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 33,141 recently funded seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 9 | $16.0M |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | $2.6M |
| Apps | 1 | $22.0M |
| Delivery | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | $7.0M |
| EdTech | 1 | $400K |
| Finance | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Blockchain | 1 | $144K |
| Education | 1 | $100K |
| Industrial | 1 | Undisclosed |
API-first global payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Martie diverts perfectly good surplus pantry staples from going to landfills and delivers them directly to customers.
Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.
Apptest.ai is an AI-powered platform for no-code mobile app testing on real devices, automating QA without scripts.
Guavo serves as an AI-assistant platform that handles restaurant and event bookings through simple conversational inputs.
StealthGPT provides AI tools for content creation, rewriting, and detection, supporting essays, SEO, and developer integration.
XP platforms offer comprehensive and innovative solutions to businesses by working in integration.
Cypher Energy is a brand of energy drinks that offers non-carbonated, sugar-free energy drinks infused with Latino-inspired flavors.
Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks.
Wearly retailOS: The complete operating system for modern retail.
CergenX is an AI-based invention in neonatal brain monitoring technology that identifies newborn infants who are at risk of brain injury.
The Ultimate Web3 Launchpad Designed for Brands
Yeager Technologies develops AI software for financial markets, focusing on autonomous trading systems and data-driven decision automation.
AEER Platform is an edtech platform for self-development.
Elai is a text-to-video platform that allows users to generate AI videos with real humans just from text.
XPERT is based in Sophia Antipolis (FRANCE) and is specialized in undersea ecosystems and infrastructure solutions.
Qubit Pharmaceuticals is an EIT Health Headstart laureate and is incubated at Paris Biotech Santé.
Lalaland utilizes artificial intelligence to create models for fashion brands to show their collections for any size and skin tone.
Prota Games is a mobile games company
Slice Nation Pizza serves the patent-pending individual pizza-slice pan with in less than 2.5 minutes.
Bee is the first Web3 mortgage app for homebuyers.
Xendoo is a cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform that is focused on helping small businesses.
Babbly offers an AI-powered platform to track a baby's speech and language development.
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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 33,141 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 33,141 seed companies with verified founder contact information, updated regularly as new rounds are announced.
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