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) | 5 | $3.5M |
| Apps | 2 | $1.3M |
| Analytics | 2 | $500K |
| Aerospace | 1 | $512K |
| Property Management | 1 | $1.2M |
| Software | 1 | $499K |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | $250K |
| Advertising | 1 | $500K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $1.6M |
| Social Media | 1 | $400K |
Kliva is the CRM and data platform for the commercial real estate industry in Europe.
Simplifies API onboarding & consumption with an API Portal that’s purpose-built for API teams to create, secure, market, and monetize APIs.
We help trade businesses run and grow.
Shake smith develops augmented healthy plant-based shakes and diets that triggers a specific health benefit.
Camlist is a mobile app that allows user to buy and sell anything related to pets, pet services, and pet accessories.
Entor is a last-mile delivery software platform that enables companies to embed product enhancements.
Velvet builds AI-powered video editing platform that creates cinematic AI videos and social media advertisements.
Valerdat offers AI and data science solutions for purchase optimization and strategic decision-making.
Licensed To Glow provides beauty and wellness memberships offering salon, spa, massage, facial, and self-care booking services.
Moby Analytics is the AI-first analytics platform for auditors to automate tasks and uncover insights. without coding skills.
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Gametime Hero is an all-in-one platform that simplifies organizing and joining recreational sports and community events.
Twocents helps businesses improve and grow by turning customer feedback into private insights and public praise.
AI wellness platform for dogs, cats, and their pet parents.
Arca provides robotic locker networks for secure deliveries and returns.
Dentite provides AI tools for dental practices to process medical insurance claims and manage billing workflows.
Farm in a Box is a self-contained, often modular, agricultural system designed to provide a complete solution.
Developing next-generation cardiac regenerative medicine, leveraging AI-driven bioprocessing to transform heart failure treatment
Staer AI is a startup developing spatial intelligence software for autonomous mobile robot fleets.
Decent Energy integrates and optimises small scale smart energy assets to minimise the cost and carbon intensity of the energy
AI Marketing Intelligence SaaS: A Unified System for Social & AI Listening, Conversational Intelligence, Review, Content and Ad Analysis
Shuffle Energy (previously Komodo Energy) is a energy flexibility platform focussed specialised on thermal assets.
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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