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 24,429 recently funded seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 5 | $3.4M |
| Health Care | 3 | $2.0M |
| Agriculture | 2 | $2.9M |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | $2.1M |
| Advertising | 1 | $600K |
| Consulting | 1 | $1.0M |
| Apparel | 1 | $117K |
| Content Creators | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Internet | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | Undisclosed |
Merkle Trade is the decentralized trading platform that offers crypto.
The easiest way to manage creator-led ad campaigns.
Post-ICU is a digital diary that provides support to patients and family members to understand what happens during and ICU admission.
High-end PowerPoint templates and toolkits created by ex-McKinsey and BCG consultants
SmallSpark enables companies to build, operate and manage energy efficient, low -latency edge-based machine learning models
Remote cardiac monitoring using our own IT complex and smart clothes
Square Mile Farms produce stunning areas that improve the lives of city people by giving them access to plants.
Industry-First AI Agents for Fleet Safety Operations
Traent drives the digital transformation in Real Estate, bringing innovation powered by AI and a patended industrial blockchain.
Yarta provides tools for farmers and merchants to purchase, sell, hedge, and finance agricultural commodities.
Jupiter is a grocery commerce advertising network for CPGs
Metaphor is a language-model-based search engine that simplifies how users carry out web searches.
Cooings Care provides postpartum care services with a focus on supporting new mothers.
Novel biomaterials grown from infinitely renewable bacterial-nanocellulose.
Bump provides a platform that connects users to discover and interact with new contacts and communities online.
Critical is a social enterprise that provides recycled furniture and homewares made from plastic waste.
Findly helps businesses understand and interact with their data by providing the business intelligence.
A B2B2C fintech and Insurtech disrupter of banks, insurance carriers & wealth managers in retirement & aged care funding.
Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers and wines.
Superpowering Adherence and Prevention in Digital health
Tech-enabled & data-driven recruiting platform that makes up for the lack of data when hiring suitable talent.
KURUKURU is a webcomic platform to create comics by posing scenes and generating characters.
Automated PR Platform using AI to generate non-detectable articles and publishing directly to over 600 top news websites.
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 24,429 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 24,429 seed companies with verified founder contact information, updated regularly as new rounds are announced.
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