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) | 2 | $1.8M |
| Analytics | 2 | $1.8M |
| EdTech | 2 | $250K |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | $1.3M |
| Event Management | 1 | $500K |
| Commercial Real Estate | 1 | $1.1M |
| Pet | 1 | $250K |
| Beauty | 1 | $1.3M |
| AgTech | 1 | $430K |
| Health Care | 1 | $1.3M |
Weven is a vertical SaaS for event venues that streamlines operations and allows hosts to offer personalized online planning portals.
Loantuitive is a Commercial Real Estate debt marketplace.
Connecting dog owners to find friends, playdates and pair their dogs. IOS and google play.
Very Good Light is a skincare publication that promotes a more inclusive definition of beauty.
Vertigo Technologies provides microwave and mm-wave test and measurement solutions for the market.
Healthcare Technology, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Verras is a healthcare analytical firm that provides transparent data analytics for healthcare.
RivalSense uses AI to monitor competitors, track market changes, and provide insights on pricing, products, and campaigns.
Fibra, the world's smartest underwear, provides every woman with real-time information, clarity, and control over her reproductive health.
Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances.
Trendies is a provider of the Base Ecosystem Token Launch Platform, which is primarily designed for token holders.
4Pets Care is the first 360 virtual assistant for pets, centralizing all necessary services and products in a single application.
Create empowered special education students through reimagining the IEP.
AleFi allows nascent investors to manage multiple investing accounts
InHaus.ai is an IT company specializing in fashion brands to create product videos.
The snack bar that the US Warfighter needs and that the American consumer has been waiting for.
Avocadomilk is a food processing company that provides avacado milk as an alternative vegan milk.
Lola Health offers health coverage policies and solutions for businesses, groups, and organizations.
HolidayHero is a software platform for hotels, property managers, and hosts looking to exceed guest expectations.
Derisk is a crypto custody infra and leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC) cryptography.
White Exchange develops and operates an online tool that manages digital art.
Scholarships360 is a platform connecting students to scholarships, financial aid resources, and education pathways.
Pacer Technology provides recyclable and cost-efficient lightweight solutions for the automotive, aerospace, and defense sectors.
Pullulo builds food systems that combine circular processes with scalable production models.
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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