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 |
| Analytics | 3 | $1.5M |
| Developer Tools | 2 | $1.0M |
| Apps | 2 | $1.0M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.0M |
| Credit | 1 | $500K |
| DevOps | 1 | $500K |
| Cloud Data Services | 1 | $500K |
| EdTech | 1 | $400K |
| CRM | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 11 | $6.7M |
| New York | 5 | $2.5M |
| Tel Aviv-yafo | 1 | $500K |
| Haifa | 1 | $500K |
| Singapore | 1 | $400K |
| Portland | 1 | $500K |
| Manchester | 1 | $500K |
| Sunnyvale | 1 | $500K |
| Temecula | 1 | $500K |
| Lindon | 1 | $500K |
Trigo is a rental and housing data platform that improves credit outcomes and democratizes financial products for the under-banked.
Gluetrail is a revenue intelligence platform that provides revenue planning for B2B companies.
KoalaOps is a platform for building microservices on Kubernetes.
Parabolic is a developer of AI-based assistant for customer support.
Tailorr helps SaaS companies find their self-serve pricing and packaging faster, without the engineering effort.
moonrepo is an open-source build tool for monorepos and large codebases.
Teclada is a web-based terminal for remote access
FlexWash Technologies is a car wash operating system that provides POS, CRM, SMS marketing, and proactive maintenance services.
Squack streamlines data by enabling accountants to create and fine-tune automation tools.
Plutis provides semantic search as a service tool.
Viddy enables e-commerce brands to increase conversion rates and engagement by adding shoppable and interactive video experiences.
Feather allows you to discover, analyze, and identify investment opportunities.
Fairway Health provides AI-powered solutions for health insurers to manage the prior authorization process.
Rainmaker is a fully self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet.
Fabius analyzes customer calls with AI to help sales leaders improve their reps' performance.
Storyboarder is a tool and platform that enables one to create, buy, and sell webcomics.
Sameday is a virtual sales programme designed to assist home service providers in remaining available by phone throughout the day.
Electric Air is a technology enabled contractor that provides electric heating and cooling pumps and their installation services.
Haven is the AI Agent platform for property management.
EdgeBit provides real-time supply chain security that eliminates noise for your team.
Tailfin helps SaaS companies to maximize revenue with usage-based pricing.
Berry's AI CSM helps SaaS companies train/onboard customers at scale
Drift Bio develops software to help life sciences companies analyze their data.
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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