Sam Awrabi

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

Investor

2024

Seed investor

Investor

2024

Growth investor

Investor

2024

Seed investor

Investor

2024

Pre-seed: first money in

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.

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.

Account Executive

2017 - 2018