What is a seed round?
A seed round is the first formal financing round of a startup, typically raised after initial product validation and before scaling. Seed rounds range from US$500K to US$5 million in the U.S. and US$200K to US$2 million in Türkiye, often structured as priced equity, SAFE or convertible note.
Seed rounds fund the build-out of early team, product-market-fit experiments and initial go-to-market. Seed investors include angel investors, seed funds, accelerator programmes and increasingly multi-stage VCs reserving capital for early bets.