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) | 6 | $7.1M |
| E-Commerce | 2 | $840K |
| Biotechnology | 2 | $407K |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $2.7M |
| 1 | $500K | |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | $3.0M |
| Financial Services | 1 | $391K |
| Robotics | 1 | $1.7M |
| Logistics | 1 | $1.0M |
| Cyber Security | 1 | $125K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 2 | $4.5M |
| Singapore | 2 | $1.1M |
| San Francisco | 2 | $600K |
| New Castle | 1 | $3.0M |
| Cesena | 1 | $730K |
| Toronto | 1 | $875K |
| Lausanne | 1 | $250K |
| Odense | 1 | $1.7M |
| Chicago | 1 | $1.0M |
| San Juan | 1 | $300K |
Upstream is a collaborative email client with channels and task-tracking, offering context and transparency for efficient team decisions.
Aethex is developing the voice stack—from enterprise deployment to speech models for new markets.
Handshake Finance builds the first customizable escrow platform to safeguard B2B service transactions.
Vivilo automates creation and distribution of personalized video packages for sports and endurance events using AI and computer vision.
Teachaid is an AI educational platform that offers complete curriculum and pedagogy AI solutions.
YANGMEY offers blind boxes called YANGMEY17.
Blinktroll is the autonomous robot training system.
Software powering logistics for the global food & beverage sector.
MedETechni develops AI-driven UV phototherapy devices for wound healing and dermatological treatments, enhancing patient care globally.
PryvX provides a platform that has been designed to combat cybercrime through collaboration and data security.
Lerna AI is a mobile user profiling solution that preserves user privacy.
Plug and Play Gamified engagement and retention SaaS platform.
Meat App is a marketplace for sustainably produced meat and butcher's products.
Nomerra is a platform that automates manual workflows for private market managers.
Akro AI automates document-heavy back-office workflows for regulated industries.
AI workflows that sync 80+ data sources into a continuous, agent-ready customer knowledge base.
Macrodata Labs is a technology company that provides data infrastructure for the artificial intelligence and robotics industries.
Skarbe delivers an AI-powered sales assistant platform that reads emails, meetings, and calls for small teams and solo founders.
Zoooom is an automotive technology platform offering AI tools for car discovery, comparison, and ownership management.
Pally is an AI-native relationship intelligence app.
Moara is a SaaS firm ofering AI based research workflow platform for screening, extraction, and collaborative systematic reviews.
Medical Equipment Capital Planning Platform
Harmony AI, an early-stage startup that is now building out of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Humboldt Blue develops climate control system based on liquid-solid cooling.
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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