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) | 15 | $11.7M |
| Content | 1 | Undisclosed |
| B2B | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Government | 1 | $25.0M |
| Agriculture | 1 | $11.2M |
| Asset Management | 1 | $7.0M |
| Biotechnology | 1 | Undisclosed |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | $5.0M |
| Apps | 1 | $2.1M |
Elyra Systems is an AI-powered reservation software for restaurants, handling calls, emails, bookings, and table management.
Framewise Health provides AI-personalized, clinician-reviewed discharge education videos integrated with EHR systems and delivered by SMS.
Walter builds AI-native employees for manufacturing back offices, automating data entry, ERP workflows, and document processing securely.
Hessian is the platform for automating business operations with AI agents and embed engineers on-site to map the company's workflows.
Juno provides an AI health companion for chronic illness management, symptom tracking, and care coordination.
Ergo automates CRM management, sales workflows, and follow-up activities for revenue teams.
Result is an AI operating system for internet businesses, enabling founders to incorporate, manage operations, and automate workflows.
Zenbu is an extensible IDE and workspace for developers to run, manage, and review code from parallel AI coding agents.
Deep Interactions provides a collaborative AI platform for teams to build, deploy, and manage AI applications.
Wato is an enterprise AI workspace providing an orchestration layer for shared agent memory, reusable workflows, and collaborative tools.
YouArt develops AI tools for generating images and videos through workflow-based creative agents and multimodel automation.
Limrun provides remote Xcode, iOS simulators, and Android emulators that enable cloud-based AI agents to build and test mobile apps.
Parrot is the AI management platform for collision repair shops, handling customer interactions, insurance claims, and shop operations.
Fuchsia is a AI native service provider company that offers a platform for hardware compliance and documentation services.
Kimba employs AI to evaluate biometric data and provide individualized scent treatment to improve sleep and health.
Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
ContraVault AI offers AI-driven tender analysis, risk detection, insight extraction, and bid evaluation to streamline decision-making.
Receipts Depositary Corporation offers a platform for investing in digital and alternative assets using the DR structure.
Kopra Bio is a Biotechnology Research firm offering that cure cancer through viral immunotherapy technology.
WhyBrilliant is an AI-guided recruitment platform matching tech candidates with companies.
Interfaze develops AI APIs for OCR, web scraping, speech recognition, classification, and structured data extraction workflows.
Mantle Energy develops activated geothermal systems that repurpose depleted wells to generate low-carbon baseload power.
Hexis is a predictive nutrition ecosystem that optimizes the performance of athletes and nutritionists.
Eileen provides a platform for CPG brands to audit product placement by crowdsourcing shelf checks, photo‑verified audits, and analytics.
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.
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