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) | 7 | $7.4M |
| Biotechnology | 3 | $572K |
| E-Commerce | 2 | $1.6M |
| Compliance | 1 | $1.7M |
| Financial Services | 1 | $742K |
| Digital Marketing | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $1.0M |
| Agriculture | 1 | $374K |
| Computer Vision | 1 | $500K |
| Building Material | 1 | $1.2M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 4 | $2.5M |
| New York | 2 | $3.5M |
| Birkirkara | 1 | $742K |
| Bentonville | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Toronto | 1 | $1.0M |
| São José Dos Campos | 1 | $374K |
| Palo Alto | 1 | $1.0M |
| Zürich | 1 | $1.5M |
| Paris | 1 | $1.4M |
| Córdoba | 1 | $250K |
Payroll and recruitment platform helping the construction industry hire and retain talented site teams.
Fyorin is a payments and financial operations platform enabling businesses to operate more efficiently.
Rejoicy helps local businesses get discovered by offering digital storefronts and an online marketplace for consumers to shop local, online.
PromptShop helps users and enterprises go from experiments to production faster by standardizing AI packaging and sharing.
Moodypines is a voice AI agency providing talent, datasets, and services for AI voice technology projects.
Wealor develops AI software for wealth managers that centralizes client data and automates advisory operations.
Cyan Agroanalytics is a weather monitoring and forecasting platform.
World’s first AI-native video platform for enterprises. Automates video creation, editing, distribution & intelligent search.
Digipals builds an AI-native group chat app that helps to hang out with friends
Efference provides 3D vision systems that use AI and imaging technology to enable robotic perception and navigation.
Motley helps customer service teams accelerate the generation of QBRs and data-driven communications with AI.
Sandy Health offers an AI platform for healthcare management workflow across care, operations, and revenue.
Pearl is an AI-powered “System of Action” for revenue team, and focus on winning actions rather than just managing tools.
PILL.AR is a biotechnology company that offers personalised medication for people.
Material index offers pre-demolition checks and secondary material sourcing via our own digital platform.
TGS Tech specializes remote collaborative game engines, integrating server, networking, and AI for industry solutions
3thix is a monetization platform that utilizes decentralization to build a compliant ads model for gaming and the web.
Setzzy is an innovative startup specializing in Shopify and Shopify Plus platforms.
Tapp Finance provides tools to enable customers to sell call options on stocks they currently own.
Dreamfarm provides plant based products.
Stayify is On a mission to re-define how travel operators do ecommerce.
TheraB Medical is a medical device company that promotes holistic treatment for infant jaundice.
VUS Diagnostics is a company that understand the functional impact of gene variants in genetic disease including cancers.
Cloud based management platform that provides real time visibility on the status of critical aircraft safety and security cabin equipment
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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