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) | 12 | $6.0M |
| B2B | 3 | $1.5M |
| Health Care | 1 | $500K |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | $500K |
| Software | 1 | $500K |
| Analytics | 1 | $500K |
| Commercial | 1 | $500K |
| Data Management | 1 | $500K |
| Developer Platform | 1 | $500K |
| Biotechnology | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 9 | $4.5M |
| New York | 6 | $3.0M |
| London | 2 | $1.0M |
| Dover | 1 | $500K |
| Waterford | 1 | $500K |
| New Castle | 1 | $500K |
| Seattle | 1 | $500K |
| San Mateo | 1 | $500K |
| Berkeley | 1 | $500K |
| Austin | 1 | $500K |
Glide streamlines transaction payments on EVM-compatible chains using tokens, with no need for swaps, and simple API integration.
Glaze simplifies shopping experience for women with an AI powered shopping recommendation platform.
Simbie Health is a patient management platform that offers virtual post-discharge navigation and transitions of care management solutions.
ten.dev is a knowledge-sharing platform that helps developers understand modified code and flag potential side effects in the codebase.
Airgoods is a wholesale marketplace for specialty food and beverage stores.
Fragment bridges AI-human collaboration, aiding fintech ops in task management and enhancing automation with human oversight.
Tegon is an artificial intelligence company that offers an open source platform for issue tracking.
FlowiseAI is a UI visual tool that offers component integrations and language translation using LLM Chain with chat prompt templates.
Smobi is an perator of a business marketplace intended to simplify the small-medium business sales process.
VetRec is an AI based clinical notes taking software for for veterinarians.
ProdTrace is an AI based software that manage CAD files, bills, changes, and procurement.
Empower is a software company that offersa developer platform for fine tuned LLMs.
Menza is a data analytics platform that generates interactive dashboards and proactive insights using AI.
Vango AI development platform for improvement of Generative AI visual models
Nanograb is a computational drug discovery company that uses AI to generate the best combination of binders to treat different diseases.
DataShare is a tech company that offers data service APIs that helps to embed customer-facing business intelligence tools.
Cedana is VMWare for GPUs. We enable enterprises to orchestrate and operationalize intelligence precisely, reliably, and efficiently.
Roundtable is an AI tool that helps with survey data and detects bot and frauds to clean them.
Obento Health offers a digital platform for healthcare providers to curate and recommend wellness products.
Pointhound makes it easy for people to earn and redeem their credit card points for free flights.
Slicker streamlines your payment process, increasing conversions and reducing failures with AI-powered insights.
CraftOS is a SAAS company that offers inventory tracking and POS tools for wineries.
Contour is an AI customer support platform for financial institutions
Constructable is an AI knowledge-base for construction teams, enabling easy access to project information and documents.
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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