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) | 3 | $2.6M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $1.6M |
| Advertising | 1 | $281K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $1.3M |
| E-Commerce | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Consulting | 1 | $265K |
| Content Creators | 1 | $2.0M |
| Consumer Goods | 1 | $250K |
| Health Care | 1 | $250K |
| Financial Services | 1 | $817K |
Blankspace builds the ad network for the agentic web, helping website owners turn every AI visitor into a brand sponsored ad opportunity.
Lorica Energy provides capital-deployment platform to to facilitate investment into distributed renewable-energy infrastructure.
Retellio was created for leaders that are obsessed with their customers.
MyUTI offers home collection test kits and lab tests for urinary tract infections, along with educational resources on UTIs.
ESTHER offers solutions for the fast and traceable distribution of financial aid from organizations to recipients.
Tagg lets content-creators earn crypto for being engaging.
Enspice creates seasonings blended with plant-based vitamins and minerals.
Mobilus Health provides rapid mobile molecular testing solutions to paitents on demand.
Pausing biological time with cryosleep for pets
Guarda provides parametric insurance against extreme weather events, using satellite data to protect farmers and agribusinesses.
Awesome Compliance is a legal-tech startup developing a collaborative AI platform for compliance professionals.
Devramp builds coding tools to improve AI accuracy in complex codebases
Revolutionizing neurology diagnostics and drug discovery with Artificial Intelligence.
IndyGeneUS AI is a genomics company building a digital blockchain-encrypted bio-bank.
PLATFORM THAT AUTOMATES THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSING POSTURAL DEFECTS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES IN CHILDREN
Tap app helps entertainment executives and creatives connect, book, find work, execute deals, and pay others in one place.
Syke Tribe is a Online Coaching Software and a coaching platform
Picture This is the home of amazing photography.
Onoco is the parenting app designed to help organize families through planning, documenting infant care, and tracking their development.
Reuben Oliver is a luxury plant-based knitwear brand, focused on accelerating innovation in the sustainable luxury industry.
Sesame is a food delivery marketplace that empowers independent restaurants to regain control of their off-premise business.
Overland Advantage is a financial services company that provides lending solutions to family- and sponsor-owned middle-market companies.
Provelve is the continuous experimentation and auto-improvement platform for AI agents.
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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