pre-seed funding

AI & Tech

Space raises $2.4M for AI-native filesystem to replace hard drives

Space is a San Francisco startup exiting stealth with $2.4 million in pre-seed funding from a16z Speedrun and others, offering…

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AI & Tech

How to win pre-seed funding with conviction and storytelling

AI startups are absorbing a large share of seed funding, forcing pre-seed founders to meet seed-stage expectations, even without a…

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AI & Tech

Geek Ventures raises larger fund for immigrant-focused startup bets

Geek Ventures is raising its second fund ($25-40M target) to write larger checks ($500K-$800K initial) and take lead investor roles…

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AI & Tech

ShopAgentic raises €1.9M for AI shopping agent infrastructure

German startup ShopAgentic raised €1.9 million in pre-seed funding from May Ventures and Greenfield Capital to build infrastructure for AI…

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AI & Tech

Rotomate raises €2.1M to bring reliability AI to every factory

Rotomate, a Finnish industrial AI startup, raised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its platform that interprets machine data…

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AI & Tech

Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it

Avrea, a Helsinki-based startup founded by Aiven co-founder Hannu Valtonen and Nosto co-founder Juha Valvanne, has raised $4.7 million in…

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Real-estate dev startup Davis raises $5.5M to shrink timelines from months to days

Davis, an AI-native startup co-founded by two Entrepreneurs First alumni, secured $5.5 million in pre-seed funding from Heartcore and Balderton…

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Atech secures pre-seed funding from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable

Atech, a Copenhagen-based startup, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from investors including Nordic Makers, Emblem, Lovable, and the Sequoia…

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AI & Tech

College founders raise $5.1M for AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking platform built entirely within iMessage, raised $5.1 million in pre-seed funding from notable investors including Venmo…

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Artificial Intelligence

Bucharest’s eYou Secures €300K Pre-Seed Funding

eYou, a new social media platform from Bucharest, has secured €300,000 in pre-seed funding to combat misinformation and algorithmic opacity,…

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Artificial Intelligence

Mutable Tactics Secures €1.8M Pre-Seed Funding

Mutable Tactics secured €1.8 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI platform enabling autonomous drone teams to operate collaboratively…

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Artificial Intelligence

Outpost Bio Secures $3.5M Pre-Seed Funding

Outpost Bio has secured $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop its integrated experimental and AI platform for studying the…

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AI & Tech

Allonic: Rebuilding Robotics from the Inside Out

Allonic secured a record $7.2 million pre-seed round in Hungary, signaling a potential shift in European investment toward funding complex…

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Empromptu Secures $2M to Power Enterprise AI App Development

Empromptu is a new platform that enables business owners, including non-technical users, to transform AI concepts into functional enterprise software…

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Artificial Intelligence

Wabi, the ‘YouTube of Apps,’ Raises $20M Pre-Seed Funding

Wabi has raised $20 million in pre-seed funding to democratize software creation, enabling users to build and share mini apps…

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Business

Charles Hudson Reveals What Investors Look For at TC All Stage

Early-stage founders often overlook subtle signals investors analyze, such as co-founder dynamics and fundraising discipline, which can make or break…

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Business

PlaySafe ID Secures $1.12M to Boost Trust in Gaming Communities

PlaySafe ID secured $1.12 million in pre-seed funding to combat cheating and predatory behavior in online games, aiming to foster…

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