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 | $6.6M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $1.0M |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | $1.0M |
| Data Integration | 1 | $1.8M |
| Consumer Software | 1 | $250K |
| B2B | 1 | $500K |
| Financial Services | 1 | $500K |
| Developer Tools | 1 | $500K |
| Health Care | 1 | $500K |
| Analytics | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 17 | $9.8M |
| New York | 2 | $1.0M |
| George Town | 2 | $1.0M |
| Tampa | 1 | $120K |
| Milpitas | 1 | $250K |
| Providence | 1 | $500K |
| Chicago | 1 | $500K |
0xPass develops a wallet connector with inbuilt support for authentication, identity management, and account abstraction.
Insure AI is a Claims intelligence platform for insurance
Classified marketplace for corporate employees
GitCafe provides a collaborative code hosting and review platform with stacked pull requests, GitHub synchronization, and a developer CLI.
Mosaic is a platform that brings AI coding sessions into one place, helping developers manage and work across coding agents.
Financial Datasets is a stock market platform that provides structured financial and market data for AI agents, and quantitative research.
Verdant is an AI infrastructure and workflow automation platform for local government permitting and planning.
Verdant is an AI infrastructure and workflow automation platform for local government permitting and planning.
Bizmark is an AI platform that automates and optimizes enterprise decisions across procurement, production, labor, and sales.
Bizmark is an AI platform that automates and optimizes enterprise decisions across procurement, production, labor, and sales.
Gutgutgoose builds personalized probiotics using microbiome sequencing, computational gut modeling, and made to order formulations.
Gutgutgoose builds personalized probiotics using microbiome sequencing, computational gut modeling, and made to order formulations.
Chromie is an AI system for government contracting that helps contractors find, qualify, and pursue federal and SLED opportunities.
tash is an investment platform that offers professionally managed indices and fractional shares of iconic trading cards.
Caution provides a verifiable confidential compute platform that delivers cryptographic proof for secure and trusted workload execution.
Caution provides a verifiable confidential compute platform that delivers cryptographic proof for secure and trusted workload execution.
Waddle Labs builds LLM agents and generalist software infrastructure designed for real-time robotics control and learning.
Codag cuts coding-agent costs by optimizing large tool outputs like logs and test results so agents consume fewer tokens.
Floracene is a Healthcare technology platform streamlining medical operations and workflows through AI-powered tools.
Wondering is an AI learning platform that helps users master any topic through personalized, visuals, podcasts, and interactive exercises.
Realpact is an AI-powered real estate platform that automates transactions, contracts, workflows, and compliance.
Tracer is an AI platform that helps companies use the right AI model for each task by combining models, company context, and tools.
Atlia provides AI-native short-term rental management services for property owners.
Insurf provides AI-based tools for managing prior authorizations, denial appeals, and health plan cost modeling.
Luca IQ is a modern tax software platform for CPA firms, covering client intake, tax preparation, review, and e-filing.
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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