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 | $2.0M |
| Developer Tools | 3 | $2.9M |
| Health Care | 1 | $535K |
| Computer Vision | 1 | $729K |
| Hospitality | 1 | $690K |
| Apps | 1 | $800K |
| Geospatial | 1 | $400K |
| Confectionery | 1 | $274K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $300K |
| Content Creators | 1 | $1.8M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 9 | $5.9M |
| Denver | 1 | $535K |
| South Jordan | 1 | $640K |
| Valencia | 1 | $729K |
| Leavenworth | 1 | $690K |
| Houston | 1 | $800K |
| Alpharetta | 1 | $400K |
| Salem | 1 | $274K |
| Madrid | 1 | $550K |
| Wilmington | 1 | $300K |
Harmoniously focuses on mental healthcare with evidence-based psychedelic medicines for physical, mental and spiritual health.
Platstack is social media web and mobile platform allowing users to visually save, organize, search, and discover topic-based content.
Kimera develops software solutions to understand visual content, extract its useful data and transform it into accessible information.
The Springs offers recreational facilities that specialize in outdoor spas.
A free peer-to-peer mobile sportsbook. Bet with friends, join sports betting fantasy leagues, track results & more on iOS and Android.
Merlin TPS offers an alternative to GPS that provides location and timing information using positioning and navigation technology.
Chomp Chocolate provides plant-based chocolates designed to replicate milk chocolate without the use of cows.
We are an R&D incorporated company that applies its technological development (investment algorithms, big data solutions) to obtain profits.
Sensible Biotechnologies is developing world's first cell-based platform to unlock the next generation of mRNA medicines.
Rosettic tracks your cloud usage down to the individual API invocation and database row.
Ruby Card provides a financial solution that unifies banking and commerce data for online businesses.
Sameday is a virtual sales programme designed to assist home service providers in remaining available by phone throughout the day.
Automated migrations and upgrades for every codebase
Semantic Finance provides a real-time AI-powered news insights API for unpredicted events that affect the financial markets.
Serial is software to help root cause manufacturing issues in seconds.
Sherloq is a data management platform to collaborate and manage SQL data with help of AI.
Sorted is an automated SaaS management software for startups.
Squack streamlines data by enabling accountants to create and fine-tune automation tools.
Swishjam measures, mitigates, and enhances the performance of websites and applications.
Tailfin helps SaaS companies to maximize revenue with usage-based pricing.
Teclada is a web-based terminal for remote access
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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