Seed stage companies are early-stage startups that have validated their initial concept and are building traction. These companies typically raise $500K-$3M to develop their product and acquire first customers.
Explore 33,142 recently funded seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $440K |
| Blockchain | 2 | $8.4M |
| AgTech | 1 | $885K |
| Advertising | 1 | $1.1M |
| Angel Investment | 1 | $598K |
| Agentic AI | 1 | $500K |
| Content | 1 | $648K |
| Architecture | 1 | $423K |
| Electronics | 1 | $300K |
| Grocery | 1 | Undisclosed |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 3 | $4.5M |
| New York | 2 | $4.5M |
| São Paulo | 1 | $885K |
| Helsinki | 1 | $1.1M |
| Matthews | 1 | $598K |
| Sydney | 1 | $648K |
| London | 1 | $423K |
| Newark | 1 | $300K |
| Washington | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Ceará | 1 | $250K |
Future Cow is a Brazilian cellular agriculture startup developing an innovative technology that produces real dairy milk without cows.
A marketing & sales presentation tool with main features: brand management, interactive content, smart slides, team work, & more.
Palmetto & Pine is an entrepreneur-led investment firm dedicated to preserving and growing the businesses
Dental Insurance Verification, AI Dental Insurance Verification SaaS, Dental Billing Outsourcing
IMX Power Holdings is an industrial manufacturing platform focused on busbars and electrical enclosures.
Please Assist Me is a home management platform that offers home resident services for apartments and clients.
Wasabi is the operator of a financial platform for NFT trading.
First health and wellness marketplace and benefits management platform.
AI Personalized sleep therapy platform for shift workers (nurses, truckers, and pilots).
Social Tip is a platform that allows users to become influencers and earn money by promoting companies.
Aikido Technologies develops innovative floating wind technologies.
Doctor Droid is an on-call intelligence platform to accelerate production issue & incident investigations.
Atium is developing a new generation of water treatment technologies for heavy metal removal.
Mesh is a platform for email security created specifically for managed service providers, enabling them to deploy and safeguard.
Wevolt is revolutionizing the electric vehicle charging experience with a unique, people-powered network.
Olumo helps organizations build a people-focused culture through a data-driven approach.
Kairos provides the tools for anyone to create, publish, and verify NFTs without any code.
Privacy-first DID and ZKP infrastructure
Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
7 Chord's BondDroid AI is a real-time dynamic pricing engine of tradable assets make informed profit-maximizing decisions.
BugBox develops industrial, scalable and fully automated insect farming technology for sustainable protein production.
Seed funding is typically the first significant round of institutional or angel capital a startup raises. Companies at the seed stage usually have a working product or a strong prototype and are beginning to acquire early customers. This stage bridges the gap between concept validation and achieving the traction needed for a Series A.
$500K - $5M
The actual amount varies based on market conditions, company traction, and investor appetite.
Seed funding is used to refine the product based on early customer feedback, build out the core team (typically engineering and go-to-market roles), establish initial go-to-market channels, and generate enough traction to raise a Series A within 12-18 months.
Seed-stage investors include angel investors, seed-focused venture capital firms, and accelerator programs. Notable seed-stage investors include firms like First Round Capital, Precursor Ventures, and Initialized Capital, as well as individual angels with domain expertise.
Seed-stage startups are typically evaluated on early revenue or user growth, the size and defensibility of their target market, product-market fit signals, and the strength of the founding team. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) in the low five figures or strong user engagement metrics are common benchmarks.
Based on 33,142 seed companies tracked in the VCBacked database, here is a snapshot of current funding activity at this stage.
Finding companies that have recently raised seed funding is valuable for sales teams, investors, recruiters, and service providers. Seed startups are actively spending their newly raised capital on tools, talent, and services, making them ideal prospects. VCBacked tracks 33,142 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 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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