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The US Micro VC Map🗺️: 600+ Funds Backing Early-Stage Founders💰

The unfair advantage for founders who know where to pitch

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Petar Dimov
Dec 15, 2025
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If you’re raising pre-seed or seed capital, you’re probably making one of two mistakes:

You’re either pitching to mega VCs who won’t look at your round size,

or you’re firing blindly at funds that don’t invest in your sector or stage.

Both are dead ends.

Here’s the reality:

25% of all venture deals in 2025 are pre-seed and seed rounds, and while mega-funds grab headlines, the real capital for early-stage founders flows through micro VCs - smaller, faster-moving funds that write $250K to $2M checks and actually move on founder timeline, not committee timelines.

The problem:

These funds are fragmented across the US, live in specialized networks, and have low public profiles. Most founders never find them, which means founders leave money on the table and micro VCs pass on killer deals they’d have funded instantly.

Until now.

We’ve built a curated database of 600+ verified US micro VC funds that actively invest in pre-seed and seed rounds.

  • Across AI/ML, SaaS, Deep Tech, Healthcare, FinTech, Consumer, and 15+ other sectors

  • Concentrated in founder-friendly regions: California, New York, Massachusetts, plus emerging hubs

Why this changes your fundraising:

Instead of 200 cold email rejections, you pitch 50 micro VCs who actually invest at your stage. Instead of guessing which funds care about your sector, you filter by technology focus. Instead of hoping for warm intros, you’ve got a roadmap to the exact capital that’s checking your boxes.

Median seed valuations are now $15.8M pre-money (up from $13.6M two years ago), which means there’s more capital and conviction in early-stage investing than ever, if you know where to find it.

What you’re getting:

A database built specifically for founders, sorted by stage, sector, and geography, so that you can run targeted.

This is the intel that used to require hiring a fundraising consultant or burning three months on research.

Now it’s yours.

Unlock the database below

Plus get access to 5+ premium resources our paid subscribers use to raise faster.

600+ US Micro VC Funds Database👇

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