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The Pre-Seed/Seed List: 30+ B2B Founders Raising Now 🚀
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February 11, 2025
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Welcome back! Here’s our new Pre-Seed/Seed list of 30+ early founders with traction looking to meet VCs + angels. 👇 Subscribe here if you were forwarded this email.
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30+ Pre-Seed/Seed Founders Raising👇
1) Circle Health
Founder: Keshav Vasudevan — former Head of Product & Design at Prepared AI (joined at Seed, now a Series B startup backed by a16z and First Round Capital)
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website
Stage: Seed | $5000 ARR, with $20K in pipeline, ~1000 insurance-ready docs created and reviewed, 155+ hours saved for directors and their providers.
Circle Health is an AI-agent to automate quality assurance and insurance audit readiness in patient documentation for insurance-dependent mental health and hospice practices. The platform saves practices 10+ hours per week in documentation overhead while reducing denials and increasing audit-readiness through AI & NLP.
2) Afino AI
Founder: Parshwa Khambhati — Head of Product and employee #1 at multiple venture-backed startups (backed by Bessemer, Primary Venture Partners, and more)
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $1.5M (with $850K raised so far, led by Hyperplane)
Afino offers modern bookkeeping, accounting, and fractional CFO services powered by advanced technology and AI-powered workflow automation. With our first three customers generating $150K+ ARR, we are positioned to scale quickly with new opportunities in the pipeline.
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3) Stateable
Founder: Rich Schaeffer
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Seed
Stateable is a profitable, bootstrapped fintech automating the process of extracting useful data from insurance documents. With $140K ARR, we are focused on scaling and enhancing our services for more impactful data extraction.
4) Vibranium Labs
Founder: Sang Lee
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $4M (with $2M+ raised so far)
Vibranium Labs is building an AI-powered platform to enhance site reliability by proactively monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving infrastructure incidents. With design partners like FiscalNote and FanDuel, we’re seeing significant traction with 100+ waitlists for our solution.
5) Loandock
Founder: Arnav Jha
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $500K (with $80K raised so far)
Loandock is an AI-powered mortgage loan officer helping homebuyers navigate the mortgage process. In just 10 weeks, we’ve onboarded 40 customers generating $17K in ARR, and we’re expanding with a new voice interface to improve user experience.
6) FanFundCard
Founder: Chloe Zhu
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $3M (with half raised)
FanFundCard is revolutionizing fandom commerce by enabling fans to support athletes directly, while offering brands personalized fan experiences. With a community of 50K+ and an impressive founding team, we are poised to scale rapidly in the sports sector.
7) IrisMed
Founder: Han Jing
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $1M (Lead secured, launched with 25 paying customers)
IrisMed is automating the financial workflows for outpatient clinics with AI-driven accounts receivable agents, effectively reducing staffing difficulties. We aim to modernize a $200B legacy market, with early traction from key partnerships and customers.
8) Area
Founder: Roee Gold
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $2.25M (with $1M raised so far)
Area provides a contractor compliance platform that streamlines management and increases scalability for the construction industry. With $300K committed ARR and enterprise partnerships, we are on track for exponential growth, aiming for $960K ARR by 2025.
9) Hyper
Founder: Jeewan Singh
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $1.5M (with $400K committed)
Hyper is redefining financial operations by automating data aggregation, analysis, and reporting for finance teams. With over 50 companies in private beta and a paid annual pilot with an enterprise client, we’re projecting $500K ARR in the coming year.
10) Equiply
Founder: Oscar Torres
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $300K (with $200K raised so far)
Equiply is empowering hospitals to optimize medical equipment spending with an FP&A tool designed for capital planning. With pilot projects launching in February, we’re targeting a $250K ARR by year-end and forging strong partnerships in the healthcare sector.
11) PayWithSoap
Founder: Sam Edelstein
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
PayWithSoap simplifies payment processing for real money gaming operators. With backing from Antler, we are focusing on scaling our platform to support operators in the rapidly evolving gaming space.
12) Buildstash
Founder: Robbie Cargill
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $750K (with $185K previously raised)
Buildstash is a B2B SaaS platform automating the storage, organization, and QA processes for app and game developers. As a Techstars NYC graduate, we are onboarding major game studios and preparing for a pre-seed raise to scale our solution.
13) Autonomic Health
Founder: Sab Kanaujia
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $5M
Autonomic Health is developing an AI model for disease prevention and life extension by continuously monitoring the autonomic nervous system. With notable angel investors from top tech and healthcare industries, we are pioneering new frontiers in health optimization.
14) Zenobia Pay
Founder: Ryan Prendergast
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Pre-Seed | We are prepping for our April launch!
Zenobia Pay enables bank transfers as payments for retailers. With instant bank transfers, we can offer rates 3x cheaper than traditional card rails. For consumers, we integrate merchant loyalty programs directly onto the network.
