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 9,222 recently funded pre-seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 3 | $3.3M |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $1.9M |
| B2B | 2 | $1.7M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $739K |
| Sporting Goods | 1 | $761K |
| Audio | 1 | $310K |
| Apps | 1 | $300K |
| Advertising | 1 | $500K |
| Direct Sales | 1 | $1.3M |
| Health Care | 1 | $1.5M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 4 | $3.9M |
| San Francisco | 3 | $1.4M |
| Miami | 2 | $5.0M |
| Wicklow | 1 | $761K |
| Toronto | 1 | $300K |
| Espoo | 1 | $310K |
| Atlanta | 1 | $855K |
| Frederiksberg | 1 | $1.8M |
| Vancouver | 1 | $1.5M |
| Watertown | 1 | $2.3M |
Sports Impact Technologies provides real-time impact detection for safer sports.
Twenty Ninety Creative is a game design studio.
Aani provides solutions that focus on audio digitalization.
Copa Fantasy is a football application that allows users to connect with sports leagues.
Absurd is an Artificial Intelligence company that makes AI brand and performance ads at scale creating production videos in 72 hours.
Grand PMS is an all-in-one property management system powered by AI, designed specifically for the hospitality industry.
Trigify helps to find the right lead by leveraging and automating the sales triggers.
UVX is a deeptech company that reduces infections without changing human behavior.
Elastro is a venture-backed neurotechnology startup
AI enhanced nuclear fusion startup
Emotional Wellness Technology Company
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Drip is a retail apparel and fashion company that provides streetwear clothing and accessories.
Quiron performs remote monitoring of protection that can devastate forests anywhere on the planet.
Compensa is a SaaS platform which helps companies fight climate change by measuring and offsetting their carbon emissions
SaaS that helps hospitality entrepreneurs manage and streamline their business’ internal acquisitions. Marketplace with +8000 products.
Uspacy is a single digital workspace that offers internal communications, people operations, collaboration, tasks and CRM.
AuraChat.Ai is the award-winning AI Platform for Competitive Intelligence + Enterprise Marketing & Sales Automation.
Gran Lab focuses on pioneering steroid-free treatments to address chronic skin problems.
AI-powered EHR redefining the future of behavioral therapy
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 9,222 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 9,222 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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