The earliest stage of startup funding, usually from founders, friends, family, or early angel investors.
Pre-seed funding is the earliest stage of startup financing, often before a company has a product or significant traction. This stage typically involves raising small amounts of capital from founders' personal savings, friends and family, angel investors, or pre-seed-focused funds.
Pre-seed rounds typically range from $50,000 to $500,000. The capital is used to validate a business idea, build an initial prototype, and conduct early customer discovery.
Full Pre-Seed guide · the Pre-Seed rounds we track are listed below.
$484M raised across 163 disclosed Pre-seed deals.
Latest round · Sep 16, 2026 · RSS
| Date | Company | Amount | Round | Sector | Country | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 26 | Luminids Luminids is an AI startup developing a relational intelligence platform. The company is raising a pre-seed round to launch its product. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | AI | United Kingdom | Undisclosed |
| Sep 18, 26 | Hello Haven Hello Haven is an AI startup that has emerged from stealth mode with a $15 million pre-seed funding round. The company has launched Haven, an AI-powered software application designed to remember user preferences and act on their behalf across various communication channels. This funding round, led by Mayfield, aims to further develop their personal AI technology. | $15.0M | Pre-seed | AI | United States | Mayfield |
| Sep 18, 26 | African Biochar Startup An Africa-based biochar developer has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its model of installing biochar production units at food processing facilities across Sub-Saharan Africa. Biochar locks carbon away for long periods, generating removal credits, and by placing units at existing food processors, the startup taps a ready supply of agricultural waste as feedstock. The round signals growing investor interest in durable carbon removal in emerging markets. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Kenya | B Biochar Industrial Group (BIG) |
| Sep 18, 26 | Kiddo Kiddo is a baby-focused quick commerce startup that delivers baby care and parenting essentials within minutes. The startup combines quick delivery with life-stage based product recommendations for parents. The fresh funds will be used for customer acquisition, dark store expansion, technology and product development, and team building. | $1.6M | Pre-seed | ConsumerTech | India | Campus Fund |
| Sep 18, 26 | Phosphoenix Phosphoenix is an Amsterdam-based MedTech startup developing a neuroprosthetic system for people with profound blindness. Their system uses a proprietary Fountain Probe with over 1,000 microelectrodes to directly stimulate the brain's visual pathway, bypassing damage to the eyes. This €1.3 million financing round will support preparations for their first-in-human clinical study and further development of their neurostimulation system. | $1.3M | Pre-seed | Health | Netherlands | TTT Medtech Fund, FIRST Fund, Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland+1 |
| Sep 17, 26 | Biochar Industrial Group Biochar Industrial Group (BIG) is a Nigerian climate technology company focused on industrial-scale carbon removal in Africa. They convert agricultural waste into biochar, a carbon removal product, using a Biochar-as-a-Service model that partners with food processors. This funding will help them scale their operations across Sub-Saharan Africa. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Nigeria | BREEGA, The Catalyst Fund, The Mulago Foundation |
| Sep 17, 26 | BlueShadow BlueShadow is a Danish defense tech startup developing maritime defense technologies, including the BlueDragon and BlueSentry systems. The BlueDragon system is designed to protect Ukrainian coastal cities and maritime transport routes from drone attacks, while BlueSentry aims to safeguard maritime infrastructure from hybrid threats. The company operates between Copenhagen and Kyiv and plans to scale its solutions internationally. | $2.0M | Pre-seed | DeepTech | Denmark | Resist.UA |
| Sep 16, 26 | Evatto Evatto is an AI-powered enterprise platform designed to automate the administrative tasks involved in managing complex event programs. The company's platform handles event scoping, stakeholder coordination, approval workflows, and documentation, aiming to replace manual processes like spreadsheets and emails. This pre-seed funding will be used for product development, international expansion, and hiring. | $1.0M | Pre-seed | AI | Australia | Purpose Ventures |
| Sep 16, 26 | Quartz Quartz is a London-based fintech startup that has raised £2.75 million in pre-seed funding to launch its AI-driven personal finance platform. The platform uses an AI assistant named Charlie to consolidate user pensions, ISAs, and savings into a single app, offering tailored financial insights to consumers who typically miss out on dedicated guidance. Founded in 2025 by former Revolut and N26 executives, the company aims to democratize wealth management through AI. | $3.5M | Pre-seed | Fintech | United Kingdom | Daphni, Outward VC, K Fund+2 |
| Sep 16, 26 | AcouBatt AcouBatt is a company focused on improving battery manufacturing quality and safety. They have secured pre-seed funding to advance their technology in this critical area. | $1.1M | Pre-seed | DeepTech | United Kingdom | Undisclosed |
