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) | 14 | $1.0M |
| Agentic AI | 4 | $500K |
| Electronics | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Clinical Trials | 1 | Undisclosed |
| CleanTech | 1 | Undisclosed |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Accounting | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Clean Energy | 1 | $871K |
| Analytics | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 11 | $500K |
| New York | 2 | $500K |
| London | 2 | $500K |
| Dover | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Miami | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Brandon | 1 | Undisclosed |
| San Jose | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Los Angeles | 1 | Undisclosed |
| San Diego | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Minneapolis | 1 | Undisclosed |
Amboras is an AI-native ecommerce platform that enables businesses to build, manage, and optimize online stores through intelligent tools.
Andco is an AI-powered legal operations platform that focuses on helping personal injury law firms with AI-powered case workflows.
Cohesion develops AI-driven research tools that automate public equity investment workflows for institutional investors.
Clawvisor provides a credential-vaulting gateway and authorization layer for AI agents accessing external services.
Akkari provides AI-powered customer operations platform that automates follow-ups, workflows, and account management.
Juno provides an AI health companion for chronic illness management, symptom tracking, and care coordination.
Result is an AI operating system for internet businesses, enabling founders to incorporate, manage operations, and automate workflows.
Twolabs develops humanoid robots for caregiving, helping senior living communities with assistance, monitoring, and companionship.
Anoria is an electronic gadgets company that offers smart wearables for emotional and mental health tracking.
Chronicle Labs provides secure enterprise sandboxes to backtest, evaluate, and safely stage AI agents before production deployment.
Harbor generates clinical trial forms, captures source data, and monitors study data for research and regulatory compliance.
Adialante develops low-cost, clinical-grade MRI systems and related services for accessible cancer and neuroimaging screening.
AICE Power develops autonomous subsea drones for monitoring and protecting critical infrastructure and underwater security operations.
Alchemize provides an AI-native customs brokerage platform that automates international trade compliance workflows.
Allowance is a application that allows users to make purchases through AI integrated wallets for safe and secure shopping online.
Arden provides AI software for SOX audits, automating evidence collection, control testing, and audit workpapers.
Ardent AI builds autonomous agents that plug into data stack to manage pipelines, transformations, and operations without humans.
Aster is an AI autonomous research lab to automate open-ended research: research that defines its own problems before it can answer them.
Astracite is a developer of battery anode materials manufactured from captured carbon dioxide.
Autostep provides desktop software that identifies repetitive business tasks and recommends automation or process changes.
Chert builds an API platform for AI-powered messaging agents and sales outreach on iMessage and other direct messaging channels.
Inth offers an observability platform that provides open-source consent management standard for users and AI agents.
Dayjob builds autonomous AI agents to fully optimise real-time dispatch, scheduling, and routing for industrial logistics fleets.
Deep Interactions provides a collaborative AI platform for teams to build, deploy, and manage AI applications.
Eileen provides a platform for CPG brands to audit product placement by crowdsourcing shelf checks, photo‑verified audits, and analytics.
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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