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Prelude: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Prelude is advancing SMS verification and mobile onboarding infrastructure through a set of unified APIs developers might actually like. We’re dedicated to more reliable fraud detection, elegant transparency, and increased reliability– all at a better price. Make every ping count for your customer experience, not your bill.

prelude.so LinkedIn Paris, France 11-50 employees
Messaging SMS Software B2B
Total raised
$28.0M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series A
May 2026

Prelude has raised $28.0M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series A of $20.0M announced in May 2026.

That round is above the $6.0M median round size for Information Technology companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Prelude Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$28.0M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Series A
$20.0M in May 2026
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Paris, France

Latest funding round on record: May 2026.

Prelude Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$20.0M
Seed
$8.0M

Prelude raised $8.0M in a Seed announced in Nov 2024.

1.5 years later, a Series A of $20.0M was announced in May 2026.

Prelude Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Matias Berny
Founder
Locked
Michael E Murphy
Founder

Contact details for the Prelude team: 1 has a LinkedIn profile.

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Prelude Funding Compared to Other Information Technology Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,705
$6.7M
8,352
$15M

Prelude's latest round of $20.0M is above the median round in Information Technology. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Prelude Funding FAQs

What does Prelude do?

Prelude is advancing SMS verification and mobile onboarding infrastructure through a set of unified APIs developers might actually like. We’re dedicated to more reliable fraud detection, elegant transparency, and increased reliability– all at a better price. Make every ping count for your customer experience, not your bill.

How much funding has Prelude raised?

Prelude has raised $28.0M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series A of $20.0M announced in May 2026.

When did Prelude last raise funding?

Prelude's most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $20.0M, announced in May 2026.

Who founded Prelude?

FundedIQ lists Matias Berny (Founder), Michael E Murphy (Founder) at Prelude.

Where is Prelude headquartered?

Prelude is based in Paris, Ile-De-France, France.

How many employees does Prelude have?

Prelude is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does Prelude's funding compare to other Information Technology startups?

Prelude's latest round of $20.0M is above the $6.0M median round size for Information Technology companies on FundedIQ across 3,144 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Prelude Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Prelude is left off this page rather than filled in.

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