Pre-seed investors
Pre-seed is the stage where the investor is underwriting the founder rather than the numbers, because there usually are no numbers yet. That changes what a cold email has to accomplish: it has to establish that you are a credible person to bet on before it establishes that the market is large.
How to read these numbers: 1,000+ of the 5,000+ active investors in the database (20.7%) state an investment stage at all — most describe the sectors they fund and not the stage. The percentage above is therefore a share of those who said, not of every investor. Stages also overlap, because an investor writing “seed to Series A” is counted under both, so shares across all stages add up to more than 100%. No cheque-size figure is published anywhere on this page: cheque size is recorded for too few investors to report honestly.
How to approach this stage
The most common pre-seed mistake in cold outreach is leading with market size. A $40bn TAM slide does not separate you from anyone, because every deck has one. What separates you is a specific reason you in particular will find the wedge — prior operating experience in the problem space, an unusual technical asset, or early users you already got without paying for them.
Expect a much wider range of cheque behaviour than at any later stage. Some funds tagged pre-seed here write institutional first cheques; others are effectively angel syndicates. Because SendVC records a cheque size for only a small minority of investors, that variation is not something this page can quantify — so treat pre-seed as a stage label rather than a cheque-size guarantee, and confirm the fund’s actual entry point from its own site before you tailor an ask to it.
Pre-seed investors move faster than later-stage funds and often decide without a formal partner meeting. That makes volume genuinely useful here in a way it stops being at Series A: a wider first pass costs you little and surfaces the small number of investors whose thesis actually overlaps yours.
What else these investors tag themselves
Other stages listed by the same investors. A high overlap means the tag is a range rather than a fixed entry point, and that you should not exclude these investors when targeting an adjacent stage.
- Seed
- Early-stage
- Series A
- Growth
- Series B+
What they fund
Sector focus areas most common among investors at this stage. Stage labels are excluded, so this is what they invest in rather than when.
- Tech
- AI
- Generalist
- Fintech
- B2B SaaS
- SaaS
- FinTech
- Technology
Where they are based
- San Francisco
- Singapore
- Zurich
- London
- Chicago
- Toronto
See which investors these are
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