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

No company has benefited from the artificial intelligence revolution greatly from NVIDIA. Its revenues, profitability, and cash reserves have increased since the introduction of ChatGPT more than two years ago – and many competitive artificial intelligence services that have been launched since then. The price of his share increased.

During this period, the world’s leading GPU GPU, the leading company, used its enlarged fortunes to significantly increase investments in all types of startups, but especially in startups.

Chip Giant increased capital activity in 2024, and participated in 49 funding rounds for artificial intelligence companies, an sharp increase of 34 in 2023, according to Pitchbok data. It is a dramatic increase in investment compared to the previous four years combined, during which NVIDIA funded only 38 Amnesty International deals. Note that these investments exclude those made through the official VC Fund, which has also increased significantly from their investment in the past two years. (Pitchbook says NVNtures says in 24 deals in 2024, compared to only 2 in 2022.)

In 2025, NVIDIA has already participated in seven rounds.

NVIDIA stated that the goal of investing companies is to expand the ecosystem of Amnesty International by supporting startups that are considered “changing games and market makers.”

Below is a list of startups that sparked over $ 100 million, as NVIDIA has been a protected participant since 2023, including the new ones that have supported them so far in 2025, which were organized from the highest level to the lowest level in the tour.

A billion -dollar round club

Openai: NVIDIA ChatGPT made for the first time in October, and according to what was written a $ 100 million check towards a huge tour of $ 6.6 billion, the company estimated at $ 157 billion. The chip maker was dwarfed by other supporters in Openai, especially Thrive, which, according to the New York Times, invested $ 1.3 billion.

xi: NVIDIA participated in a $ 6 billion round of Xai. The deal revealed that not all Openai investors have followed its request to refrain from supporting any of its direct competitors. After investing in the Chatgpt maker in October, NVIDIA joined the XAI CAP table after a few months.

flexion: One of the first investments of artificial intelligence in NVIDIA also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, NVIDIA was one of many major investors in a 1.3 billion dollars, a company founded by Mustafa Suleiman, which was established earlier Dibmond. Less than a year later, Microsoft rented the founders of reflection intelligence, and paid $ 620 million for a non -exclusive technology license, leaving the company with a largely diminishing workforce and a less specific future.

Road: In May, NVIDIA participated in a $ 1.05 billion tour to start operating in the United Kingdom, which is developing an autonomous system for independent leadership. The company tests its cars in the United Kingdom and the San Francisco Bay area.

Amnesty International scale: In May 2024, NVIDIA joined ACCEL and other Amazon and Meta technology giants to invest a billion dollars of artificial intelligence, which provides data brand services for companies to train artificial intelligence models. The tour of San Francisco is estimated at about $ 14 billion.

Many hundreds of millions of millions

Crusoe: According to the start -up construction data centers to Oracle, Microsoft and Openai, at a value of $ 686 million in late November, according to the SEC report. The investment led the Founders Fund, and included the long list of other investors NVIDIA.

Figure AI: In February 2024, AI Robotics series Blast Bire of $ 675 million from NVIDIA, Openai Startup Fund, Microsoft, and others. The tour is estimated at $ 2.6 billion.

Bad artificial intelligence: NVIDIA in Mistral invested for the second time when the great linguistic developer headquartered by the French B series B at a value of $ 6 billion in June.

Lamda: The AI ​​Cloud Lambda provider, which provides model training services, raised $ 480 million with a value of $ 2.5 billion in February. The tour was made by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda, joined by NVIDIA, Ark Invest and others. An important portion of Lambda includes renting servers supported by NVIDIA graphics units.

cohere: In June, NVIDIA invested on a $ 500 million COHERE tour, a large provider of the language model. Supporting the chips maker first starting in Toronto in 2023.

Perfume: NVIDIA invested for the first time in confusion in November 2023 and participated in every subsequent round of starting the artificial intelligence search engine, including a $ 500 million round in December, which is estimated at $ 9 billion, according to Pitchbook data.

Besides the pool: In October, and Amnesty International The startup assistant in coding announced that it raised $ 500 million led by Bain Capital Ventures. NVIDIA participated in the tour, whose value of artificial intelligence is estimated at $ 3 billion.

Corve: NVIDIA invested in the provider of the cloud computing of Amnesty International in April 2023, when Coreave raised $ 221 million of financing. Since then, Coreweave’s evaluation has jumped from about $ 2 billion to $ 19 billion, and the company has asked for a public subscription. Coreove allows its customers to rent NVIDIA graphics units a clock.

Together, Amnesty International: In February, NVIDIA participated in the B series of $ 305 million from this company, which offers cloud -based infrastructure to build artificial intelligence models. The tour is estimated at $ 3.3 billion, led by Prosperity7, a Saudi adventure company, and General Catalyst. NVIDIA supported the company for the first time in 2023.

Sakana AI: In September, NVIDIA invested in the Japan -based startup, which trains the low -cost AI Generative models using small data collections. The startup raised a huge round of the series A, amounting to about $ 214 million, with a rate of $ 1.5 billion.

Imbue: Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory He claims to be developing artificial intelligence systems that can cause 200 million dollars in September 2023, including NVIDIA, ASTERA Institute, and former CEO Kyle Vogt.

Wabi: In June, the self - truck transport raised a $ 200 million tour by the current investors Uber and Khosla Ventures. Among the other investors are NVIDIA, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Porsche Automobil Holding SE.

Deit deals exceeding 100 million dollars

Ayar Labs: In December, NVIDIA invested on Ayar Labs’s tour of $ 155 million, The company develops visual interconnection to improve artificial intelligence account and energy efficiency. This was the third time that NVIDIA supported startup.

Kore.ai: AI Chatbots, which focuses on institutions that focus on institutions, collected $ 150 million in December 2023. In addition to NVIDIA, investors included the FTV Capital, Vistara Growth and Sweetwateer Private.

Hibocratic Ai: This young man, who is developing large language care models for health care, announced in January that it raised a series B at a value of $ 141 million with a rate of $ 1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins. NVIDIA participated in the tour, along with returning investors, Andressen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others. The company claims that artificial intelligence solutions can deal with non -diagnostic tasks facing the patient, such as pre -procedures for employment, remote monitoring of the patient, and preparing appointments.

Wica: In May, NVIDIA was invested in a $ 140 million tour of the original data management platform. The Silicon Valley company is estimated at $ 1.6 billion.

The runway: In June 2023, Runway, which is AI to start AI to start the creators of multimedia content, is a $ 141 million extension of investors, including NVIDIA, Google and Salesforce.

Shining machines: In June 2024, NVIDIA participated in the Machines chain of category C at a value of $ 126 million, Smart Robotics, and starting the AI-Ei programs.

Enfabrica: In September 2023, NVIDIA invested in the EFABRICA network networks of $ 125 million B. Although the startup raised another $ 115 million in November, NVIDIA did not participate in the tour.

Editor’s note: The previous version of this story is mentioned incorrectly that NVIDIA is a supporter of safe super games and an investor in the E Vace Data series. NVIDIA has not invested in wide data since the company D.