Pre-Seed Venture Capital Firms

Multi-stage firm with a long track record of seed investing in software and internet companies.

• SaaS
• Consumer
• Fintech

• Seed, Pre-Seed
• $500K – $5.0M
• New York, NY
• 12 portfolio companies

Enterprise software specialist investors backing market-defining B2B platforms, often from earliest stages.

• Enterprise
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
• $500K – $5.0M
• Menlo Park, CA
• 13 portfolio companies

Supports innovative companies transforming energy and power grid systems.

• Climate / Energy
• Other
• Real Estate

• Seed, Pre-Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• Chicago, IL
• 16 portfolio companies

Investing in scalable energy storage solutions for impactful grid integration and reliability.

• Other
• Climate / Energy

• Pre-Seed
• $100K – $250K
• Nairobi, Kenya
• 2 portfolio companies

Gridline Ventures focuses on investing in technical founders building DeFi and blockchain ecosystems for enterprise use cases.

• Other
• Fintech

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $2.0M
• Boston, MA
• 1 portfolio company

Emerging micro-fund focused on scrappy early-stage founders building in major verticals, including property-related SaaS and operational infrastructure.

• SaaS
• Fintech
• Real Estate

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $500K
• New York, New York
• 34 portfolio companies

Early-stage fund focusing on innovative developer tools and B2B SaaS.

• Developer Tools
• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed
• $25K – $250K
• San Francisco, CA
• 17 portfolio companies

Focused on investments that bridge agriculture and technology, targeting vertical SaaS and distribution innovations in the food sector.

• Other
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $1.0M – $3.0M
• Hunt Valley, MD
• 1 portfolio company

Sector-specific fund backing food and grocery delivery innovations at early stages.

• Other
• Food / AgTech
• Consumer

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $500K
• San Francisco, USA
• 1 portfolio company

Early-stage investor backing founders from the ground up, with a focus on pre-seed and seed.

• Other
• Enterprise
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $1.0M
• New York, NY
• 24 portfolio companies

GroundBreak’s current Home Innovation Fund backs early-stage technologies across the building value chain that address barriers to housing delivery and affordability, including how homes are financed,...

• Real Estate
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• Toronto, Canada
• 1 portfolio company

Focused exclusively on PropTech innovations, targeting startups with solutions for real estate developers and community-based property strategies.

• Real Estate
• Other
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $2.0M
• Austin, TX
• 1 portfolio company

Groundwork Ventures focuses on early-stage startups transforming agriculture and food systems, with emphasis on regional food commerce and innovative marketplaces.

• Food / AgTech
• Marketplace

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• Kansas City, MO
• 2 portfolio companies

Focused on early-stage investments in precision agriculture technologies, including AI-powered systems for crop management, controlled-environment agriculture, and high-value crops like cannabis.

• Food / AgTech
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $200K – $2.0M
• Des Moines, IA
• 2 portfolio companies

Focusing on technologies that streamline enterprise training and sales processes.

• Other
• Enterprise
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed
• $200K – $800K
• New York, NY
• 1 portfolio company

Investing in startups reshaping enterprise recruitment and creating talent marketplaces that drive cost and process efficiencies.

• Other
• Marketplace
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $500K
• London, UK
• 2 portfolio companies

GWC invests at Seed and Series A in enterprise & industrial AI/automation software, backing operator founders solving real workflows, building data moats, and aiming for profitability.

• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $1.0M – $5.0M
• San Francisco, California, United States
• 1 portfolio company

GrowthGraph Capital invests in platforms that leverage intent-driven and analytics-based strategies to improve digital advertising and B2B customer acquisition.

• Other
• SaaS
• Developer Tools

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $2.0M
• New York, NY
• 2 portfolio companies

Focuses on early-stage B2B SaaS startups leveraging AI to scale SMBs, with a specific focus on sales and marketing automation tools.

• Other
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $75K – $250K
• Austin, TX
• 2 portfolio companies

GrowthX Seed Fund invests in technical founding teams creating category-defining SaaS solutions for underserved enterprise functions, with a focus on fast-tracking growth.

• SaaS
• Other
• Enterprise

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $500K – $4.0M
• Nashville, United States
• 8 portfolio companies

Invests in early-stage security technology and government tech solutions.

• Other
• Security
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed
• $50K – $250K
• Austin, TX
• 13 portfolio companies

Focuses on early-stage global financial infrastructure, including SaaS platforms for capital markets.

• SaaS
• Other
• Fintech

• Seed, Pre-Seed
• $250K – $2.0M
• Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• 8 portfolio companies

Guild Capital backs startups in the HR Tech, Recruitment, and AI spaces with a focus on transformative platforms enhancing operational efficiency.

• Other
• AI / ML

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• Chicago, IL
• 2 portfolio companies

Regional fund focused on startups solving real-world infrastructure and liability challenges in Gulf Coast states.

• Other
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $500K – $2.0M
• Tampa, Florida
• 1 portfolio company