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) | 14 | $8.8M |
| Apps | 2 | $1.0M |
| Health Care | 2 | $1.0M |
| Analytics | 2 | $1.0M |
| B2B | 2 | $1.0M |
| Database | 1 | $500K |
| Business Development | 1 | $500K |
| Finance | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 13 | $7.2M |
| New York | 6 | $3.0M |
| Zurich | 1 | $500K |
| Lafayette | 1 | $500K |
| White Rock | 1 | $500K |
| Bayreuth | 1 | $1.6M |
| Boston | 1 | $500K |
| Acton | 1 | $500K |
Orama is a software development company that provides users and consumers with answers to hybrid search queries.
Tremor is an UI toolkit and react components to build charts and dashboards.
Remy Security uses AI to resolve security and privacy reviews with less effort.
Trainy produces open-source tools to accelerate AI training, helping developers create models more quickly.
Baserun is a developer of a testing platform that helps developers ship large language models (LLMs) apps.
Axflow is a software company that develops an end-to-end framework intended to build artificial intelligence applications.
Zelos Cloud is a cloud platform that allows engineers to develop and test their code.
Autotab is a desktop app that trains AI to automate repetitive and complex tasks after just one demonstration.
LifestyleRX delivers insurance-covered virtual care for Type 2 Diabetes reversal.
Lifelike is a platform where user can created AI character and talk with them using their voice.
Quill AI is an automation software tool for financial analysts and investment firms.
Apoxy develops proxy platform for improving the security and usability of application programming interface and services.
Raz is an iMessage native sales platform to text prospects and nurture leads.
Kite develops video making software that allows users to turn screen recordings into marketing videos based on artificial intelligence.
Inlet provides operations work based development platform that helps to create efficient automation for your business.
The hearing aid for incontinence.
Inari is an AI based tool that sort feedback and research to find insights on revenue generating product and opportunities.
Maven Bio's AI-driven platform accelerates biopharma deal analysis, enhancing M&A intelligence and strategic decision-making.
Humanlike uses human-like AI to deal the cashflow management processes more efficiently and accurately.
Roundtable is an AI tool that helps with survey data and detects bot and frauds to clean them.
The Kubernetes Native Observability Platform
Nectar is a climate intelligence platform that reduces environmental impact using data analytics, machine learning and AI.
Health Harbor is a healthcare data platform designed to automate billing healthcare practices and RCM.
Obento Health offers a digital platform for healthcare providers to curate and recommend wellness products.
Glide streamlines transaction payments on EVM-compatible chains using tokens, with no need for swaps, and simple API integration.
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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