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) | 9 | $13.5M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $2.0M |
| Energy Management | 1 | $733K |
| Cyber Security | 1 | $2.5M |
| Software | 1 | $2.5M |
| Health Diagnostics | 1 | $1.2M |
| Advertising | 1 | $500K |
| Consulting | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Business Intelligence | 1 | $103K |
| Financial Services | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 2 | $4.7M |
| Dublin | 2 | $3.1M |
| Caen | 1 | $1.6M |
| Mondragón | 1 | $733K |
| Centennial | 1 | $1.5M |
| New York | 1 | $2.5M |
| Helsinki | 1 | $1.2M |
| Los Angeles | 1 | $1.9M |
| Santa Monica | 1 | $1.3M |
| Columbus | 1 | $5.3M |
Enough is an electronics tech company that designs and develops AI wearable badges for personal safety.
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HyprView is an IT company that provides data storage, data processing, and multimodal imaging platform solutions.
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Soxton is an AI-powered legal tool developed for founders at their initial phases
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Quickture is an AI editing tool for video editors, offering edits and integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer.
Favorited is an interactive live-streaming platform empowering creators to engage audiences and earn.
Kaya Pay is a developer of a materials procurement and financing platform intended for construction projects.
ALFI is an AI powered platform using computer vision to deliver real time audience-based digital advertising.
AI-Agents for Compliance, Procurement, Finance and Security.
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Spherecast is Software Development firm supporting multi channel E commerce businesses by Solving out of stock and overstock problems.
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Sellent provides sales force solutions for commercial performance and decision-making.
Conversational AI products & integration services
ACR Group is a technology company focusing on innovation in satellite communications and services, navigation, and timing.
Intch is a professional networking app designed to connect users with potential clients, co-founders, investors, and mentors.
Indie game dev studio that creates innovative gaming experiences through unique genre combinations, new narratives, and art styles.
Alterscope provides the risk infrastructure for web3.
Run To Wear is an online platform where people can buy clothes without paying money by uploading on website the garments they don't use.
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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