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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments


No company capitalizes the AI ​​Revolution dramatically than Nvidia. Its earnings, profitability and cash reserves have been opening the sky since the introduction of ChatGP two years ago – and many competitive generators AI services launched since then. Its share prices have increased, it has created $ 4.5 trillion dollars market cap company.

The world’s top high-performer GPU maker uses its ballooning fate, especially to increase investment in startups in AI.

Nvidia has taken part in 50 Ventures Capital Deals According to the pitchbook data, in 2025 still, the company already completed by 2024 has surpassed 48 deals. Note that these investments exclude its formal corporate VC funds, navenchers, which increase its investment speed significantly during that period. (Pitchbook says that the Neatchers appointed to 21 Agreements this year compared to 2022.)

Nvidia Said The goal of his corporate investment is to expand the AI ​​ecosystem to “Game Changer and Market Manufacturers” to expand the startups that are considered as “market manufacturers”.

Below is a list of startups that raised more than $ 1 million from 2023 to a renowned participant, which organized the highest to the maximum to the highest in the round.

This list shows that Nvidia has spread its tents in the technology industry, beyond its product supply.

Billion dollar round club

OpenAI: Nvidia supported the Chatzept manufacturer for the first time in October 2021, writing a 100 million dollar check as part of a huge $ 6.6 billion round, which paid for the company’s price for $ 157 billion. Other supporters of the Chipmeaker’s investment Openai have dwarf, have achieved significantly success, which invested $ 1.5 billion in the New York Times. Although pitchbook data indicates that Nvidia did not participate in the $ 5 billion funds in OPENY, which was closed in March, Chipmekar announced in September that it would invest in September $ 100 Billion Over time in the company, strategic partnership is strategic to deploy huge AI infrastructure.

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Jai: In 2024, Openai tried to persuade his investors not Invest in any of the rivals of itThe However, Nvidia participated in the billion billion dollars of Elon Mask’s Jai’s Billion Billion last December. Nvidia will also invest $ 2 billion Bloomberg, a planned billion of 20 billion funds, says Bloomberg is a structural agreement to help Jike buy more Nvidia gear.

Mistral AI: Nvidia has invested in Myster for the third time when the French-based large language model developer is evaluated by the € 1.7 billion (about $ 2 billion) series C € 1.7 billion ($ 1.8 billion) after evaluation of money. SeptemberThe

Reflection AII: In October, the Nvidia led a Round $ 2 billion in funding For the reflection AI, one year old startup, the company is priced at $ 8 billion. Reflecting AI is itself as a US-based competitor in the Chinese DIPC, whose open-source is a large language model OpenAI and anthropologists provide a small expensive alternative to close-source models from companies.

Thinking machine lab: Nvidia investors were in a long list of former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Meera Murarati’s thoughts supporting the $ 2 billion seed round in the machine lab. The officially announced in July, the new AI startup is worth $ 12 billion.

Reflect: One of the first notable AI investments in Nvidia was one of the more unusual (but growing general) results. In June 2021, Nvidia Inflation was one of the several top investors in the $ 1.5 billion round, a co-founder of Dipmind’s renowned founder Mostafa Sulaiman. Later less than a year later, Microsoft appointed the founder of Inflation, providing $ 620 million for a non-explusive technology license, leaving the company with a significantly reduced workforce and a less defined future.

Enscale: After startup Round of $ 1.1 billion In September, Nvidia participated in the NSCL $ 433 million secure Funds in October. It is an agreement that secures future equity for investors. The Australian cryptocurrency mining company is building a data center in the United Kingdom and Norway formed in the UK and Norway after the exit from Akorn Energy. OpenaiThe

Wave: In May 2024, NVDIA participated in a $ 1.05 billion round for UK-based startup, which is developing a self-education system for autonomous driving. The startup is expected to invest $ 500 million in the Nvidia Wave, the startup told TechCrunch in September. Wave is examining its vehicles in the UK and San Francisco Bay area.

Figure AI: In September, the Nvidia image participated in the AI’s series Sea Funding Round more than $ 1 billion, which priced $ 39 billion to Humanoid Robotics startup. Chipmecker first invested in the figure in February 2024 when the company evaluated $ 675 million Series B Round $ 2.6 billion in $ 2.6 billion.

Scale AI: In May 2024, Axel and other Tech Giants joined the Amazon and Meta to invest $ 1 billion in the NVDia Scale AI, which provided the data-lacebeling service to the training of AI models. The round is worth about $ 14 billion in San Francisco -based company. In June, Meta has invested $ 14.3 billion for a 49% scale, and the company’s co-founder and CEO Alexandra Wang, as well as several other original scale employees.

Multi-Million Dollar Club

Commonwealth Fusion: Chipmekar participated in the $ 863 million fund of the $ 863 million startup in August 2021. The deal also included investors like Google and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the company is worth $ 3 billion.

Cruso: A Startup Building Data Center Report According to SEC filing, Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI to raise $ 686 million in November 2024. The investment was operated by the Founding Fund and other investors were included in the long list of Nvidia.

