Full Name

Sam Awrabi

Job Title

Founder

Company

Banyan Ventures

Speaker Bio

Sam Awrabi is the Founder and Managing Director of Banyan Ventures, a venture firm backing escape velocity AI-native infrastructure and hardware startups. In the past sixteen months, Banyan’s early-stage investments have generated over $463M in revenue. Before Banyan, Sam was the first technical sales hire in the $3B+ experiment and model management market. As a global revenue leader he helped scale the category from fewer than ten customers to over 4,000, working with customers like Porsche, Uber, and JPMorgan. He’s advised 20+ AI infrastructure startups that have raised over $1B in capital and currently serves on the advisory boards of FlexAI, Akash Systems, and Finalis.