Banyan Venture Partners

Banyan Ventures is a New York, New York–based pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023 that focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies built with artificial intelligence at their core, particularly AI-native infrastructure and application startups; the firm is led by founder and general partner Sam Awrabi, deploys capital typically in early financings with checks suited to pre-seed/seed needs, and engages with founders to support product development and scaling in emerging AI-driven markets.