No company has capitalized the AI revolution in a more dramatic way in Nvidia. His restitution, profitability and cash reserves rose to the stars from the introduction of chatgpt over two years ago – and the numerous artificial intelligence services of the competition that have launched sincere. And its actions price has risen.
During that period, the main high -performance GPU manufacturer in the world used its hot air balloon fortunes to significantly include investments in all startup spells but in particular in startups.
The chip giant raped its risk capital activity in 2024, participating in 49 rounds of financing for artificial intelligence companies, a strong increase compared to 34 of 2023, according to PitchBook data. It is a dramatic increase in investments compared to the previous years of the oven combined, during which Nvidia financed only 38 artificial intelligence agreements. Note that these investments have excluded those made from its formal corporate VC Fund, Nventures, which also reported its information on investments in the last two years. (Pitchbook says that Nentures hired in 24 agreements in 2024, compared to only 2 of 2022.)
In 2025, Nvidia has already participated in seven rounds.
Nvidia Ha Stat The fact that the goal of its company investments is to expand the artificial intelligence ecosystem by supporting the startups that consider “the Cambiavalute and market makers”.
Below is a list of startups that have collected rounds greater than $ 100 million in which Nvidia is a participant appointed since 2023, included new new ones who supported so far in 2025, organized by the highest love for the lowest collected in the round.
The Club of billions of dollars
Openi: Nvidia supported the chatgpt manufacturer for the first time in October, writing to A check of $ 100 million Towards a colossal $ 6.6 billion round that evaluated the company at $ 157 billion. The investment of the chipmaker was diminished by the other supporters of Openai, in particular Thrive, who agrees at the New York Times has invested $ 1.3 billion.
XAI: Nvidia participated in the $ 6 billion XAI of Elon Musk. The agreement revealed that not all Openi investors Followed his request refrain from supporting one of its direct competitors. After investing in the maker chatgpt in Octuber, Nvidia joined the XAI table table A few months later.
Infection: One of the first investments in AI of Nvidia also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, Nvidia was one of the numerous main investors in infections $ 1.3 billion Round, a company founded by Mustafa Suleyman, who previously founded Deepmind. Less than a year later, Microsoft has taken on the founders of infection A, Paying $ 620 million For a non -exclusive technological license, society with a workforce significantly decreases and a less defined future.
Wayve: In May, Nvidia participated in a file $ 1.05 billion round For the startup based in the United Kingdom, which is developing a self -learning system for autonomous driving. The company is testing its vehicles in the United Kingdom and in the Bay of San Francisco.
Scale ai: In May 2024, Nvidia joined ACEL and other giants of Amazon technology and destination in Investtt $ 1 billion In Scala Ai, which provides for data labeling services for companies for the training of artificial intelligence models. The round has evaluated the company based in San Francisco at almost $ 14 billion.
The club of many billion dollars
Crusoe: A startup that builds Data Center According to reports Be rented to Oracle, Microsoft and Openai Collected $ 686 million At the end of November, according to a dry archive. The investment was led by the fund of the founders and the long list of other investors included Nvidia.
Figure ai: In February 2024, Startup figure of Ai Robotics raised $ 675 million Nvidia Serie B, Openai Startup Fund, Microsoft and others. The round has evaluated the company at $ 2.6 billion.
Ai Mistral: Nvidia invested in Mistral for the second time when the developer of French large language models collected a 640 million dollar Serie B in A $ 6 billion of evaluation In June.
Lambda: The Lambda Cloud supplier, which provides for the model training services, has increased to 480 million dollars Serie D to one reported $ 2.5 billion of evaluation In February. The round was co-guided by Sgw and Andra Capital Lambda and joined Nvidia, Ark Invest and others. A significant part of the Lambda business involves Réver Server fueled by the Nvidia GPUs.
Cohere: In June, Nvidia invested in Cohere’s $ 500 million roundA large supplier of linguistic models that serves companies. The chipmaker supported the startup for the first time based in Toronto in 2023.
Perplexity: Nvidia invested for the first time in perplexity in November 2023 and participated in each next round of the start of the AI search engine, included the $ 500 million Round in December, which appreciates the company to $ 9 billion, according to PitchBook data.
Pool: In October, the TO THE Coding assistant to the poolside assistant pool announced that he raised $ 500 million Led by Bain Capital Ventures. Nvidia participated in the round, which evaluated the start of the AI to $ 3 billion.
Coreweave: Nvidia invested in information technology for produced in April 2023, when Coreweave raised $ 221 million In funding. Since then, Coreweave’s evaluation has gone from around $ 2 billion to $ 19 billionAnd the company was Filed for an ipo. Coreweave allows its customers to rent Nvidia GPU on a hourly basis.
Together with: In February, Nvidia participated in the $ 305 million of Serie B Of this company, which infrastructure based on cloud for the construction of artificial intelligence models. The round has assessed together with the A $ 3.3 billion and was co-guided by Prosperity7, a Saudi Arabian company and general catalyst company. Nvidia supported the company For the first time in 2023.
Sakana Ai: In September, Nvidia invested tea Startup based in Japan, which forms models to low -cost generative generations using small data sets. The startup raised huge Serie A Round of about $ 214 million to an evaluation of $ 1.5 billion.
Imbe: The IA Lab of Research that states that they develop a system that can reason and code raised a $ 200 million In September 2023 by investors, including Nvidia, Astera Institute and Cruise form CEO Kyle Vogt.
Waobi: In June, the autonomous self -portions startup raised a Serie B from $ 200 million Round co-guided by existing Uber and Khosla Ventures investors. Other investors included Nvidia, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Porsche Automobil Holding Se.
Offers of over $ 100 million
Ayar Labs: In December, Nvidia invested in $ 155 million Round by Ayar Labs, a Company that develops optical interconnections to improve the calculation of artificial intelligence and energy efficiency. This was the third time that Nvidia supported the start.
Kore.ai::: The startup that develops chatbots to focus on the company raised $ 150 million In December 2023
AQ Sandbox: In April, Nvidia, together with Google, Bnp Paribas and others, has invested $ 150 million In Sandbox AQ, a startup that develops large quantitative models (LQM) for the management of complex numerical analysis and statistical calculations. The investment has increased the series and of Sandbox AQ to $ 450 million and the company’s evaluation at $ 5.75 billion.
To the Hippocratic: This startup, which is developing great linguistic models for health care, announced in January that he raised a $ 141 million of Serie B With an evaluation of $ 1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins. Nvidia participated in the round, together with the return of the Investors AndreeSesen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others. The company states that its artificial intelligence solutions can manage non-diagnostic tasks that turn to the patient as pre-operative procedures, patient monitoring and preparation of the supplement.
Weka: In May, Nvidia invested in A $ 140 million Round for the Weka Ai-Native data management platform. The round evaluated the Silicon Valley Company at $ 1.6 billion.
Track: In June 2023, Runway, a generative startup building to tools for creators of multimedia content, collected a $ 141 million of Serie C Extension of investors, including Nvidia, Google and Salesforce.
Luminous machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in a Serie C from $ 126 million Of light machines, an intelligent robotics and a lecture software startup A.
Emphabic: In September 2023, Nvidia invested in Networking Efabrica’s Chips designers $ 125 million Serie B. Although the startup collected $ 115 million in November, Nvidia did not participate in the round.
Note of the editor: a previous version of this story erroneously declared that Nvidia is a support of Superintelligence Safe and an investor in the Serie and Vast Data round. Nvidia has not invested in vast data from the Drivian company D.
