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Top Pre-Seed Startups 2026

Private companies whose latest recorded round was pre-seed, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $2.0B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised

Use company data through the API.
Example request
curl "https://indexed.vc/api/v1/companies?operatingStatus=active&sort=total_funding_raised&order=desc&limit=100" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

The API has no funding stage filter, so this includes every stage, not only Pre-Seed.

The API has no company type filter, so public companies can appear; this list counts private companies only.

The API cannot leave out companies whose latest round is a grant, private equity or debt financing; this list does.

Data from Indexed.vcUpdated

Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant, Private Equity, Debt Financing are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

1
Fair

Fair offers flexible vehicle service contracts that protect drivers from expensive mechanical and...

San Francisco, United States11–50Insurtech, Automotive
Pre-seedTotal funding$486.4MAug 2024
2
Vbot

Chinese humanoid robot AI startup

Beijing, ChinaArtificial Intelligence, Robotics
Pre-seedTotal funding$128.2MMay 2026
3
Paratus Sciences

Biotech company using bat genomics and informatics to discover and develop novel therapeutics for...

New York, United States11–50Biotech, Life Sciences
Pre-seedTotal funding$102.5MJul 2025
4
Orbital

Orbital brings real estate expertise and AI technology together to help legal and property teams ...

London, United Kingdom51–200Artificial Intelligence, Legal Tech
Pre-seedTotal funding$75.8MJun 2026
5
Airship

Mobile-first customer experience platform delivering AI-powered cross-channel experiences includi...

Portland, United States201–500Marketing Tech, SaaS
Pre-seedTotal funding$71.6MSep 2024
6
Kora

Integrated Co-Farming company that focuses on empowering farmers through post-harvesting technology

Lagos, Singapore11–50Industrials
Pre-seedTotal funding$32.7MJan 2019
7
Asaak

Asaak invests in Africa's small and medium enterprise community, equipping business owners to pur...

Kampala, Malaysia51–200Lending, Fintech
Pre-seedTotal funding$31.5MJan 2022
8
Price Lab

Price Lab uses AI to optimize pricing while monitoring and analyzing competitors’ online prices f...

Lima, Peru1–10Retail, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-seedTotal funding$30.4MJan 2024
9
Enact Intelligence

Enact Intelligence develops robotic systems for industrial tasks, combining model architectures, ...

Zurich, Switzerland
Pre-seedTotal funding$30.0MOct 2026
10
Turno

Turno leases commercial EVs and repurposes their batteries as energy storage, using battery intel...

Bengaluru, India51–200Automotive, Electric Vehicles
Pre-seedTotal funding$28.4MJan 2025
11
American Housing

Vertically integrated Austin homebuilder that buys land, designs modular row homes, manufactures ...

Austin, United States11–50Industrials
Pre-seedTotal funding$27.3MNov 2024
12
Arrenda

Arrenda is a Mexico City-based fintech offering revenue-based financing that lets landlords in La...

Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, MexicoFinancial Services, Fintech
Pre-seedTotal funding$26.5MJul 2022
13
Cable

Automated testing platform that continuously validates financial crime controls for banks, fintec...

San Francisco, United States11–50Fintech, SaaS
Pre-seedTotal funding$24.3MMay 2026
14
Skyline Robotics

Skyline Robotics develops automated robotic window-cleaning solutions that modernize facade maint...

United States11–50Construction Tech, Robotics
Pre-seedTotal funding$22.6MDec 2023
15
Mondego Bio

Developing best-in-class PTPN2 inhibitors to advance breakthrough cancer immunotherapies with imp...

Cantanhede, Portugal11–50Biotech, Oncology
Pre-seedTotal funding$22.3MSep 2025
16
SiliconFlow

AI infrastructure platform offering fast, cost-efficient APIs for deploying and running 200+ opti...

Beijing, China51–200Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Pre-seedTotal funding$20.8MFeb 2025
17
Blink Last Mile

Outsourced last-mile delivery solution covering warehousing, labor, systems, and linehaul transpo...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates11–50E-Commerce
Pre-seedTotal funding$20.1M
18
Nifty Island

Gameverse open to user generated content

United States11–50Crypto & Web3
Pre-seedTotal funding$20.0MOct 2021
19
Wabi AI

AI-powered personal software platform enabling anyone to create and share custom mini apps via na...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Pre-seedTotal funding$20.0MNov 2025
20
BioSapien Inc.

BioSapien develops localized drug delivery platforms for oncology, including a biodegradable impl...

San Diego, United States1–10Biotech, Healthcare
Pre-seedTotal funding$19.6MJan 2025
21
Elastics

AI prediction market agents platform for quantitative trading.

Warsaw, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Fintech
Pre-seedTotal funding$19.0MMay 2026
22
Equip

Equip develops technology that makes people aware of financial choices they can and must make, re...

Amsterdam, NetherlandsFintech
Pre-seedTotal funding$19.0MMay 2023
23
Penguin Securities Holdings

Singapore-based fintech platform

Singapore, SingaporeFintech
Pre-seedTotal funding$18.7MFeb 2026
24
Aeon

Aeon delivers unmatched precision in early detection and empowers individuals to monitor and impr...

Zurich, Switzerland11–50Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Pre-seedTotal funding$17.4MMay 2026
25
Salient Motion

Salient Motion designs and manufactures modular actuation systems for commercial aviation and def...

Torrance, United States11–50Aerospace, Defense Tech
Pre-seedTotal funding$16.0MOct 2024