9,222 companies in the VCBacked database raised Pre-Seed as their most recent round. 304 of them closed that round in the last 90 days — that recent cohort is the one worth treating as a trigger event, and it is what the list below leads with. Each company shows round size, stage, city and the investors behind it. Data through July 29, 2026.
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| Company | Funding |
|---|---|
| $778K | |
| $665K | |
| $10.5M | |
| $2.6M | |
| $996K | |
| $1.4M | |
| $3.2M | |
| $4.5M | |
| $781K | |
| $4.5M | |
| $850K | |
| $2.0M | |
| $2.6M | |
| $535K | |
| $2.8M | |
| $2.0M | |
| $10.0M | |
| $5.1M | |
| $10.0M | |
| $1.3M | |
| $497K | |
| $2.2M | |
| $505K | |
| $2.5M | |
| $3.4M | |
| $1.4M | |
| $500K | |
| $513K | |
| $969K | |
| $2.3M | |
| $2.5M | |
| $781K | |
| $1.3M | |
| $634K | |
| $2.5M | |
| $2.5M | |
| $2.2M | |
| $1.3M | |
| $800K | |
| $1.5M | |
| $5.0M | |
| $300K | |
| $1.1M | |
| $538K | |
| $2.7M | |
| $456K | |
| $1.0M | |
| $1.3M | |
| $515K | |
| $657K | |
| $1.5M | |
| $1.9M | |
| $2.4M | |
| $9.1M | |
| $5.1M | |
| $764K | |
| $425K | |
| $330K | |
| $2.2M | |
| $571K | |
| $500K | |
| $742K | |
| $799K | |
| $2.3M | |
| $1.0M | |
| $3.3M | |
| $2.0M | |
| $4.0M | |
| $1.4M | |
| $700K | |
| $342K | |
| $500K | |
| $3.0M | |
| $220K | |
| $1.6M | |
| $1.6M | |
| $500K | |
| Undisclosed | |
| $4.0M | |
| $534K | |
| $2.6M | |
| $792K | |
| $500K | |
| $2.4M | |
| $3.4M | |
| $4.0M | |
| $1.3M | |
| $1.3M | |
| $791K | |
| $1.0M | |
| $3.5M | |
| $600K | |
| $1.5M | |
| $571K | |
| $2.9M | |
| $1.9M | |
| $500K | |
| $2.0M | |
| $1.7M | |
| Undisclosed |
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Pre-seed is the first institutional money into a company, raised before there is much to underwrite beyond the founders and an early product. Rounds are usually assembled from angels, pre-seed funds, accelerators and syndicates rather than a single lead, and are sized to buy twelve to eighteen months in which to find something worth building a seed round around.
Pre-seed companies are the fastest segment in the market to sell to and the smallest to sell into. There is no procurement, no security questionnaire and often no budget holder other than a founder, so decisions that would take a quarter at Series B take an afternoon. The trade-off is contract size and survival rate: many pre-seed companies will not raise again, so the segment works best for low-touch, self-serve products where acquisition cost is small.
The strategic case for pre-seed is compounding rather than immediate. Tools adopted at pre-seed become the defaults a company carries through seed and Series A, when seat counts and budgets grow by an order of magnitude. Sellers who can serve pre-seed profitably are buying an option on the winners, which is why so many developer and productivity tools price a free or near-free tier specifically at this stage.
Each stage is a distinct buying profile. Cohorts do not overlap — a company appears only under its most recent round.
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