United: Chipmeaker Enterprise Large Language Model has invested multiple funds across the Round Model Provider Quoe, which closed in August, made the core valuable at $ 6.8 billion. Nvidia first supported the Toronto-based startup in 2023.

Confusion: Nvidia first invested in confusion in November 2023 and most of the next funds of the AI ​​search engine startup participated in the round round, including $ 500 million rounds closed in December 2024. The Chipmeaker participated in the company’s July Fund Round, which has considered this confusion worth $ 18 billion. However, Nvidia did not add $ 200 million to the next $ 200 million fund in September, which has promoted the company’s evaluation to $ 20 billion according to the pitchbook data.

Pulside: In October 2024, the AII Coding Assistant Startup Pullide has announced that it has collected $ 500 million led by Bain Capital Venture. Nvidia participated in the round, which gave AI startup worth $ 3 billion.

Lambda: AI Cloud Suppliers Lambda, which provides service for model training, has raised an 80 480 million series d At a report Evaluation of $ 2.5 billion In February. The round was co-operated by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda and joined Nvidia, Ork Invest and others. A significant part of the lamber business involves renting a server powered by NVidia GPU.

Corewive: Although the Corwive is no longer a startup, it was still when a public company, the NVDia GPU-Megh supplier, was still on April 2023 that Nvidia remained an important shareholder.

AI together: In February, Nvidia participated in $ 305 million series b This organization, which provides cloud-based infrastructure to create AI models. The round was priced at $ 3.3 billion and the co-operative of Saudi Arabia’s zealous organization and General Catalist, prosperity 7. Nvidia supported the company for the first time in 2023.

Pharmas Technologies: In September, the Singapore -based data center agency Pharmas Technologies adopted A 330 million dollars (Approximately $ 215 million) for funding at A $ 1.85 billion ($ 1.2 billion US $) to evaluate from investors with NVDIA. The Pharmas Australia Islands is developing a power-south ‘AI factory’ in Tasmania. The startup originally provides cooling technology for Bitcoin mining.

Sakana i: In September 2024, Nvidia invest in The Japan-based startup, which trains small-price generator AI models using small datasets. Startup has raised a huge series of about $ 214 million in evaluation of $ 1.5 billion.

Light: In August, the Nvidia participated in the $ 203 million funds to focus on delivery for self-driving startup. This agreement has considered Nuro worth billion billions of dollars, it has evaluated a significant 30% decrease in the top 2021 in 2021.

Imbue: AI research lab that Nvidia, Astra Institute and former Cruise CEO CEO Kyle Vogue claimed to develop AI systems that could raise $ 200 million rounds in September 2021.

Wabi: In June 2021, the autonomous trucking startup has extended a 200 million dollar series B Round, co-leading the existing investor Uber and Khosla Ventures. Other investors include Nvidia, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Porsche Automobil Holding SE.

Deal over a 100 million dollar

Ayer Labs: In December, Nvidia has invested Round of $ 155 million I -Labs, a Optical interconnection agencies to improve AI calculations and energy efficiency. This is the third time Nvidia supported the startup.

Core.E: The startup-developer Enterprise-centric AI Chatbotts collected $ 1 million in December 2021. In addition to NVDIA, the investors participating in the funds included FTV Capital, Vistara Growth and Sweetwater Private Equity.

Sandbox AQ: In April, Nvidia, Google, BNP has invested as well as others $ 150 million In the sandbox acud, a startup develops a large quantitative model (LQMS) to manage complex numerical analysis and statistics count. The investment has raised the Sandbox AQU series E Round to $ 450 million and company evaluation to $ 5.75 billion.

Hippocratic AI: This startup, which is developing large -scale language models for healthcare, announced in January that it has raised a $ 1.64 billion series B in the assessment of $ 1.64 billion led by Claine Parkins. Nvidia returned investor Andresen Harovits, General Catalists and others participated in this round. The company has claimed that its AI solutions can conduct non-diagnostic patients such as pre-operating methods, remote patient monitoring and appointment preparation.

Wika: In May 2024, the NVDIA AI-Native Data Management invested in $ 140 million rounds for Wacker Wacker. The round is worth $ 1.6 billion in the Silicon Valley company.

Runway: In April, Nvidia participated in the $ 308 million round of the runway, which was led by General Atlantic and generator AI models for media production according to pitchbook were valuable for starting AI models of $ 3.55 billion. Chipmekar investor since 2023.

Bright machine: In June 2024, Nvidia took part in one 6 126 million series c Bright machines, a smart robotics and AI-powered software startup.

Enfabica: In September, 2021, NVidia Networking Chips Designer Enfabrika invested in $ 125 million series B, although Startup collected $ 115 million in November, Nvidia did not participate in the round.

Rocka AI: In July, an AI research lab rake, raised $ 110 million In a round where snoflek and nvidia were included. The contract has increased threefold to evaluate the startup More than $ 1 billionAccording to Bloomberg.

This post was first published in January 2025.

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