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) | 16 | $2.5M |
| AI Infrastructure | 2 | Undisclosed |
| Analytics | 1 | $500K |
| Aerospace | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Credit Cards | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Health Care | 1 | $1.5M |
| Financial Services | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Lead Generation | 1 | $500K |
| Animation | 1 | Undisclosed |
Auxos is an AI-powered customer intelligence platform that provides simulated customer audiences for product, marketing, and research teams.
Cignara is an agentic AI company that provides AI voice, chat, and copilot agents for enterprise customer support and sales operations.
Incandor develops behavioral intelligence software and APIs for fraud detection on digital financial platforms.
Incandor develops behavioral intelligence software and APIs for fraud detection on digital financial platforms.
Arctic Health is a credentialing platform that provides AI-enabled credentialing and payer enrollment services for healthcare organizations.
General Aviation develops satellite-connected ATC and airport surface management systems for aircraft, drones, and ground vehicles.
HEVN provides business banking, global payments, payroll, virtual accounts, and payment APIs for international companies.
BioStack is a digital platform that provides healthcare AI training environments and curated multimodal clinical datasets.
Walter builds AI-native employees for manufacturing back offices, automating data entry, ERP workflows, and document processing securely.
Uno Wallet develops a mobile wallet that connects multiple credit cards and routes payments according to user-defined card rules.
Niino is an Italian healthtech startup that operates a digital logistics marketplace.
Hexa is an AI operations platform that helps manufacturers and distributors automate quoting, procurement, and back office workflows.
Archer offers digital financial services, enabling secure payments, transfers, and account management services.
Gojiberry AI is an AI Agent that finds high intent leads for B2B companies.
HeyClicky develops a Mac desktop AI assistant that guides workflows and automates on-screen and background tasks.
InLoop Robotics develops bimanual robotic systems and RaaS solutions for manufacturing, assembly, and logistics workflows.
Pentagon develops software for coordinating AI agents, enabling communication, task management, and shared memory.
The Company Company develops AI agents for business operations to automate enterprise B2B sales and marketing workflows.
Arzana is an AI firm that automates quoting, order entry, purchasing, and administrative workflows for manufacturing companies.
Playabl is an AI-powered, no-code platform for creating web games and interactive experiences by chatting in plain text.
Gravy Finance is a fintech company building an AI agent that helps users manage spending, automate finances, and track savings.
jo is a personal AI assistant chatbot that connects apps to deliver a daily morning brief and to-do list based on the user.
OpenProse is an open-source infrastructure for long-running AI work: a declarative language plus the Reactor harness/runtime for workflows.
Interfaze develops AI APIs for OCR, web scraping, speech recognition, classification, and structured data extraction workflows.
Modern is an AI IT operations platform that automates service desk, access management, onboarding, and workflows through AI agents.
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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