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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health Care | 4 | $9.6M |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $53.3M |
| Cyber Security | 2 | $7.6M |
| Industrial | 1 | $5.9M |
| Hardware | 1 | $4.2M |
| Financial Services | 1 | $56K |
| Blockchain | 1 | $2.0M |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | $400K |
| B2B | 1 | $1.5M |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | $5.0M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 4 | $11.6M |
| Paris | 2 | $7.4M |
| London | 2 | $5.0M |
| Perugia | 1 | $772K |
| Mountain View | 1 | $45.8M |
| Delft | 1 | $4.2M |
| Boston | 1 | $2.6M |
| Santo Domingo | 1 | $2.0M |
| Newark | 1 | $400K |
| Sunnyvale | 1 | $120K |
Corabea is a healthcare and wellness company that provides clinical care and digital tools for patients dealing with eating disorders.
Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that improves large language models for complex reasoning and problem solving.
Recupere Metals focused on recycling copper scrap into high-quality electrical wires.
Villari delivers wireless structural health monitoring technology.
Scout is a financial planning company that offers financial education, wealth management, and tax preparation services for athletes.
Wise Layer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.
Freeze is a proactive security technique that prevents assaults by denying hackers the necessary information.
Capa is are the rails connecting Latin Americans to global finance
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Beans is on a mission to fight food waste and rising prices.
Drip manufactures water which has naturally filtered and enriched with minerals from deep of England's South Downs.
Holding Corporation for Health Related Business
Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
Lifequipt sits at the intersection of AgeTech and DeepTech, creating apps that make it easy to secure, organize, and share vital docs.
MH3D uses nuclear imaging in early detection and monitoring of cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases.
OrthoForum Value Network is a healthcare company that offers transformation of musculoskeletal value-based care delivery.
PerioTrap is an early stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to eradicate the root cause of periodontitis.
RAYHAWK Technologies promote a safer working environment and benefit organizations in both small and large facilities.
Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.
Welfaire is an insurance and health insurance startup for the self-employed.
WhiteStar provides Nextgen Security Platform to better secure VPNs today and quickly change encryption as quantum threatens the enterprise
BlueLayer focuses on building software stacks for project developers producing carbon credits.
Valendo Health is a value-based care company built at Redesign Health in 2023.
Basepair is a SaaS for genomics analysis that has the potential to fundamentally change medicine, research, agriculture.
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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