Banyan Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$1.5M Checks)
Banyan Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in AI / ML, Enterprise, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.5M checks and has 23 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 23 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Enterprise, Healthcare, Developer Tools, Consumer, Other
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-07
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.5M
23+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Banyan Ventures is an AI-native venture firm backing pre-seed and seed startups in infrastructure and applications. It is useful for technical founders seeking an early specialist with strong AI fluency.
How Banyan Ventures invests
Banyan Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Enterprise, Healthcare, Developer Tools, Consumer.
Banyan Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.5M per investment.
Banyan Ventures has backed 23 companies in our records, including Domain Drop Icon AI, Silicon Chip AI, GPU AI.
Partners & Team
Sam Awrabi was the first sales hire in the two billion dollar experiment & model management market & has advised over 15 AI infrastructure companies in the past 8 years. He founded Banyan Ventures to back crucial AI infrastructure companies, with early investments showing promising trajectories.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (23)
Other
Domain Drop Icon AI
Silicon Chip AI
GPU AI
Logarithmic Math
Instant workflow automations
Gen-AI native middle office automations
AI-Powered Medical Billing Automation
Akash Systems
builds the most thermally conductive material in the world for GPU’s and space.
AI-Native Transformer Based Inference Chip
The fastest growing investment bank in history
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Enterprise, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Sam Awrabi, Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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