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) | 4 | $4.4M |
| Health Care | 2 | $1.3M |
| B2B | 2 | $319K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $1.1M |
| Finance | 1 | $500K |
| Augmented Reality | 1 | $195K |
| Financial Services | 1 | $1.0M |
| SaaS | 1 | $345K |
| Fitness | 1 | $58K |
| Hunting | 1 | $500K |
Cardagraph predicts product delivery timelines.
Dropmed is an AI-powered medical marketplace featuring easy E-Commerce transition and purchasing from the source
Digital platform providing financial products and services to the unbanked and underserved in SEA.
Neroes improve athletes’ performance and mental wellbeing through advanced brain technologies.
On The Mend is a mobile platform to help people manage their physical rehab.
An AI-driven marketplace and interactive collaboration platform for Packaging Suppliers & Brands
AI coding agent for legacy codebases.
Regline Outdoors is a mobile application that provides hunting laws and regulations.
Salesramp is a software development company that develops sales commission software for businesses and sales staff.
Supermomos facilitates curated in-person communities, and brings together likeminded professionals to make friends and exchange ideas.
Talura is an international supply chain management solution. Shippers can manage and hire with agility international freight quotes
Tanso builds a AI powered co-pilot for CAD, making product design more efficient and accessible.
Waitpal is a developer of a restaurant technology application intended to streamline the takeaway and order fulfillment process.
Waste Labs is an Artificial Intelligence company that helps to optimise waste collection and enable recycling and circular supply chains.
Xenon Ophthalmics is a medical device company developing eye diagnostic equipment.
YoYoBoat is the first peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace designed for boats under 26-feet.
Boon is the leading AI-powered solution for automating and optimizing talent referral communities.
Transforming Healthcare through Radiology AI
DonGamers is a mobile e-sports social platform which is Empowering and Connecting Gamers across the globe.
Enfineo is a fintech company that provides digital financial services for payments, transfers, savings, and asset management.
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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