Sam Awrabi
Founder and General Partner of Banyan Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Director
2023 - Current
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
Advisory Board Member
2025
Seed Investor
2025
Advisory Board Member
2025
Investor
2024
Akash Systems is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of communications gear for space satellites.
Raised $17,600,000.00 from Embedded Ventures.
Advisory Board Member
2025
Investor
2025
Seed Investor
2025
Investor
2024
Pre-seed investor
Investor
2024
Pre-Seed: first money in, first ever financing
Investor
2024
Growth investor
Recogni is a system solution company that specializes in the design of high-performance, low-power AI inferencing
Raised $176,050,000.00 from Pledge Ventures, Juniper Networks, BMW i Ventures, TASARU Mobility Investments, DNS Capital, Banyan Ventures, Celesta Capital, Mayfield Fund and GreatPoint Ventures.