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) | 8 | $8.5M |
| E-Commerce | 4 | $2.3M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.1M |
| Employee Benefits | 1 | $500K |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | $2.5M |
| Fitness | 1 | $500K |
| Android | 1 | $220K |
| Recruiting | 1 | $380K |
| Health Care | 1 | $1.0M |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $3.5M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2 | $650K |
| Istanbul | 2 | $2.5M |
| Seattle | 1 | $500K |
| London | 1 | $1.2M |
| Frisco | 1 | $500K |
| Rye | 1 | $792K |
| Lund | 1 | $534K |
| San Francisco | 1 | $2.6M |
| Round Rock | 1 | $2.5M |
| South Melbourne | 1 | $350K |
OneLoop is a financial services platform that specializes in building an AI workforce through AI workflows for startups and enterprises.
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Retisio provides a cloud-based eCommerce platform for businesses.
Proof-first hiring marketplace. Candidates are ID-verified and show real skill on video before any interview. In the Paychex Marketplace.
Waveium develops an API-based cloud platform for instant wireless design simulations and validation.
SuperPlane is an AI-first platform engineering and DevOps control plane that helps teams automate, orchestrate.
XPerf focuses on AI-native software for both training and inference data centers to enhance their GPU utilization.
Luro Health virtualizes obesity and weight management programs for federally qualified and community health centers.
eCo2metrix is a SaaS platform to automate sustainability reporting for tourism operators.
GoFeels offers an all-in-one Saas platform for lodging businesses to manage operations through automated online sales & bookings.
Software solutions for cash management
Fashly is an e-commerce brand that sells wholesale and retail clothing, beauty and accessories.
Heroify is a skill testing platform for marketing and sales jobs.
Pioneer Mind is a mental fitness platform that offers executive coaching, business coaching, and peer support to drive startup success.
Wakeline is developing continuously adaptive AI systems.
Kyrok is focused on supply chain teams in pharma and chemicals, with software for planning, inventory, procurement, and production.
Fika Jobs is creating an artificial intelligence-powered employment platform that prioritizes videos.
CompanAIn is a technology company developing an AI-powered pet health and wellness platform.
Ideasets is building a data-driven creative ecosystem where content creation becomes measurable, repeatable, and investable.
Ideasets is building a data-driven creative ecosystem where content creation becomes measurable, repeatable, and investable.
Sherlocks.ai is an AI incident response platform that helps detect, analyze, and resolve system issues with automated insights.
Cosmos is an AI agent company powering compliant, intelligent, and omni-channel communications for lenders and collections teams.
CloEE is an AI Digital Advisor for Continuous Improvement in Discrete Manufacturing Companies
Fundin offers a faster, more flexible, and cost-effective way to manage grant funding with access to expert support and AI-powered tools
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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