15) Beauty Right Back
Founder: Odette Yang
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website
Stage: Pre-Seed | Raising $1M Pre-seed
$30k MRR in our first month of launch - Subscription marketplace that enables salons to earn a sustainable, predictable income while providing unlimited, affordable beauty subscriptions to consumers.
16) Maitre D AI
Founder: Brendan Wood
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website
Stage: Seed | 40 restaurants within 6 months of GTM motion. Michelin star and award-winning restaurants and another 50+ in the pipeline.
Raising: a $4M seed starting in February.
Guest communication automation through AI for restaurants. Currently with 40 restaurants and 30K ARR, pilots with two larger hospitality groups that, if we scale up, will be 150K ARR.
17) Gratis Intelligence
Founder: Ayan Roy
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Seed
Raising: $2M seed round to expand existing projects.
Existing projects with Diageo, Heineken, and Jim Beam/Suntory ($43k MRR). $600k in soft-circled commitments in place. Previously raised $400k upon launch in Spring '24, including participation from Forum Ventures and executives from Constellation Brands and Toast POS.
18) Accelno
Founder: Fynn Schwichtenberg
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $500K
Accelno is automating financial modeling and market research to empower businesses with deeper, faster insights. With our innovative platform, we are streamlining the process to drive more efficient decision-making for companies.
19) Aleoop
Founder: Meghan Scanlon
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $400K on a SAFE, with $30K secured so far, to scale product development, marketing, and go-to-market efforts.
Aleoop is an AI-powered platform that transforms seller feedback into a revenue roadmap, helping teams unblock high-value deals, build better products, and prioritize the right go-to-market investments.
20) OrderSpark
Founder: Alex Geana
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website
Stage: Pre-Seed | 3,000+ brands on the waitlist, $399 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), $19,536 in Lifetime Revenue, Raised $300K to date
Raising: $1M in Pre-Seed funding.
OrderSpark is a frictionless SaaS platform that empowers American brands to easily build online stores and connect directly with U.S.-based manufacturers.
21) Ollie Health
Founder: Marc Gregory Knowles
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website
Stage: Seed | $800K Raised
Raising: $2.5M, $400K secured.
AI Mental Health Platform. 50K MRR. 180+ B2B Customers. 18 Countries.
22) Nomad Data
Founder: Brad Schneider
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Seed | 50 customers, $4.5M raised
Raising: $2M now for their Seed round
Nomad Data is a software platform for companies to discover and manage external data assets to power their business.
23) Pacer
Founder: Yousif Memon
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Seed
Raising: $409K raised so far; 500 users on platform.
Pacer is leveraging AI to revolutionize dealership operations, enabling faster, smarter, and more profitable transactions.
24) StockLift
Founder: Brendan Sweeney
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $600K. We have commitments for $100K from Rick Berry (Co-Founder of Demandforce, which was acquired by Intuit for $400M) and Marty Wilhite, former COO and General Counsel at Legendary Entertainment.
StockLift is an embedded investment portfolio analysis API to help financial institutions with underwriting and marketing.
25) Penrose
Founder: Kenneth Lam
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Seed
We have received strong testimonials and are in discussions for LOIs with industry leaders and major transportation agencies. Additionally, we are negotiating a potential $100K ARR service contract. Penrose leverages purpose-built Vertical AI Agents to eliminate delays caused by inefficient, labor-intensive, and resource-wasting schedule updates and reviews.
26) Eden Labs
Founder: Sofia Assab
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: We've raised $400K to date, with a $500K commitment and we're raising $2M using a SAFE.
Eden Labs simplifies the complicated systems companies need for products with multiple databases and endpoints.
27) Cogensus
Founder: Hall Wang
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: Target of $2M with $1M already raised from an Angel.
Cogensus offers conversation-based analytics to provide healthcare payers and providers proactive elder cognitive health insights. Traction: 8x LOIs, including from healthcare enterprises, a national healthcare payer, and distribution partners.
28) Integral Health
Founder: MJ Chey
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Seed
Raising: $3M
Integral Health is a value-based behavioral health provider building "Jarvis" for healthcare. They are currently in due diligence with healthcare-focused VCs and raising $3M to scale their operations.
29) Interior Shuffle
Founder: Asfandyar Khan
LinkedIn | Website
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $1M
Interior Shuffle is revolutionizing real estate and design with cutting-edge AI and AR technology, offering virtual staging and AR catalogs for realtors, furniture stores, and interior designers. They are raising $1M to scale and expand the platform, with early commitments from angel investors.
30) KeySquare Technologies
Founder: Tiffany Hu
LinkedIn | Website | Pitch Deck
Email: [email protected]
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raising: $1M (with 50% committed)
KeySquare is revolutionizing the $130T+ Fixed Income market with next-gen automated trading technology. The platform addresses critical pain points for investment banks by leveraging high-performance trading architecture and AI to maximize trading efficiency and profitability.
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