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 33,319 recently funded seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 14 | $6.0M |
| Apps | 3 | $1.0M |
| Analytics | 2 | $500K |
| Billing | 1 | $500K |
| CAD | 1 | $500K |
| Computer Vision | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Developer Platform | 1 | $500K |
| Bitcoin | 1 | $3.0M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 18 | $8.0M |
| Berkeley | 2 | $500K |
| Stockholm | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Menlo Park | 1 | $500K |
| Dover | 1 | $1.0M |
| San Ramon | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Wellington | 1 | $3.0M |
Zerosettle offers a merchant web checkout software for iOS apps to process payments, manage tax, and handle compliance and disputes.
Librar is a library management software that offers shelf scanning, sorting, book recommendation, purchase management, and a website.
Rev1 offers AI-powered geometric, dimensioning, and tolerancing automation for mechanical engineers.
Congruent develops radar hardware and simulation software that generates raw real and synthetic data for autonomous vehicle training.
Fed10 offers software that uses AI agents to monitor legislation, identify bills affecting businesses, and deliver insights on policies.
CodeWisp is an online platform that helps beginners learn coding by creating simple games using visual tools and JavaScript.
Aurorin CAD offers is a software company that offers AI-native CAD for mechanical engineers and hardware businesses.
Kita Technologies uses computer vision and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured underwriting data.
Booko App offers software that lets businesses manage bookings, schedules, and customer reservations.
Overshoot AI offers an SDK to run vision language models on live video and return real-time analysis from plain English prompts.
Carrot Labs develops AI software that generates and tests code changes to help developers build and modify software applications.
BrainGrid is an AI product planner that helps you plan ideas, features, and activities for your AI coding tools.
Sparkles offers a cloud environment where teams build, test, and preview code changes.
Traverse is a data research lab that builds training data to help AI models develop judgment and handle ambiguous tasks.
Ressl AI develops AI agents that configure Salesforce, automate CRM tasks, troubleshoot errors, and document changes.
Docura Health offers AI platform that analyzes medical records and generates med-legal reports with impairment rating calculations.
Ashr offers a platform that evaluates AI agents by running tool calls, prompts, scoring outputs, and tracing execution paths.
Sentrial offers an AI agent observability platform that monitors behavior, detects issues, suggests code fixes, and integrates via APIs.
Shortkit offers an SDK for integrating, delivering, managing, and analyzing short-form vertical videos.
Salus offers AI runtime controls that validate and block agent tool calls, enforce policies, and guide retries with feedback.
Moda offers software that analyzes AI conversation data to cluster usage patterns, explain failures, and replay agent workflows.
Verdex offers software that utilizes satellite imagery and data to track and analyze farmland conditions.
Pollinate offers a supply chain execution platform that connects ERP data to manage procurement, inventory, invoices, and supplier workflow.
Eos AI creates an uniform data infrastructure for healthcare AI by transforming unstructured medical data.
SwapCult is an instant crypto swap platform, which majorly focuses on customers privacy with no sign up hassle and wide choices.
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 33,319 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 33,319 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.
For a broader view of the startup funding landscape, explore all funding stages or browse companies by our full company directory. Whether you are looking for early-stage startups to invest in or growth-stage companies to sell to, VCBacked provides the data you need to identify and connect with the right companies.
Perfect for: B2B sales teams targeting seed companies, investors exploring opportunities, and service providers looking for companies that just raised capital and are ready to scale.
Get Started - Access Contact InformationJoin thousands of sales teams, investors, and service providers using VCBacked