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) | 6 | $2.6M |
| Health Care | 2 | $300K |
| Finance | 2 | $1.2M |
| Analytics | 2 | $365K |
| Location Based Services | 1 | $550K |
| Machinery Manufacturing | 1 | $250K |
| Casino | 1 | $1.3M |
| Marketing Automation | 1 | $309K |
| Virtual Assistant | 1 | $300K |
| Computer | 1 | $1.5M |
Knoow is a software application that provides real-time location-based tracking capabilities.
Pearl provides AI-powered professional services software that connects users with expert professionals and supports service workflows.
Caidera automates marketing and communication processes in pharma, medtech, and healthcare.
Jiro is a financial services company that offers business loans.
Vessl Prosthetics is a prosthetics firm that is driven by the idea of empowering amputees and their champions to overcome challenges.
ambient works is an IoT company developing air quality trackers and monitoring devices that can be operated via an app built with AI.
101RTP is creating innovative solutions in iGaming analytics.
Using AI on existing CCTV, HawkVision AI helps enterprises detect unsafe acts, PPE gaps & near misses—reducing risk and saving lives.
Revi revolutionizes WhatsApp Marketing with AI and turns conversations into results.
Samu.ai is a virtual assistant, focused on sales.
Fetcch is payments and digital rewards network.
Kelvin Green is the operating system for heat suppliers' green transformation.
LIA is an AI platform that streamlines B2B credit management and reduces payment delays.
MyBeatCoach is the revolutionary 360-degree coaching and training solution for organization's workforce.
Optimizer AI creates AI technology to swiftly and simply generate resources required for game and content development.
AI-powered procurement for construction, streamlining sourcing and ensuring best prices.
A financial deep tech startup that extracts trading trends and market timing to provide impactful B2B solutions.
Zayn is a developer of stablecoin staking platform intended for range returns on BSC.
Skylyte provides burnout awareness and offers burnout training to leaders and their employees.
VirgilHR is a SaaS solution that provides HR professionals with instant employment and labor law guidance.
Artifact is a developer of a qualitative data insights platform used to understand customer needs.
Drone Ai Services is technology company that collects, analyses and provides data to various industries with the use of drone technology.
Built by Oura and Polar alumni, Nucu is a contactless sleep tracking platform giving children's and teens' sleep a voice.
Payroll and recruitment platform helping the construction industry hire and retain talented site teams.
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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