| Sep 15, 26 | Charikaty Charikaty is a Moroccan legaltech startup founded in 2024 that enables entrepreneurs to incorporate businesses online and provides related services like accounting and trademark filing. The company has closed a pre-seed round at a USD 3.5 million valuation to expand its business lifecycle services and launch new ventures. | $3.5M | Pre-seed | Other | Morocco | Red Tape Ventures, Faris Al-Obaid, Faris Abdi |
| Sep 15, 26 | A Vinyl Bar A Vinyl Bar is a new music app startup founded by Spotify's former Head of Innovation. The company has raised $5.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop its platform. Dawn Ostroff is among the notable backers. | $5.5M | Pre-seed | ConsumerTech | Japan | Dawn Ostroff |
| Sep 15, 26 | Paysika Paysika is a fintech company based in Cameroon that aims to expand into new African markets. The company recently secured $200,000 in pre-seed funding to support its growth and market entry strategies. | $200K | Pre-seed | Fintech | Cameroon | Madica |
| Sep 15, 26 | Boxd Boxd is a Dutch startup building cloud infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents. They provide persistent virtual machines for running code, executing tests, and managing software workflows, addressing the computing demands of AI agents. This $2 million pre-seed round will fund team expansion and the development of their custom virtualization engine. | $2.0M | Pre-seed | AI | Netherlands | BlueYard Capital, OVNI Capital, Antler+3 |
| Sep 14, 26 | Emilia AI Emilia AI is an artificial intelligence startup for restaurants that adds a layer of AI on top of existing security cameras. It cross-references camera data with point-of-sale data to provide real-time insights for upsell opportunities and fraud detection. The company aims to reduce staff turnover by helping waiters earn more. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | AI | United States | Prosus |
| Sep 14, 26 | Peep Beauty Peep Beauty is a D2C beauty brand that has raised ₹12 crore in a pre-seed funding round. The startup focuses on eye beauty products, including colored contact lenses and liquid eyeshadows, and aims to be India's first eye beauty brand. Actor Triptii Dimri has joined as a co-founder and investor, contributing to the brand's creative direction and storytelling. | $1.4M | Pre-seed | ConsumerTech | India | Sadev Ventures, ISV, iSeed+5 |
| Sep 10, 26 | Limetax Limetax is building an AI-powered roll-up of German tax and accounting firms to consolidate the fragmented market. The platform cuts bookkeeping time significantly by embedding AI agents into daily workflows, coordinating tasks across bookkeeping, payroll, and financial statements. This funding will accelerate market consolidation and AI platform rollout across partner firms. | $39.0M | Pre-seed | Fintech | Germany | Motive Partners, Activant, Heliad |
| Sep 10, 26 | Bynario Bynario is a Milan-based startup that has raised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding. The company's AI research has reportedly exposed serious vulnerabilities in Apple products. This funding will likely support further development and commercialization of their security solutions. | $2.3M | Pre-seed | AI | Italy | Undisclosed |
| Sep 10, 26 | Grubel Grubel is a German AI research lab developing systems that adapt to individual legal matters. They have raised €3 million in pre-Seed funding to advance research, product development, and team expansion. The company aims to automate the AI specialization loop for legal cases, addressing the gap where AI has lagged due to the complexity and difficulty of evaluating specialized legal work. | $3.0M | Pre-seed | AI | Germany | Point Nine, Jeff Dean, Chris Ré+3 |
| Sep 09, 26 | Tropicalia Tropicalia was acquired by Strattum in an acqui-hire. This follows Tropicalia's own $3.2M pre-seed funding round. | $3.2M | Pre-seed | Other | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 09, 26 | ARC | $10.5M | Pre-seed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Chimera VC, MIXI Global |
| Sep 09, 26 | Gaia Gaia is a Saudi Arabian startup building a sovereign AI platform that connects enterprise knowledge and workflows without moving data outside the organization. The platform combines enterprise search, generative AI assistants, and purpose-built agents to automate tasks and preserve data governance. The $1.5 million pre-seed funding will support further product development for operational use cases in Saudi Arabia's growing AI market. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | AI | Saudi Arabia | SEEDRA Ventures |
| Sep 08, 26 | Flowt Flowt is a Kenyan fintech company that uses AI to analyze businesses' financial records and convert them into lender-ready data. They focus on expanding lending to small climate-focused businesses that struggle to access traditional bank credit. The company has raised a $550,000 pre-seed round to support its goal of building a $1 million loan book by the end of 2026. | $550K | Pre-seed | Fintech | Kenya | Delta40 Fund I, Impacc, Argidius Foundation |
| Sep 07, 26 | Monava Monava is a Swedish startup founded by Gen Z influencer-founders. The company aims to automate creator marketing end-to-end. This pre-seed funding round was oversubscribed. | $4.3M | Pre-seed | Other | Sweden | Undisclosed |
