Pre-Seed Venture Capital Firms

A regional specialist fund investing in UK-founded automotive startups with a strong tech and insurance component.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $500K – $1.5M
• Manchester, UK
• 1 portfolio company

UM6P Ventures supports transformative startups solving Africa's largest challenges, with a clear focus on B2B marketplaces and logistics-based innovation.

• Marketplace
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $50K – $200K
• Ben Guerir, Morocco
• 2 portfolio companies

Africa-focused investor targeting transportation and tech-enabled urban mobility startups at pre-seed stages.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $150K – $750K
• Cape Town, South Africa
• 1 portfolio company

Focused on startups building exceptional tools for technical and enterprise users, emphasizing product simplicity and utility.

• Developer Tools
• SaaS
• Enterprise

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $1.5M
• Toronto, Canada
• 2 portfolio companies

Ubiquity Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed technical founders building "software beyond the screen": B2B hardware-software integration, machine learning/physical AI, and real-world platforms that ...

• SaaS
• AI / ML
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $1.0M – $3.0M
• Palo Alto, California, United States
• 37 portfolio companies

Focused on tech startups empowering Africa's large informal and freelance workforce through innovations in software and gig economy solutions.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $50K – $300K
• Lagos, Nigeria
• 2 portfolio companies

Ulu Ventures is a seed-stage US VC firm that invests in software & internet startups—especially enterprise software, fintech, edtech, future of work, digital health and sustainability—with a preferenc...

• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $2.0M
• Palo Alto, California, United States
• 3 portfolio companies

Focused on decentralized finance and blockchain technologies that disrupt traditional financial services.

• Other
• Fintech

• Pre-Seed
• $250K – $2.0M
• San Francisco, CA
• 1 portfolio company

Invests in blockchain startups solving real-world challenges in payments and settlements, with a geographic focus on emerging markets including Africa.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $20K – $300K
• Singapore
• 2 portfolio companies

Invests in early-stage software infrastructure and developer-first tools, enabling platform efficiency for modern B2B ecosystems.

• SaaS
• Developer Tools
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $300K – $1.0M
• Toronto, Canada
• 2 portfolio companies

Unboxed Ventures specializes in early-stage investments exclusively in developer-first SaaS companies enhancing productivity and automation.

• Developer Tools
• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.0M
• Austin, TX
• 1 portfolio company

Backing startups unbundling large enterprise services into scalable, lightweight SaaS solutions.

• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $50K – $300K
• San Francisco, CA
• 8 portfolio companies

Focused exclusively on pre-seed B2B SaaS startups solving operational inefficiencies using innovative software solutions.

• SaaS

• Pre-Seed
• $1.0M – $3.0M
• San Francisco, CA
• 2 portfolio companies

Focuses exclusively on SaaS startups with recurring revenue models creating operational efficiencies.

• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $750K
• Chicago, IL
• 2 portfolio companies

Invests in early-stage companies enhancing personal productivity and relationships using innovative SaaS-driven approaches.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $200K – $1.0M
• Los Angeles, CA
• 2 portfolio companies

Invests at pre-seed & seed stages in scalable technology startups across the Nordics and wider Europe, with impact (environmental or social) core to the product, and an explicit diversity/inclusion ma...

• AI / ML
• Developer Tools
• Other

• Pre-Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• Copenhagen, Denmark
• 5 portfolio companies

Uncork invests primarily at the seed stage in AI and emerging-technology companies across B2B applications, developer tools and infrastructure, consumer and marketplaces, and frontier tech/hardware. I...

• SaaS
• AI / ML
• Enterprise

• Seed, Pre-Seed
• $3.0M – $5.0M
• San Francisco, California, United States
• 12 portfolio companies

Uncorrelated Ventures invests in infrastructure software and hardware.

• SaaS
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $300K – $2.0M
• San Francisco, United States
• 192 portfolio companies

Uncovered Fund backs African startups solving problems in commerce, retail, and technology with scalable models.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.0M
• Tokyo, Japan
• 2 portfolio companies

Backing founders creating tools that foster collaboration and human connection.

• Other
• SaaS

• Pre-Seed
• $15K – $100K
• Vancouver, BC
• 1 portfolio company

Invests in underestimated founders building impactful software products, with emphasis on B2B and SaaS.

• SaaS
• Other
• Enterprise

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $100K – $1.5M
• Denver, CO
• 2 portfolio companies

Early-stage investor in technical B2B startups, including applied AI and workflow software.

• SaaS
• AI / ML
• Enterprise

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.5M
• New York, NY
• 2 portfolio companies

Underwrite Labs specializes in investing in early-stage startups innovating across underwriting, credit decisioning, and lending workflows, with a keen interest in AI and automation.

• Fintech
• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $500K – $2.0M
• Austin, TX
• 2 portfolio companies

Undeterred Capital backs startups at the intersection of aerospace, energy storage, and mission-critical hardware technologies.

• Other

• Pre-Seed, Seed
• $250K – $1.3M
• Austin, TX
• 26 portfolio companies