Seed-stage startups: what the stage means and who raised a seed round recently
What makes a startup seed stage, how seed differs from pre-seed and Series A, and the seed-stage startups that announced a round in the last 90 days, with every amount linked to its source, by industry and accelerator.
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A seed-stage startup has raised, or is raising, its first institutional round: the money that takes it from a product and early users to the traction a Series A investor expects. On November 2, 2026, Recent Funding listed 8528 seed-stage companies and 3538 at pre-seed; for 3056 of the seed companies the latest round has an amount linked to its source.
Pre-seed, seed and Series A
- Pre-seed is the first money in, often from the founders, angels or an accelerator, sometimes before there is a product.
- Seed funds the first team, the search for product-market fit and early revenue. It is usually led by a seed fund or an angel syndicate, increasingly by larger funds too.
- Series A comes once there is repeatable traction, and is priced on it.
The labels are not strict: 2026 seed rounds range from well under a million dollars to rounds larger than many Series As. Recent Funding records the stage the announcement uses rather than inferring it from the amount.
| Stage | Companies | With a sourced amount | Of those, crypto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 3538 | 747 | 42 |
| Seed | 8528 | 3056 | 156 |
Seed rounds announced in the last 90 days
Since August 4, 2026, 599 seed-stage startups announced a round with a linked amount. The 25 newest:
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Unify Foodworks | food-agriculture | seed | $526.8K | retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com | |
| 2 | ai | seed | $10.93M | wowtale.net | ||
| 3 | ai-agents | seed | $7M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 4 | robotics-hardware | seed | $130M | theinformation.com | ||
| 5 | fintech | seed | $17M | tech.eu | ||
| 6 |  Jingshuo Technology | ai | seed | $10.51M | sohu.com | |
| 7 | bio-health | seed | $10.5M | tech.eu | ||
| 8 | ai | seed | $10M | globenewswire.com | ||
| 9 | bio-health | seed | $4M | citybiz.co | ||
| 10 | energy-climate | seed | $3.16M | prtimes.jp | ||
| 11 | defi | seed | $1.41M | markets.businessinsider.com | ||
| 12 | bio-health | seed | $1.2M | finsmes.com | ||
| 13 | ecommerce-retail | seed | $270.8K | entrackr.com | ||
| 14 | robotics-hardware | seed | $20M | finance.yahoo.com | ||
| 15 | robotics-hardware | seed | $12.5M | bloomberg.com | ||
| 16 | fintech | seed | $4M | natlawreview.com | ||
| 17 | gaming | seed | $3.15M | indianretailer.com | ||
| 18 | ecommerce-retail | seed | $3M | citybiz.co | ||
| 19 | ai | seed | $2.31M | hk.marketscreener.com | ||
| 20 | ai | seed | $1.3M | finsmes.com | ||
| 21 | energy-climate | seed | $1.05M | innovation-village.com | ||
| 22 | robotics-hardware | seed | $40M | tech.eu | ||
| 23 |  Atlas Bio | bio-health | seed | $12.5M | tech.eu | |
| 24 | proptech | seed | $6.5M | tech.eu | ||
| 25 | ai | seed | $5M | app.dealroom.co |
Every seed round, updated daily, is on seed-stage startups. For the largest seed rounds of the year, see the largest seed and pre-seed rounds. Check very large seed amounts at the source: an announcement sometimes gives a total across rounds, or a valuation.
What seed-stage startups are building
All seed-stage companies on Recent Funding, by industry:
| Industry | Companies |
|---|---|
| ai | 2283 |
| bio-health | 1001 |
| robotics-hardware | 559 |
| consumer-social | 433 |
| fintech | 414 |
| infra-devtools | 354 |
| energy-climate | 340 |
| enterprise-software | 306 |
| ecommerce-retail | 270 |
| security-privacy | 231 |
| payments-stablecoins | 222 |
| data-analytics | 210 |
| food-agriculture | 204 |
| logistics-mobility | 203 |
| defi | 192 |
| ai-agents | 187 |
| media-marketing | 171 |
| proptech | 159 |
| other | 152 |
| gaming | 143 |
| hr-work | 119 |
| edtech | 118 |
| trading-markets | 93 |
| insurtech | 64 |
| legal-gov | 38 |
| defense | 29 |
| crypto-infra | 7 |
| crypto-gaming | 3 |
2105 of them came through an accelerator, including 598 from Y Combinator, 790 from 500 Global and 205 from Plug and Play. Their founders are on founders, and recently funded startup founders breaks them down by team size and title.
Get this data
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?stage=seed&sort=announced&limit=2"Every parameter is in the API docs.
Related on Recent Funding
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- Recently funded startups, updated daily
- Money flow: raises, acquisitions and new funds
- Stealth startups
- Pre-seed funding: what it is, how startups raise it, and who raised in 2026
- Startup lead generation: recently funded startups as sales leads
- Stealth startup founders: who is building in stealth, and how to find them
- Recent Funding API docs: every endpoint behind this post; a free API key takes just an email