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) | 7 | $9.9M |
| Analytics | 2 | $894K |
| Energy | 2 | $4.3M |
| Industrial Automation | 1 | $2.0M |
| AgTech | 1 | $300K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $2.5M |
| Clean Energy | 1 | $6.0M |
| Commercial | 1 | $465K |
| Developer APIs | 1 | $120K |
| Agriculture | 1 | $1.2M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $3.4M |
| Copenhagen | 2 | $10.7M |
| Chicago | 2 | $2.5M |
| München | 1 | $2.3M |
| Brussels | 1 | $2.0M |
| Seattle | 1 | $2.5M |
| Covent Garden | 1 | $300K |
| New York | 1 | $2.5M |
| Southborough | 1 | $6.0M |
| Long Beach | 1 | $3.1M |
Reformer Club creates beautifully designed, premium studios dedicated to dynamic Reformer Pilates and expert personal training.
Climingo provides a vendor-neutral SaaS platform to benchmark and select weather and climate data providers.
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Gondor is a DeFi startup that builds tools to make prediction markets more efficient.
os.energy is a digital platform building the "operating system" and digital backbone for the new energy sector.
Teragen Energy develops regenerative fuel cell systems that provide both power generation and energy storage.
Maglut Heavy Industries focused on building a sovereign mineral processing engine, starting with rare earths.
Social Cooling through products like TerraBreeze seeks to modernize air conditioning by offering environmentally conscious solutions.
Zenline AI provides retail assortment optimization using AI-powered product data and insights.
Halo AI is a B2B SaaS platform that uses automation and analytics to streamline operations, cut costs, and enhance efficiency.
Chimoney is a digital asset cloud platform.
E-TERRY builds an autonomous agricultural robot, designed to advance sustainable agriculture on a large scale through automation and AI.
Roostoo is an interactive platform where humans and AI agents engage in mock trading competitions
XHunt is an AI-powered creator intelligence platform designed to measure influence and monetize content on social networks.
Repodo is an AI-native authorised audit firm.
AI-native platform providing emotional and practical support for loss, transforming the insurance industry.
Itoflow is an AI-native platform providing institutional-grade, automated quantitative research and portfolio management.
Argentum AI operates a decentralized marketplace connecting enterprises with global GPU compute capacity for AI workloads.
AI travel tech automating sales, booking, payments and post-ticketing for travel agencies, redefining airline distribution in LATAM
Somos is a digital health platform and personal wellness app that helps consolidate and track the body’s health data in one place.
Aglide offers seamless access management and single sign-on for all apps, eliminating the need for SAML support.
Mobile Apps, Marketplace, E-Commerce, Consumer Marketplace
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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