Banyan the first venture capital firm designed for the AI Native Era.

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Where AI can meet its potential and infrastructure can be the backbone, not the blocker.

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One out of three of our investments is the first money in at Pre-Seed. Many of our partnerships begin at the idea stage, often with just our shared experiences as guides. We focus on AI-native infrastructure in new categories, partnering selectively, caring deeply, and striving for excellence. Discover our approach to building strong, impactful partnerships.

I am a product of starting at the ground floor of the AI infrastructure space in 2018 where I was the first sales hire at MissingLink.ai.

When I joined, we had two customers: Aidoc and Nanit. After closing dozens of customers at MissingLink and I joined Comet.ml as the 6th employee and scaled the company from a low customer count to over 450.

I saw an entire MLOps space go from less than 10 paying customers to over 4,000. On that journey I leared how the enterprise like Uber and Netflix buy and build AI infrastructure, and how a AI Infrastructure  market go’s from early to late adoption. On this journey I met thousands of founders building with AI for six years straight.

I saw what worked and what did not when starting and scaling a AI product. I saw many companies fail and some succeed. I also built lifelong connections with thousands of data scientists, founders, venture capitalists, and operators who have collectively brought AI to fruition as we know it today.

There is no shortcut for the knowledge and wisdom gained from my experience; this is what has powers Banyan and has guided me on seeding the next generation of AI-native infrastructure that will transform our society.

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221%

average rev growth per quarter after investment

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average rev growth six months after investment

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new markets created from investing

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"Sam is an excellent partner to our efforts at
Deeptrust. He is the only investor we have come across who will roll his sleeves up, jump on sales calls, and help with deals and GTM strategy that moves the needle. He is always available to support us with the most important parts of the business and we consider a top 1% investor in terms of support provided."

Aman Ibrahim

CEO @Deeptrust
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"Sam is one of the few investors that I have come across that is a true GTM expert for early stage infra startups. He is our fractional CRO and his guidance has proven Invaluable to us at the most critical stages of our growth."

Ahmad Awais

CEO @Langbase
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