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Sam Awrabi

Founder and Managing Director of Banyan Ventures

New York, New York

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder & Managing Director

    2023

    Banyan Ventures is a pre-seed & seed New York City-based venture capital firm. We back founders who defy the odds & change our world as we know it. We believe AI-native technology will be the defining innovation of our lifetime, driving humanity to achieve unprecedented advancements. We exclusively invest in AI-native companies—those built with AI at their core from inception—because we see this as the key to unlocking value far beyond previous technological revolutions like electricity, computing, and the web.

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2025

2025

  • Advisory Board Member

    2025

  • Seed Investor

    2025

  • Advisory Board Member

    2025

  • Investor

    2024

2025

  • Advisory Board Member

    2025

  • Investor

    2025

  • Seed Investor

    2025

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Pre-seed investor

  • Investor

    2024

    Pre-Seed: first money in, first ever financing

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Growth investor