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Top Pre-seed companies

Companies that have raised friends-and-family or pre-seed capital.

Ranked by current headcount across Pre-seed companies. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Apple· Cupertino, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 170.8k employees
    • Founded 1976
  2. 2
    Bandhan Bank· Rajarhat, West Bengal, India
    • Pre-seed
    • 35.2k employees
  3. 3
    University of California, Berkeley· Berkeley, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 24.1k employees
    • Founded 2012
  4. 4
    Monash University· Victoria Point, Queensland, Australia
    • Pre-seed
    • 21.3k employees
    • Founded 2015
  5. 5
    Team for the Planet· Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Pre-seed
    • 19.6k employees
    • Founded 2019
  6. 6
    Spotify· Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
    • Pre-seed
    • 18.5k employees
    • Founded 2006
  7. 7
    Gi Group· Milan, Lombardy, Italy
    • Pre-seed
    • 17.1k employees
    • Founded 1998
  8. 8
    Alkem Laboratories Ltd.· Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Pre-seed
    • 15.8k employees
    • Founded 1973
  9. 9
    Café (YC S21)· New York, New York, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 12k employees
    • Founded 2020
  10. 10
    Evri· Morley, England, United Kingdom
    • Pre-seed
    • 11.2k employees
    • Founded 1974
  11. 11
    Blue Dart· Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Pre-seed
    • 10.3k employees
    • Founded 1983
  12. 12
    UNIQA Insurance Group· Gerasdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
    • Pre-seed
    • 8.1k employees
  13. 13
    Texas Department Of Criminal Justice· Huntsville, Texas, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 7.6k employees
    • Founded 2024
  14. 14
    Université de Sherbrooke· Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
    • Pre-seed
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 1954
  15. 15
    Suburbia· Cuajimalpa de Morelos, Mexico City, Mexico
    • Pre-seed
    • 5.8k employees
    • Founded 2015
  16. 16
    The American University in Cairo· Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
    • Pre-seed
    • 5.5k employees
    • Founded 1919
  17. 17
    Kia America· Irvine, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 4.4k employees
    • Founded 1994
  18. 18
    IPS-Integrated Project Services· Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.8k employees
    • Founded 1989
  19. 19
    Al Majal Al Arabi Group | مجموعة المجال العربي· Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.7k employees
    • Founded 1991
  20. 20
    Top Glove· Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.7k employees
    • Founded 1991
  21. 21
    DAS· Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.6k employees
    • Founded 1963
  22. 22
    WOM Chile· Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.6k employees
    • Founded 2015
  23. 23
    Telecare Corporation· Alameda, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.3k employees
    • Founded 1965
  24. 24
    Bilkent University· Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.2k employees
    • Founded 2024
  25. 25
    Confidencial.io· Menlo Park, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 3.2k employees
    • Founded 2021

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How this list is built

Refolk pulled the largest companies whose latest disclosed funding round is Pre-seed from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 06:55:48 GMT

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