Sam Awrabi
Founder and General Partner of Banyan Ventures
Sam Awrabi
Founder and General Partner of Banyan Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2023 - Current
Banyan Ventures is a pre-seed New York City-based venture capital firm. Our seed and pre-seed investments have generated over $100M of revenue. We back founders who defy the odds. We believe AI-native technology will be the defining force 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.
Investor
2024
Seed: first money in, first ever financing
Investor
2024
Pre-seed: first money in
Langbase is the composable AI Developer platform helping developers build, deploy, and ship AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).
Investor
2024
Seed investor
Reimagine productivity with collaborative AI. Give every employee an infinitely scalable team of specialized AI agents.
Raised $10,000,000.00.
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.
Investor
2024
Seed investor
Investor
2024
Pre-seed: first money in
Instant private workflow automations
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Mark Shaw, Bradley Milne, Prashant Sharma, Everywhere Ventures, Tokyo Black, Data Tech Fund, John Lyman, Mitesh Agrawal, Banyan Ventures and Half Court Ventures.
Head of Sales
2020 - 2022
6th employee. Built global revenue organization from zero to twenty employees. Raised 70M. Grew Comet.ml's customer base to 150. Won the enterprise segment Cisco, Uber, Affirm, Etsy, Shipt, Netflix, Ancestry.com, and Shopify.
Comet allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Raised $69,800,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners, OpenView and Two Sigma Ventures.
Head of Inside Sales
2020 - 2020
Manager, Sales
2018 - 2020
Enterprise Account Executive
2018 - 2018
First sales hire in the two-billion-dollar experiment tracking and model management category. Started selling MissingLink.ai when we had two customers. Saw an entire AI infrastructure category go from less than 20 customers to over two thousand.
Samsung NEXT invests in transformative seed-stage software and services startups.
Account Executive
2017 - 2018
Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Raised $65,299,999.00 from Founders Fund, Western Technology Investment, Glynn Capital Management, Revolution Ventures, Polaris Partners and Cisco.