| Sep 06, 26 | Lumio Solar Lumio Solar raised US$900,000 in pre-seed funding to build a distribution and service network for plug-and-play solar appliances across the Philippines. The company targets households and small businesses with solar fans, lights, freezers, and portable power stations that do not require roof installation or property ownership. The funding will support product range expansion, strengthening regional hubs, and establishing after-sales repair points. | $900K | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Philippines | 100x100 |
| Sep 05, 26 | Fertally Fertally is a Wexford-based fertility tech startup that uses individualised algorithms built from wearable data, indexed against their research database, and shared with clinicians to personalize fertility care. They are planning a €500k funding round later this year to improve upon traditional fertility treatments that rely on population averages. | $500K | Pre-seed | Health | Ireland | Undisclosed |
| Sep 04, 26 | ParlayX ParlayX is an infrastructure startup focused on institutional prediction markets. The company aims to expand its platform integrations and scale operations to meet the growing demand in this sector. | $1.3M | Pre-seed | Crypto | Denmark | Dreamcraft Ventures |
| Sep 04, 26 | Davis Davis is a Paris-based AI-native real estate company that accelerates early-stage development and architectural design. It combines proprietary AI with human expertise to deliver architect-grade outputs in hours and days rather than weeks and months, aiming to reshape how cities are designed and built. | $5.5M | Pre-seed | AI | France | Heartcore Capital, Balderton Capital, Yellow+2 |
| Sep 03, 26 | Souk Souk is a startup that has successfully raised funding to support its early-stage development. The company aims to innovate within its market, although specific details about its offerings are not provided in the article. This pre-seed funding round of USD 1.6 million will help Souk in its initial growth phase. | $1.6M | Pre-seed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 03, 26 | Backbone Backbone is a Belgian startup developing AI solutions for food quality control. The company aims to leverage artificial intelligence to enhance safety and quality standards within the food industry. This pre-seed funding will likely support product development and market entry. | $4.0M | Pre-seed | AI | Belgium | Undisclosed |
| Sep 01, 26 | Visko Visko is an AI research company that specializes in creating Live Models, which are interactive, real-time video generation systems. Their first product, Orbis, streams 4K video and allows users to interact with the content dynamically, setting it apart from traditional video generation methods. | $10.0M | Pre-seed | AI | United States | Llama Ventures |
| Sep 01, 26 | Remedium Remedium is a Saudi startup that has developed an advanced platform to help companies measure, manage, and reduce their carbon footprint through digital technologies and automated data analysis. The company aims to enhance its platform with capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning, focusing on sustainability management and regulatory compliance. | $1.5M | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Saudi Arabia | Kaltaire Investments |
| Sep 01, 26 | Diffraqtion Diffraqtion is a startup focused on quantum computing technology. The company aims to innovate in the field of quantum solutions, attracting significant investment from notable backers. This pre-seed round marks a substantial financial commitment to advance their technology. | $10.0M | Pre-seed | DeepTech | United States | Lockheed Martin, Presidio Ventures |
| Aug 31, 26 | S-Transistors S-Transistors is a Finnish startup focused on developing a new class of integrated circuits based on superconducting transistors. The company aims to create quantum motherboards that enhance the energy efficiency and scalability of cryogenic quantum computers. This funding will help them establish a manufacturing pilot line and develop product prototypes. | $2.8M | Pre-seed | DeepTech | Finland | Lifeline Ventures, angel investor |
| Aug 31, 26 | Atierra Atierra is a startup focused on producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from microalgae. The company aims to address the environmental impact of aviation by providing a renewable alternative to traditional jet fuels. This funding round will help Atierra advance its technology and scale its operations. | $400K | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Japan | Lifetime Ventures |
| Aug 29, 26 | Motion Motion is a Brussels-based company that provides humanoid robots as a service, allowing factories to rent robots instead of purchasing them. The funding will help deploy humanoid-robot pilots and expand their team and fleet, focusing on a monthly service model that includes various operational support. | $2.0M | Pre-seed | Robotics | Belgium | Extantia Capital, Norrsken Evolve |
| Aug 26, 26 | Mara Mara is a counter-drone startup that has developed the Spike portable counter-drone platform. This platform features targeting sensors and small interceptors designed to provide 360-degree coverage against swarms of inexpensive drones, targeting military and security markets. | $7.0M | Pre-seed | DeepTech | United States | Khosla Ventures |
