The Pre-Seed Investor Map: 100+ Active Funds Writing Checks Under $1M 🗺️

Exclusive Database: 100+ Most Active Pre-Seed Stage VC Investors

Here’s the brutal statistic founders refuse to acknowledge:

Only 3% of pre-seed applications get funded.

Meanwhile, across angel networks and platforms like Dealum, just 2% of applicants end up in investor portfolios, taking a median of 37 days from application to first check.

Compare this to Series A (8.3%) and Series B (12.6%), and the pattern is clear: pre-seed is a founder’s steepest climb.

But here’s what founders miss:

It’s not that capital doesn’t exist - Q1 2025 saw $1.2 billion in pre-seed funding.

It’s that founders target the wrong 10 investors, missing 100+ active pre-seed specialists who write checks consistently.

The fund-size mismatch is the silent killer.

Most investors maintain a 1-2% check size of total AUM - meaning a $100M fund writes $1-2M checks, while a $50M fund writes $500K-$1M.

Yet founders pitch their $300K raise to mega-funds optimized for $5M+ checks.

Result?

Rejected.

Not because the idea is weak, because you’re asking the wrong investor to do something outside their model.

The data on investor selectivity is humbling.

Top-tier VCs review 1-in-400 deals (0.25% funding rate); angel investors use the 1-in-40 rule (check this Quora post about this rule by David S. Rose - founder of Gust and one of the world’s most active angels).

But within that 1-in-40, angels and specialized pre-seed funds are far more targeted, seeking technical founders, defined problem spaces, and clear capital efficiency.

Here’s the insight founders rarely act on:

If you target 100 pre-seed investors aligned with your fund size + sector + geography, and you pitch 20-30 with personalization, you’re statistically far more likely to land meetings than pitching 100 random names.

The math shifts from 2% to 10-15% conversion when precision matters.

The 100+ Pre-Seed VC Database Includes:

Firm Name

Detailed Description (what they invest, thesis, check sizes)
Location
Portfolio Companies (signal of sector/founder fit)
Website, Crunchbase Profile
and more!

Filter by fund size.

Match your raise.

Land 10x more meetings.

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