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 | $17.5M |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | $1.2M |
| Machinery Manufacturing | 1 | $2.1M |
| Fertility | 1 | $4.7M |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | $500K |
| Information Services | 1 | $1.0M |
| Fashion | 1 | $145K |
| Cyber Security | 1 | $500K |
| Ad Targeting | 1 | $500K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $138K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 3 | $7.5M |
| Zürich | 2 | $4.7M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $2.8M |
| London | 2 | $1.8M |
| Leeds | 1 | $4.7M |
| Berkeley | 1 | $500K |
| Bilbao | 1 | $2.5M |
| Santa Cruz De La Sierra | 1 | $800K |
| Dover | 1 | $500K |
| Los Angeles | 1 | $500K |
Ionic wind technologies revolutionize the way airflow is generated, with an internationally patented concept.
IVFmicro is a Microfluidic systems for delivering fertility treatment, and optimize methods for Assisted Reproduction Technologies.
Soverli is a cybersecurity technology firm that provides advanced protection technologies for smartphones.
Finiti offers a platform for digital contracting, document automation, and legal workflow management.
Hardware Accelerated Rack Scale AI Agent Runtime
Heuristik is a software solution that helps healthcare entities identify and manage patients.
Aithon is a Sales Intelligence Platform
Xeris delivers AI-XDR to detect, investigate, and stop threats across cloud, endpoint, and identity systems.
tuGerente is the operating system for emerging retailers in Latin America, connecting operations and finance.
Pegasi builds self-improving AI agents for financial institutions
SaaS AI-driven Virtual Interview Platform
Redefining the way people engage with lifetime memories
We are the first luxury product marketplace for Latin America.
LinkkoAds is a Web 3 advertising platform leveraging on-chain analytics to offer ultra precise targeting.
Keetro Labs is a software company that develops an end-to-end framework intended to build artificial intelligence applications.
Anima is a gaming company that builds AI-based interactive characters and virtual world experiences.
SiWeGO is a mobile app that connects those who want to ship goods and those who are willing to transport them.
ELEMENTARYb's sherloc platform provides time-critical intelligence for SMEs trading in a globalised economy.
MOXSEA is a white-label SaaS platform designed specifically for boat clubs and boat-sharing businesses.
Practice high-stakes workplace conversations using multimodal AI
July is a platform that automates brand deals.
Xena is an AI-powered ecommerce growth platform.
AI-enabled platform helping SMBs execute and surprise their customers by interoperating all their critical areas and resources in one place.
The Control Layer for Agentic Automation. Using neurological AI to ensure rule-based compliance in regulated industries.
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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