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) | 5 | $13.5M |
| Customer Service | 1 | $500K |
| Organic Food | 1 | $1.4M |
| Analytics | 1 | $4.1M |
| Commercial Insurance | 1 | $4.5M |
| Biotechnology | 1 | $781K |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | $530K |
| AgTech | 1 | $2.5M |
| Software | 1 | $50K |
| Bitcoin | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 4 | $14.1M |
| Los Angeles | 2 | $514K |
| Miami | 1 | $500K |
| Tórtola | 1 | $5.0M |
| Umraniye | 1 | $1.4M |
| Seattle | 1 | $4.1M |
| New Glasgow | 1 | $781K |
| Rockville | 1 | $530K |
| Helsinki | 1 | $500K |
| Waltham | 1 | $2.5M |
Valet delivers exceptional food and drink. Anywhere.
Empowering the AI revolution with gamified, high-quality and ethically sourced data
The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value.
AI that reviews creative at scale - surfacing gaps hurting performance or creating risk, and helping fix them pre-launch.
Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured.
Commercial Insurance Broker built for modern businesses. Powered by a team of experts and world-class AI.
Elle, MD Biotechnologies is focused on providing better quailty of life.
Olto crafts personalized live demos by overlaying AI-generated, prospect-relevant data on top of your existing production apps.
Mezeats Holdings is a Restaurent offering food and beverages.
Farmblox utilizes IoT and AI to give farmers the tools to automate their operations.
NetFabric is building a next-generation network observability platform that seamlessly links all network data sources.
Shift provides VR and AI-based training that allows people to recognize their own biases and gain tools to address them.
Yours is a blockchain-based social network where users can earn bitcoin.
Apexa is an IT Solutions and Staffing Consulting company that leverages emerging technologies.
CareLaunch provides a HIPAA-compliant CRM platform for healthcare providers to manage patients, automate workflows, and enhance engagement.
Dexfolio is a mobile app that provides portfolio tracking and calculates the average purchase count of tokens in crypto wallets.
Visiblie is an AI visibility platform helping brands optimize presence in AI search results.
BRYM offers neurofeedback tools to help teams improve focus, reduce errors, and work better under pressure.
Callie care is an AgeTech startup building a proactive voice AI assistant that calls older adults daily to manage everyday needs.
Flyboard specializing in AI-powered voice agents for the mid-market
ORBES is building the maintenance backbone for space.
Balthazar is a SaaS measurement platform that bridges the gap between measurement design, software development and data management.
Cross Bible is a SaaS company that offers easy-to-use, web-based Bible study software for users of all levels.
The Tech Loop powers anonymous collaboration, exclusive inventory access, talent sourcing, and responsible AI adoption in automotive retail.
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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