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Top Seed Stage Startups 2026

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

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $16.4B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Latest company record update Oct 8, 2026

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.

26
Tomo

AI-powered mortgage lender that automates origination to offer lower rates and simpler home buyin...

New York, United States51–200Fintech, Lending
SeedTotal funding$135.0MJun 2026
27
Volantis Semi

Volantis builds photonic wires, optical interconnect inside the accelerator, so AI systems can pl...

United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$129.0MJun 2025
28
Vbot

Chinese humanoid robot AI startup

Beijing, ChinaArtificial Intelligence, Robotics
Pre-seedTotal funding$128.2MMay 2026
29
Honeybee

HoneyBee is an HR financial wellness platform helping employers attract and retain talent through...

Los Angeles, United States11–50Fintech, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$118.7MSep 2021
30
Trase

Trase empowers organizations to deploy secure, governed AI within their own data and infrastructu...

McLean, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
SeedTotal funding$117.5MJun 2026
31
Callosum

AI workload orchestration platform

London, United Kingdom1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$110.3MAug 2026
32
Valinor

Defense and government technology holding company building and acquiring mission-critical product...

Baltimore, United StatesDefense Tech, GovTech
SeedTotal funding$110.0MMar 2026
33
Tribal

Tribal provides corporate cards and B2B payment solutions for startups and SMEs in emerging markets.

San Francisco, United States51–200Fintech
SeedTotal funding$105.5MMay 2026
34
Onboard.io

Onboard.io builds customer onboarding software for B2B SaaS post-sale teams, giving implementatio...

Detroit, United States1–10Productivity, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$104.0MMar 2022
35
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
36
Ethyreal Bio

Biotech developing ETHY-001, a best-in-class anti-TSHR antibody targeting root causes of Graves' ...

San Francisco, United States1–10Biotech, Healthcare
SeedTotal funding$101.0MJun 2026
37
Alys Pharmaceuticals

Alys Pharmaceuticals is an immuno-dermatology company developing treatments for atopic dermatitis...

Biotech, Drug Discovery
SeedTotal funding$100.0MFeb 2024
38
Aspen Energy Partners

Invests in small- to mid-cap oilfield services and technology companies

Arvada, United StatesEnergy, Oil & Gas
SeedTotal funding$100.0MJan 2016
39
Ent

Enterprise cybersecurity platform.

San Francisco, United States1–10Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$100.0MJun 2026
40
Lab1636

Harvard-Deerfield joint translational life science R&D company advancing university innovations t...

New York, United StatesBiotech, Drug Discovery
SeedTotal funding$100.0MMar 2019
41
LMArena

Crowdsourced AI evaluation platform from UC Berkeley researchers where millions of users test and...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$100.0MMay 2025
42
Masterschool

Applied education research lab running AI-native tech career schools that train and place student...

Tel Aviv, Israel51–200Artificial Intelligence, EdTech
SeedTotal funding$100.0MMay 2022
43
Nvelop Therapeutics

Biotechnology company developing programmable delivery systems for in vivo gene editing and thera...

Cambridge, United States51–200Biotech
SeedTotal funding$100.0MApr 2024
44
RadixArk

RadixArk builds open inference and training infrastructure on SGLang and Miles for developers, st...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
SeedTotal funding$100.0MMay 2026
45
Substrate

Building America's next-generation semiconductor foundry using advanced X‑ray lithography to redu...

San Francisco, United States51–200Energy, Hardware
SeedTotal funding$100.0MOct 2025
46
Upwell

Order to Cash Automation for Logistics

San Francisco, United States11–50Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$100.0MJul 2020
47
Teachmint

Teachmint provides AI-powered classroom technology and digital boards that help educators and ins...

Bengaluru, India501–1000SaaS
SeedTotal funding$98.0M
48
Terra Industries

African defense technology startup developing next-generation security systems.

Lagos, Nigeria1–10Defense Tech
SeedTotal funding$92.0MAug 2026
49
Klaytn

Service-centric blockchain platform providing easy development and user-friendly experience

Seoul, South KoreaCrypto & Web3
SeedTotal funding$90.0MMar 2019
50
Sentra

Cloud-native data security posture management (DSPM) platform helping enterprises secure AI adopt...

New York, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
SeedTotal funding$90.0MJan 2026