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) | 6 | $3.2M |
| Consulting | 3 | $2.5M |
| Software | 1 | $1.2M |
| Bitcoin | 1 | $300K |
| Construction | 1 | $618K |
| Auto Insurance | 1 | $604K |
| Audio | 1 | $250K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $250K |
| Health Care | 1 | $2.0M |
| Internet | 1 | $1.0M |
A system to support the remote recruitment process using computer vision.
HealthInRealTime is a real time health, fitness, monitoring and medical intervention technology platform.
MergeStat enables open-source, operational analytics for software engineering teams.
Your AI thought partner to learn and think more effectively from online content. Available on mobile (iOS) and desktop.
Comparables.ai provides an AI-augmented company analysis platform for professionals to find and compare companies quickly and intelligently
A predictive software company on the mission to eliminate food waste.
Zodium is a play-to-earn gaming project based on NFTs, created by the former co-founder of Line Friends.
Kuarpay's mobile payment technologies and business development and Barcode technologies.
Rockease is a B2B marketplace for construction materials.
RX Delivered Now is an automating pharmacy logistics and communications company.
Meaning is a software company that provides advanced machine learning services for communication over digital platforms.
Northwind is a Tele-dermatology platform for specialised skincare offering customized medical treatments online.
Web and mobile based platform that provides farms and producers with the on-demand labor they need.
100XBIO develops single-cell and spatial biology technologies enabling high-resolution cellular analysis for research and drug discovery.
Redapto helps customer support teams improve performance using QA, simulations, and feedback to boost satisfaction and sales.
Ease Vertical AI has built EaseGTM, the Cognitive Go-To-Market (GTM) Layer for founders and growth leaders at Small & Medium B2B businesses.
Building the world's shopping persona!
Tensora is a blockchain-focused technology company operating within the Bittensor ecosystem
CoachIQ is a company that converts your coaching into a digital asset.
Aquaint offers digital solutions for daily checklists, logs, spreedsheets, and related documentation.
SkoneLabs monitors fresh food and combats food loss and wastage in the fresh food industry by leveraging IoT and AI.
The AI Powered Digital Platform to Democratize Wealth Management for Non-Resident Indians globally
BitFlow Finance offers bitcoines to trade while utilizing the capital by eliminating middlemen and intermediaries.
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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