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 | $4.8M |
| Analytics | 2 | $500K |
| Clean Energy | 1 | $282K |
| Agriculture | 1 | $362K |
| SaaS | 1 | $350K |
| Beauty | 1 | $1.7M |
| Information Technology | 1 | $250K |
| B2C | 1 | $3.0M |
| FinTech | 1 | $500K |
| B2B | 1 | $600K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2 | $2.7M |
| London | 2 | $2.2M |
| Cambridge | 1 | $282K |
| Buffalo | 1 | $750K |
| Netherlands | 1 | $362K |
| Minneapolis | 1 | $350K |
| Newark | 1 | $500K |
| Paris | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Faenza | 1 | $692K |
| Raleigh | 1 | Undisclosed |
Decent Energy integrates and optimises small scale smart energy assets to minimise the cost and carbon intensity of the energy
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Gametime Hero is an all-in-one platform that simplifies organizing and joining recreational sports and community events.
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Moby Analytics is the AI-first analytics platform for auditors to automate tasks and uncover insights. without coding skills.
Totally Innovation is a software company developing artificial intelligence based music management platform and creates license-free music.
CivicReach is a voice AI platform that offers phone-based resident customer service for government officials.
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MSafe is a smart workflow-based EHS app, using data from machine vision AI, ML & IoT to monitor, analyze & resolve health & safety issues
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Teamsharq allows users to run any software on a virtual desktop, and where AI can take control of the desktop, behaving like a live mentor.
Environmentally regenerative travel platform/website
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Pomarium equips advisors and investment management platforms with tailored investment portfolios for their clients.
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MesencHyal-T is a biotechnology company that develops cellular medical therapies for the treatment of tissue regeneration.
Narrative Banking is a pioneer in banking hyper-personalisation, with an emphasis on AI-powered financial narrative to help banks grow.
NUMARQE is the all-in-one multicurrency platform to draw and utilise credit across all corporate payments.
Marketplace for couples, friends, and families to discover, book, and organize private group activities.
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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