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) | 3 | $22.9M |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | $6.4M |
| Information Technology | 2 | $1.0M |
| Blockchain | 2 | $6.5M |
| Internet | 1 | $377K |
| Advice | 1 | $2.5M |
| Health Care | 1 | $350K |
| Agriculture | 1 | $150K |
| Aerospace | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Direct Sales | 1 | $750K |
The first AI Software that saves radiologists' time and increases reliability by analyzing spine MR images.
Lana SB is a restaurant company.
Life Inside is a social media platform that helps people share their cultures, opportunities, and employer brands.
Phīla Engaged Giving is a philanthropic advisory firm that offers consulting and advisory services to philanthropic donors.
Mobile App, Dating, Social Network
Seedling Biosystems provides essential ingredients with sustainable farming.
Shuttle is an outer space travel company that offers a commercial spaceflight booking platform.
Techgnix hires, trains, and places local software engineers.
AI-Driven customer intelligence platform
American Ostrich Farms is a vertically integrated producer of the healthiest, most environmentally sustainable red meat
AFFiNE develops open-source workspace software for note-taking, whiteboards, databases, and AI-assisted productivity.
BEERMKR is the world's first all-in-one beer-making machine that anyone can use.
Crew.work provides all-in-one productivity tool designed for recruiters.
DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
Divaks is a fast-growing food-tech company that develops insect protein solutions for the food industry.
Ultravox develops an automation platform for large language models.
Kolibrio is the first BEV Relay (Broadcaster Extractable Value) that allows transaction broadcasters.
Orb Labs is developing cross-chain messaging protocols and omnichain applications for both developers and consumers.
Enterprise SaaS / PaaS in supply chain: digitise supplier documents, save up to 3% on spend, long-tail SCF, trade finance, amazing analytics
Cloud-native Privilege Access Management (PAM) for developers.
A marketplace for fractional real estate investing, management, and trading
Statera with the goal to bring transparency and predictability to the way physicians are paid.
Studio 21 is a live casino production company providing management and video streaming of live table casino games.
TouchMenu helps to have quick access to a list of your items and services.
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.
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