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Banyan Ventures
New York, United States
Banyan Ventures is a New York‑based pre‑seed VC focused on AI‑native infrastructure and application startups. It backs founders at the idea stage, leveraging deep technical and go‑to‑market expertise to select and accele...
Portfolio
15+
Employees
10+
Founded
2023
AUM
≈ $17.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise Software
Geographic scope
United States
Fund details
Funds
AI Fund I
Vintage 2025 • $10.0M
Sources
Banyan Ventures
Banyan Ventures is a New York‑based pre‑seed VC focused on AI‑native infrastructure and application startups. It backs founders at the idea stage, leveraging deep technical and go‑to‑market expertise to select and accelerate breakthrough AI technologies.
Portfolio
15+
Employees
10+
Founded
2023
AUM
≈ $17.0M
Funds
AI Fund I · Vintage 2025 • $10.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise Software
Geographic scope
United States
Sources
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The startup develops radio frequency power amplifiers and communications technology specifically for the aviation and aerospace sectors, focusing on minimizing waste heat generation. This technology enables clients to achieve a tighter thermal envelope, resulting in lower launch costs and improved communication access.
AnalogAI develops neuromorphic semiconductor technology utilizing analog in-memory computing (AIMC) for AI hardware acceleration. This approach enables simultaneous training and inference of AI models at significantly higher speeds than conventional methods. The resulting chips support real-time, on-device AI applications like autonomous navigation and offline language translation.
Bbb Tech provides an Algorithm Discovery Platform that uses cultured living neurons as a computational substrate to transform electrical representations of arbitrary data into richer, higher‑dimensional embeddings. By integrating biological neural tissue into AI pipelines, the platform enables continuous, low‑overhead inference with long‑term memory, real‑time adaptation, and pattern‑completion capabilities for research and development of post‑transformer models.
Falcomm develops energy-efficient solid-state power amplifiers and integrated front-end modules for the wireless communication market, utilizing proprietary dual-drive™ technology. This innovation reduces the need for frequent device charging and lowers operational costs for telecommunications and satellite companies.
Funding: $4.1M
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Funding: $4.1M
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Finalis provides a regulatory and back-office platform that enables private securities brokerages to manage compliance and streamline deal workflows efficiently. By offering tools for compliance review, secure transaction processing, and collaboration, Finalis helps firms close deals faster while adhering to legal requirements.
IrisMed provides an optical sales engine that instantly deciphers complex vision insurance benefits for eyecare practices. This platform enables staff to generate accurate, upfront out-of-pocket cost quotes for frames and lenses, minimizing billing errors. By highlighting coverage opportunities, IrisMed helps practices maximize revenue capture during the patient checkout process.
Funding: $370.0K
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Funding: $370.0K
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Langbase provides a serverless platform for developers to build, deploy, and scale AI agents and workflows. It offers unified APIs for LLMs, integrated memory for RAG, and tools for orchestrating multi-step agentic processes. This infrastructure simplifies the creation of production-ready AI applications with built-in tracing and evaluation capabilities.
Lexroom provides an artificial intelligence platform specifically built for legal professionals to enhance workflow efficiency. The system supports legal research, document analysis, and accurate clause drafting, ensuring all outputs are verified and citable. It integrates a private library feature allowing secure searching within a firm's proprietary documents while maintaining data segregation.
Funding: $69.8M
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FNDX VCVento
FNDX VCVento
Funding: $69.8M
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Multimodal provides AgentFlow, an enterprise‑grade agentic AI platform for finance and insurance that automates complex, document‑heavy workflows such as loan underwriting, compliance filing, and insurance underwriting. The platform combines specialized AI agents for unstructured data extraction, document classification, database enrichment, policy‑based decisioning, and report generation, delivering explainable, audit‑ready outcomes that accelerate processing by up to 80% while preserving regulatory traceability.
Funding: $100.0K
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Dropbox Ventures
Dropbox Ventures
Funding: $100.0K
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Ori provides on-demand access to top-tier GPUs and serverless Kubernetes for training and deploying machine learning models at scale. The platform offers cost-optimized solutions that allow users to pay only for the resources they utilize, addressing the need for flexible and efficient AI infrastructure.
Funding: $148.8M
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Funding: $148.8M
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Positron develops purpose-built hardware systems specifically designed to accelerate Transformer Model Inference. These systems offer superior performance per dollar and performance per watt compared to existing solutions like NVIDIA. The platform seamlessly supports any trained HuggingFace Transformers Library model for efficient deployment via an OpenAI API-compliant endpoint.
Funding: $22.5M
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Funding: $22.5M
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This local SEO software provides small businesses and agencies with tools for daily rank tracking, Google Business Profile optimization, and review management. The platform uses precise data from Google Search and Maps to help users improve local search rankings and gain a competitive advantage. It automates reporting and offers AI content generation to streamline local marketing efforts.
Funding: $2.7M
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Funding: $2.7M
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Recogni develops a multimodal AI inference system utilizing its proprietary Pareto AI Math to enhance performance while significantly reducing power consumption. This technology addresses the high costs and energy demands of generative AI models, enabling efficient and accurate processing for data centers.
Funding: $176.1M
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Funding: $176.1M
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SpiNNcloud provides ultra energy-efficient computing infrastructure specifically optimized for next-generation AI inference workloads. Their brain-inspired chip architecture leverages dynamic sparsity to achieve significantly higher energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. This infrastructure enables scalable, low-power AI processing necessary to address growing GenAI energy demands.
Funding: $590.0K
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VentureOut
VentureOut
Funding: $590.0K
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