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) | 21 | $10.0M |
| Business Development | 1 | $1.4M |
| Accounting | 1 | $500K |
| Biomass Energy | 1 | $267K |
| Aerospace | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 14 | $6.5M |
| Dover | 3 | $1.5M |
| Florence | 1 | $1.4M |
| Chicago | 1 | $500K |
| Cambridge | 1 | $500K |
| Lancaster | 1 | $267K |
| Palo Alto | 1 | $500K |
| Stockholm | 1 | $500K |
| El Segundo | 1 | $500K |
| New York | 1 | $500K |
LogosGuard is an platform that turns AI policies into executable controls and continuously monitors systems for compliance and risk.
Compyle develops an AI coding agent that collaborates with engineers by requesting input before generating or modifying code.
Mantle automates back-office tasks by connecting to CRMs, email, payments, and analytics through prompt-based agents.
Automax AI builds AI assistants for real-estate appraisers, with an Appraisal Copilot for data prep, comps, and report drafting.
Item is an AI CRM that automatically captures customer context from connected tools and runs workflows through AI assistants.
AutoAce is an AI voice assistant for car dealerships that answers calls, books service, and keeps customers off hold
Clicks is an AI platform that automates back-office tasks like CRM updates, report generation, and data entry for businesses.
Bear helps businesses track and improve their visibility on AI search platforms by monitoring mentions, competitors, and optimizing content.
Mod AI develops AI agents that automate accounts payable tasks like invoice processing, fraud detection, and ERP synchronization.
Liablix is an AI-based platform that automates road accident analysis.
Goldbridge offers banking software that manages FDIC-insured accounts and property-level ledgers for real estate operators.
Koyal is an artificial intelligence platform that transforms audio into visually compelling and personalized videos.
Anto Biosciences is an AI driven biotech developing gut microbiome computable to predict and optimize drug efficacy.
Fernstone offers an insurance risk management platform that handles policy management, claim tracking, COI issuance, and alerts.
Mixy is the developer of a mobile music application that allows users to blend vocals and beats from their music libraries.
Agentic Fabriq provides a platform for connecting AI agents with tools and each other, offering security and orchestration features.
Soren AI is an artificial Intelligence firm that builds autonomous agents to replace human engineers on manual AI evaluation tasks.
Expected Parrot offers tools to design, test, and simulate agents for surveys and research.
ADTechOptima boosts biomass power by increasing biogas yield, restoring failed AD plants, and enabling high-volume waste processing.
Spatial AI is an Ai driven company that offers data infrastructure robots.
Specific is an AI driven DevOps company that offers users a platform to build and deploy backend without codes.
Clad Labs is the developer of a coding environment designed to integrate entertainment and productivity with AI.
Icarus is a technology company developing solar-powered drones capable of capturing high-resolution imagery at scale.
Fixpoint offers a platform to manage annotators and automate data processes for AI model training through APIs.
Casey automates the preparation and submission of commercial insurance proposals by ingesting client 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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