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 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI | 2 | $1.9M |
| Apps | 2 | $2.8M |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $17.0M |
| Basketball | 1 | $750K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $400K |
| Banking | 1 | Undisclosed |
| SaaS | 1 | $1.3M |
| Analytics | 1 | $1.4M |
| Health Care | 1 | $255K |
| Agriculture | 1 | $920K |
Fairly is a rental management platform that emphasizes individualized care and a community-driven approach to service
Zephyr helps sports teams analyze game video. The engine watches the video of a game and automatically finds any statistic/film.
A startup dedicated to revolutionizing security and IT software through cutting-edge AI technology.
Redcurry is a Real estate-backed digital currency platform enabling inflation-resistant savings, payments, and yield-generating investments.
Making decentralised energy easy and beneficial for everyone
Batech is a B2B SaaS that offers company security and productivity with AI-VISION using client's video surveillance.
Abide acquires, grows and builds revenue tech (sales & marketing) SaaS products.
Graff Golf enables golfers to view detailed analytics of their golf swing and improve using custom practice programs.
Medibanx provides longitudinal clinical data with patients’ consent for faster drug development.
Farm is a platform for investing in agricultural land.
Redesigning the online equestrian market one stride at a time. Cross-platform marketplace – web, iOS & Android.
Karmacist is involved in the making of wellness supplements and products through the science of Nutrigenomics.
CheckForPet supports dog and cat owners in finding the right food.
Moon Star Games engages in the development of games.
LaunchLemonade is a zesty platform for building, sharing, and monetizing AI agents that actually convert prospects into revenue.
Stilla is an AI agent that quietly keeps track of everything — what was said, what needs doing, and what’s already in motion.
Multiplo Capital recreates standard financial services to help you make the most of your assets.
GeneralMind is an AI company that reduces repetitive supply-chain operations by automating manual steps in email and excel.
Powerful investing, simplified. Run your portfolio like a hedge-fund.
Robin Health is focused on prevention and digital health management.
Digitizing every space into a living 3D revenue engine
Proactive CX for E-commerce. Text post-delivery to provide support, preempt returns, and improve retention.
Alteva develops innovative, ultra-lightweight and high-performance battery cells for the decarbonisation.
Astral is an AI marketer that interacts with the browser like a human to automate marketing workflows.
Clotsy Brand is a sustainable and vegan fashion startup.
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 agentic ai companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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