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 | $3.0M |
| Apps | 2 | $2.5M |
| Analytics | 1 | $600K |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | $500K |
| Health Care | 1 | $500K |
| Developer Tools | 1 | $500K |
| Software | 1 | $500K |
| Content Marketing | 1 | $700K |
| AgTech | 1 | $500K |
| Productivity Tools | 1 | $250K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 3 | $1.5M |
| Mexico City | 1 | $600K |
| Los Angeles | 1 | $500K |
| New York | 1 | $500K |
| Oakland | 1 | $1.2M |
| Greenville | 1 | $700K |
| Alameda | 1 | $500K |
| Redwood City | 1 | $500K |
| Boston | 1 | $1.2M |
| Orange | 1 | $250K |
Enterprise training platform empowering Latin America's workforce with essential Data Analytics & AI-related skills.
Glade is a platform for financial planning and reporting.
Instaclass is an ed-tech company that helps users to create classes using Artificial Intelligence tools.
Kips Health is an application that helps to book an appointment related to injury, health, and overall fitness problems.
Line empowers contractors with tools that make building decarbonization projects affordable for their customers and boosts conversion rates.
Lysto AI structures data from sales, communication, and accounting tools into a revenue intelligence system for real-time insights.
Miri AI offers AI-powered wellness coaching and personalized health plans for coaches, organizations, and brands.
North 7th is a one-stop shop for real estate marketing needs.
Ohmic Biosciences uses protein engineering technology in providing solutions to any disease in any crop.
Pandan uses artificial intelligence in automating to identify and fix health insurance operations.
On a mission to help people effortlessly grow 5% of their food by 2030.
Kwiver is a lightweight toolkit for computing detection and tracking metrics on a variety of video data in a bicycle.
A.ID is an identity and compliance platform with a focus on high-risk clients.
Luminari is a clinical research organization dedicated to accelerating scientific innovation.
Remedy Technologies develops AI agents that automate pharmacy workflows, manage prescription refills, and handle insurance and billing.
Chutney.ai provides an AI workspace for sales engineers to document activities, automate reporting, and enhance revenue impact assessment.
Pricing Operations Platform for Insurance and Finance
Vickii is the platform that enables self-directed investing by providing access to relevant information.
Cirkla assists responsible brands in meeting their sustainable packaging objectives.
Loop serves as a nexus for Gen Z high school students to discover their passions by connecting them to internship and job opportunities.
Marli develops technologies that makes taking climate action simple
El-Dokan is an enterprise e-commerce software designed for large and growing retail stores in MENA.
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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