Seed round
A seed round is a startup's first significant round of outside equity funding, used to build an initial product, hire a small team, and find product-market fit before raising a larger Series A.
The seed round is usually the earliest priced or convertible funding a company raises from outside investors, after any friends-and-family or pre-seed money. The capital is meant to get the company from an idea or prototype to early traction: a working product, the first hires, and enough evidence of demand to justify a larger round.
Seed rounds are typically led by angel investors, seed-stage venture funds, or accelerators, and are often structured as a priced equity round or via instruments like a SAFE or convertible note. Sizes vary widely by market and sector, but a seed round is generally smaller than the Series A that tends to follow it.
For go-to-market and investment teams, a seed round is an early intent signal: it marks a company that has just been validated by investors and is about to start spending on hiring, tooling, and growth.
Seed rounds appear in the funding-events feed with round set to 'seed', the amount raised, the participating investors (entity-resolved), the announcement date, and the sources that reported it. Pull them from GET /v1/funding-events.
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