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 |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 3 | $1.9M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $5.7M |
| Social Network | 2 | $2.5M |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $2.5M |
| Apps | 2 | $3.0M |
| Advertising | 2 | $594K |
| Business Development | 1 | $400K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $271K |
| Fitness | 1 | $364K |
| B2B | 1 | $249K |
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Realfin is the London-based global leader in real assets data & intelligence with the world's largest real assets data platform, RealfinX.
SkillFactory is a data science education startup.
Sportidia develops a social networking platform that connects people through sports, fitness, and active lifestyle activities.
Symbiose Technologies is a communications company that offers AI-powered audio and messaging platform.
Twisp helps fintech companies scale their financial data infrastructure.
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Qure.Finance is a revolutionary investment platform offering social-media style trading insights by global finfluencers to young investors.
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Dentulu is a teledentistry platform offering virtual dental consultations, AI diagnostics, and at-home oral health services.
3GO is a personalized security service that protects members from fraud, helping them maintain their online safety.
Dashboa offers artificial intelligence-based data analysis software.
3bears.ai is a cutting-edge firm that specializes in AI-driven behavioral analytics.
Attenex offers consumer startups DIY research, guided by experts. A Techstars backed company.
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Betips is a social betting site created especially for wagering on sports predictions.
BrainTribes is an AI-driven information platform that provides organizations with information, data, and analytics at any given moment.
Breath Hub is the world's first and only personalized, all inclusive breathwork app.
Automated valuation and loan decisioning technology for commercial mortgage
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 analytics companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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