba is an AI-Powered Data Science platform
Big Idea is an AI-powered, blockchain-secured solution designed to help individuals, businesses and monetize their intellectual property.
FabuLingua is a language learning platform based on comprehensible input that empowers educators to teach kids through stories and games.
Strata Platforms is making global connections for local impact.
Light Frame focuses on developing technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and investment and wealth services banks.
Medon is a telemedicine platform that links patients with doctors in a secure digital environment.
Kinisi is a revolutionizing motion health with insights from surgeons who understand the journey to recovery.
Comprehensive business and financial management for creatives
ZTLment offers fintech tools to help businesses and B2B platforms unlock cash flows and save costs.
Faircado is making sustainable consumption easy, attractive and affordable through its AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant
Educato AI is an education technology company that offers and AI driven global platform for exam preparation to underserved students.
Ducky helps customer support teams perform well with AI-driven automation.
Redmenta is an AI-powered content creator for active learning from project work to assessments that helps teachers save time and energy.
Zynix AI is a healthcare intelligence platform built for value-based care organizations.
Gratia's mission is to upskill 1M people from around the globe and to create economic opportunity.
Humii provides actionable insights to companies by tracing customer interactions.
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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