One card per firm from a broad public-web scan run on 2026-08-28: 250 Bay Area investors writing pre-seed checks, with each firm's focus, publicly reported initial check size, publicly reported AUM or latest fund, and value beyond money. A blank datapoint means it was not publicly resolved in this scan — not zero, and not "varies." This is what the public web shows; no authoritative complete register of the pre-seed market exists.
Five squares per firm — datapoint publicly found not resolved in scan, in order: focus · check size · capital · value-add · statusamber corner = status unverified, flagged rather than excludedhover any card for the full profile · sorted by profile completeness
The fullest founder-ready profile in the scan is Pear VC — $100K–$2M first checks, confirmed active, and hands-on mentoring plus connections to advisors and follow-on capital — openvc.app
Published initial checks run from $25k at the low end (1414 Ventures, mostly follow) to concentrated $3M–$5M conviction bets (A* Capital) — findfunding.vc, preseedvclist.com
Total capital is rarely disclosed at this stage: the standouts are 500 Global's $2.3B AUM since 2010 and Wireframe Ventures' $77M Fund II — and neither figure is a check size — preseedvclist.com, preseedvclist.com
Value beyond money is where firms differentiate: Mighty Capital opens its 600,000+ member Products That Count buyer network, while SeedSpark's ex-growth-PM partners embed SQL dashboards and A/B testing rigs on day one — ellty.com, priceofbusiness.com
Every firm in the scan
Firm
Focus
Check
Capital · latest fund
Value beyond money
Status
Source
Method: broad public-web search conducted 2026-08-28; 250 rows, one per normalized firm identified as writing pre-seed checks with a Bay Area presence. "Check" is a publicly reported typical initial check; "Capital · latest fund" is publicly reported AUM or latest fund size — the two are never interchangeable. Blank cells mean the datapoint was not publicly resolved in this scan, not zero. "Unverified" status flags firms the scan could not confirm as currently active; none were excluded. Public check sizes, AUM figures and fund announcements are uneven and go stale — confirm directly with each firm before outreach. Long focus descriptions are clamped on cards; the table and tooltips carry them in full.