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) | 3 | $8.6M |
| Health Care | 2 | $1.2M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $1.8M |
| Logistics | 1 | $193K |
| Lead Generation | 1 | $500K |
| B2C | 1 | $53K |
| Industrial Automation | 1 | $1.5M |
| Consumer | 1 | $750K |
| Electronics | 1 | $1.2M |
| Nanotechnology | 1 | $1.7M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 | $6.4M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $2.6M |
| Palo Alto | 2 | $3.0M |
| New York | 2 | $6.2M |
| Los Angeles | 1 | $500K |
| Rio De Janeiro | 1 | $53K |
| Miami | 1 | $750K |
| Helsinki | 1 | $1.2M |
| Vienna | 1 | $1.7M |
| Milan | 1 | $2.1M |
AlloDoc offers 24/7 AI medical advice and connects users to local doctors for consultations, diagnoses, and prescriptions via mobile.
AI-enabled track & trace platform for B2B logistics.
Introducing the human element in SMS, email, and VM interactions to generate, qualify, and convert leads to sales.
After-school online tutoring and learning programs for kids.
Zaro is a workspace platform that unifies AI agents and apps to automate repetitive tasks and accelerate important work.
Mesoware is an automation infrastructure platform that helps manufacturers in designing, installing, and extending robotic automation.
CODITOS is a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company that manufactures a plant-based snack called Crunchy Macaronis™
Granarium Technologies is a Finnish deep-tech energy that creates renewable supercapacitors using only nanocellulose, biocarbon, and water.
Invisible Light Labs develops a nanomechanical infrared analyzer.
Fintech platform in fractional real estate investment
Fixxy is an insurtech startup offering AI-powered, subscription-based protection plans for consumer electronics.
Kascaid is developing biosensors for real-time monitoring of inflammatory biomarkers.
Ruly is energizing of candy with its new energy gummy candy, designed specifically for busy adults seeking a convenient energy boost.
Agentic TPM for AI-native engineering orgs
Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand.
Empowering blue-collar workers through a digital job platform, bridging the access gap, and fostering financial inclusion.
AidPlex is a MedTech startup aiming at disrupting the orthopedics sector by offering patient-centered products.
University spin-off from Germany pushing the boundaries of mobility data intelligence leveraging predicative AI
Defimec is a blockchain technology ecosystem that creates decentralized applications, platforms, and protocols.
Dog is Human operates as a human-grade pet health company.
Gambit is a crypto-powered play-and-earn fantasy sports game
nexTC manufactures insulator and conductive oxide coatings for the energy and large area electronics markets.
Pulse offers a mobile application with purposeful networking tools designed to help its users advance relationships.
Wassist is a platform for building AI-powered WhatsApp agents that help businesses automate sales, customer support, and marketing directly.
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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