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 |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 2 | $2.0M |
| Generative AI | 2 | $5.2M |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $2.6M |
| Financial Services | 2 | $270K |
| Apps | 2 | $1.4M |
| Beauty | 2 | $1.8M |
| EdTech | 1 | $200K |
| E-Commerce | 1 | $395K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $1.4M |
| Family | 1 | $2.6M |
Brite provides a curriculum, tools, and resources designed to empower communities to teach kids to code.
QuikReturn is a reverse logistics startup serving e-commerce brands and their customers in New York City.
ROADIA is a potsdam based company that develops scalable road safety sensors
Car rental marketplace + revenue agent for rental companies
Fesutibaru provides SaaS planning and pitching software for managing literary festival operations and logistics.
A live personal finance platform that brings clarity, context, and confidence to every financial decision.
Innovating at the intersection of AI and industrial automation.
Hall helps companies understand how they appear across AI platforms, and track how these conversations translate to business outcomes.
Novee AI focused on automating the underwriting process for commercial and specialty insurance.
SaaS, PropTech, Property Management, Real Estate Investing, AI, Machine Learning
The Tokenised Cloud - Sustainable, Decentralised
KARMEQ is a US-based investing platform uniquely focused on wealth transfer and social impact.
Scapin' is the the next generations' social communications platform.
Online sales engine for Experiences; SaaS
Thematic investing platform for retail investors
Groubook is a venue discovery and booking platform that allows users to explore, book & earn rewards from nights out!
Survey smarter. Let AI workflows do the heavy lifting while you get rich insights.
Selfmade offers an emotional wellbeing brand created with mental health experts.
Qoves operates in the field of biotechnologies applied to facial aesthetics.
We are a Finnish startup that aims to keep personnel at distance when operating in hazardous environments by deploying intelligent robots.
SuperFi is a feature-rich personal finance app that helps users track bills, manage budgets, and earn rewards for paying on time.
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 analytics companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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