Banyan Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Banyan Ventures is a Seed Stage New York City-based Venture Capital Firm investing in AI-Native Infrastructure and AI-Native Application Startups.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $6.3M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Banyan Ventures invests in
Stages Banyan Ventures invests in
Countries Banyan Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$24M
- Series C
- $102M–$500M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (63%)
- Information Technology 4 (50%)
- Software 3 (38%)
- Semiconductor 3 (38%)
- Mobile 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Series C 2 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Italy 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sam Awrabi
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Inference Hardware | $500M / Series C / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Aravolta provides software that helps data center operators monitor, control, and manage complex infrastructure through a unified platform. The company’s products combine data center infrastructure management, network monitoring, and asset tracking into a single interface to support real-time visibility and operational workflows. Its platformincludes tools for automated alerts, infrastructure planning, compliance reporting, and integration with diverse hardware systems to streamline workflows and visibility across electrical, cooling, and IT assets. Aravolta also offers features such as customizable customer portals and remote monitoring capabilities that enable remote oversight and control of modular or distributed facilities. Its services target colocation providers, cloud operators, and data center managers seeking integrated operational and compliance software solutions. | $5.1M / Seed / Dec 19, 2025 | ||
| We are a fabless integrated circuit design startup on a mission to provide the most energy efficient power amplifier and front-end module products for hardware manufacturers in the 5G mmWave market. One of the biggest challenges for 5G mm-Wave communication is transmitter power and efficiency. In most transceiver designs, power amplifiers (PAs)dominate the overall transmitter efficiency and thermal performance. It is extremely difficult to transmit a signal efficiently over the air at mm-Wave frequencies. To solve this, we developed an ultra-efficient silicon-based power amplifier (PA) topology for 5G mmWave applications called the Dual-Drive PA. For decades, the maximum theoretical efficiency of PAs has been fixed at 78.5%, with most PAs topping out at 40% efficiency. Until now, it was thought to be theoretically impossible to increase the efficiency beyond this figure of 78.5%. Our new, patented technology increases the theoretical maximum efficiency limits of PAs beyond 78.5%; therefore, no other PA can be as efficient as our Dual-Drive PA. Our first prototype was implemented using GlobalFoundries’ 45nm CMOS SOI process and was fully tested and verified. Based on our measurements, our first prototype achieves drain efficiencies that are 20% higher than any state-of-the-art power amplifier in the mmWave frequency range. In addition, our technology was fully verified using the new 5G NR modulation testing standards achieving Gb/s data rates at incredible high efficiency levels. Since PAs dominate the overall transmitter efficiency and thermal performance, our PA technology can be employed by base station, cellphone, and radar manufacturers (to name a few) and decrease their thermal management cost and ease their overall system requirements. | $5.8M / Seed / Oct 06, 2025 | ||
| Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs. | $2.2M / Seed / Mar 11, 2025 | ||
| LLM Inference Hardware | $23.5M / Seed / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Aug 07, 2024 | ||
| Developer of high-performance, low-power artificial intelligence inference systems for data centers, including hyperscalers and neocloud providers. The technology is based on custom silicon, hardware, interconnect, and software integrated into a single AI system capable of running large multimodal models for thousands of users with reduced rackcount, power consumption, and cost. The company focuses on advancing AI R&D into production-grade systems, emphasizing efficiency, safety, and reliability. Operations are headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Munich, Germany, with a distributed team across North America and Europe. | $102M / Series C / Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Ori is building the AI backbone for the future, enabling teams to advance groundbreaking technology. We believe the true potential of AI will be unlocked by how seamlessly teams can access and deploy the infrastructure they need to train, serve, and scale models. As a trusted partner, Ori provides end-to-end AI infrastructure—combining powerfulGPU compute with a flexible software layer that optimizes resources. With Ori, teams can explore, build, and scale AI innovations effortlessly, transforming how software and hardware work together to drive the next wave of AI breakthroughs. | $33M / Convertible Note / Feb 04, 2024 |
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FAQ
What does Banyan Ventures invest in?
Banyan Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Banyan Ventures invest in?
Banyan Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$24M at Seed and $102M–$500M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Banyan Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Banyan Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Banyan Ventures?
The team at Banyan Ventures includes Sam Awrabi (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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