| Aug 26, 26 | os.energy os.energy is a Danish energy startup that has launched a digital electricity provider called Osmund. The company aims to offer transparent electricity pricing without adding a margin, focusing on flexible consumption and smart control of energy resources. | $1.1M | Pre-seed | ClimateTech | Denmark | PSV Tech |
| Aug 25, 26 | Solace Care Solace Care is a Stockholm-based end-of-life platform that helps users put their affairs in order while they still can and guides their families through the practical and emotional work that follows a death. The company aims to redefine personal insurance by providing support beyond just financial payouts, ensuring families receive assistance during difficult times. | $2.3M | Pre-seed | Health | Sweden | Spintop Ventures, Plug and Play, Caroline Farberger+5 |
| Aug 25, 26 | Sume Sume is a developer of an autonomous AI video agent designed for large-scale marketing content creation. The platform allows users to generate thousands of marketing videos efficiently, targeting brands and agencies that require high-volume video output. Notably, Sume achieved a valuation of over $14 million shortly after launching its SUME Agent platform. | over KRW 20 billion (approximately $14 million) | Pre-seed | AI | South Korea | Founders Inc, Kakao Ventures, Futureplay+1 |
| Aug 24, 26 | Automax.ai Automax.ai is a startup that is revolutionizing the home appraisal industry by using AI technology. The company offers a mobile app that allows homeowners to scan their properties and receive appraisal reports in just 24 hours, significantly reducing the traditional process time. This funding round will help Automax.ai expand its services across North America. | $5.0M | Pre-seed | AI | Canada | Undisclosed |
| Aug 24, 26 | Guideless Guideless is an AI-powered software training platform that helps companies replace uneditable screen recordings with AI-narrated videos, creating training guides up to 10x faster and easier. The platform is already in active use by teams at Vinted, Masan Consumer Holdings, and Nevada Hospital Association, and aims to expand into the US, UK, and Europe. | $1.1M | Pre-seed | AI | Lithuania | Superhero Capital, FIRSTPICK VC, Thomas Plantenga+2 |
| Aug 24, 26 | Kazimi Kazimi is a startup focused on addressing bot activity in mobile marketing. The company aims to provide solutions that enhance the integrity of mobile advertising by mitigating fraudulent bot interactions. This funding round will help them develop their technology further. | $2.4M | Pre-seed | Other | Ireland | Undisclosed |
| Aug 23, 26 | AILA AILA is a Saudi EdTech company that provides AI-powered educational solutions. The company raised $3 million in a Pre-Seed funding round to enhance its offerings and expand its reach in the education sector. | $3.0M | Pre-seed | Edtech | Saudi Arabia | Rua Growth Fund, Jo Academ, Global500+2 |
| Aug 18, 26 | Space Space is a US-based startup developing a distributed filesystem that allows users, applications, and AI agents to access large amounts of data without needing to store complete files locally. This innovative approach enables seamless interaction with cloud-hosted files as if they were stored on the user's device, streamlining workflows across various industries. | $2.4M | Pre-seed | Other | United States | a16z Speedrun, Golden Ventures, Northside Ventures |
| Aug 17, 26 | Pouchers Pouchers is a stablecoin-powered payments platform that allows Nigerians to receive, hold, and spend money globally. The platform facilitates international transactions using stablecoin technology, making it easier for users to access global payment solutions. The recent funding will help Pouchers transition from beta to full operations and expand its services. | $500K | Pre-seed | Fintech | Nigeria | Undisclosed |
| Aug 17, 26 | Astute Astute is a startup that has successfully raised over €1.03 million in pre-seed funding. This funding will help the company in its early stages as it develops its offerings and seeks to establish a foothold in its market. | $1.1M | Pre-seed | Undisclosed | Ireland | Undisclosed |
| Aug 14, 26 | Finley Finley is a FinTech startup that provides middle-market companies with insights akin to having a Fortune 500-caliber CFO without the need to hire one. The platform automates routine financial tasks and offers strategic insights into cash positions and capital raising, addressing the unique needs of middle-market businesses. | $1.9M | Pre-seed | Fintech | United States | Cofounders Capital |
| Aug 14, 26 | Alloy Robotics Alloy Robotics is a startup that helps identify the root cause of robots' failures using AI agents and data analysis. It serves various sectors including navigation, defense, and agriculture, and aims to improve robot reliability and performance. The recent funding round will support U.S. expansion and engineering team growth. | $8.0M | Pre-seed | Robotics | United States | Square Peg, Blackbird, Airtree+1 |
| Aug 13, 26 | Lemma Lemma is an AI startup that has developed a monitoring and observability platform to identify silent failures in AI agents. The platform helps companies ensure that their AI agents are not just functioning but also delivering the correct outcomes, addressing a critical need as AI agents are increasingly used in various industries. | $2.3M | Pre-seed | AI | United States | Matrix, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures+5 |
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