No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. His income, profitability and cash reserves have been skyrocrating since the introduction of Chatgpt two years ago, and the many competitive services of AI generatives that have been launched since. And their actions price increased.
During this period, the world’s leading GPU manufacturer in the world has used its balloon fortunes to significantly increase investments in all types of startups, but particularly in AI startups.
The chip giant increased his venture capital activity by 2024, participating in 49 funding rounds for AI companies, a sharp increase of 34 by 2023, according to Pitchbook data. It is a dramatic increase in investment compared to the previous four years combined, during which Nvidia financed only 38 offers of AI. Please note that these investments exclude those made by their formal VC corporate fund, NTVATURES, which also significantly increased their investment in the last two years. (Pitchbook says NTVATURES is engaged in 24 offers by 2024 compared to only 2 in 2022.)
By 2025, Nvidia has already participated in seven rounds.
Nvidia he has said That the purpose of its corporate investment is to expand the AI ecosystem supporting the startups, which he considers to be “market change and market manufacturers”.
This is followed by a list of startups that raised rounds of more than $ 100 million when Nvidia is a participant named since 2023, including those of new ones that has so far supported in 2025, organized from the highest amount to the lowest of the round.
The club of a billion dollars
Openai: Nvidia supported Chatgpt’s manufacturer for the first time in October as it meant writing a Checking $ 100 million Towards a colossal round of $ 6.6 billion that the company valued at $ 157 million. Chips’ investment was nanada by other Openai sponsors, especially Thrivei, which according to the New York Times invested $ 1.3 billion.
Lamb: Nvidia participated in the round of $ 6 billion of Elon Musk’s lamb. The agreement revealed that not all Openai investors followed his request To refrain from supporting any of its direct competitors. After investing in Chatgpt’s manufacturer in October, Nvidia joined the lamb table A few months after.
In turning: One of the first significant investments in Nvidia’s AI also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, Nvidia was one of the various main investors in the inflection 1.3 billion dollars Round, a company founded by Mustafa Sueyman, who previously founded Deepmind. Less than a year later, Microsoft hired the founders of the II II, Paying $ 620 million For a non -exclusive technological license, leaving the company a significantly decreased labor and a less defined future.
Wayve: In May, Nvidia participated in a 1.05 billion dollars round For the UK -based startup, which is developing a self -learning system for autonomous driving. The company is testing its vehicles in the United Kingdom and the area of San Francisco Bay.
AI scale: In May 2024, Nvidia joined ACC and other Amazon and Meta Technology Giants to invest Billion dollars AI, which provides data labeling services to companies for the training of AI models. The round evaluated the company based in San Francisco about $ 14 billion.
The club of many hundred of billions of dollars
Crusoe: Starting Creation Centers report To be leased to Oracle, Microsoft and Openai raised $ 686 million At the end of November, according to a dry presentation. The investment was led by Founders Fund, and the long list of other investors included Nvidia.
Figure AI: In February 2024, The AI Robotics Beginning figure 675 million dollars Nvidia series B, Openai Startup Fund, Microsoft and others. The round rated the company at $ 2.6 billion.
Mistrali Ai: Nvidia invested Mistral for the second time when the French -based large -based models developer raised a B -$ 640 million series A to a Valuation of $ 6 billion In June.
Lambda: Ai Lambda cloud supplier, which offers model training services, increased a Dollars D -480 million In a report $ 2.5 billion assessment In February. The round was co-directed by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda, and joined Nvidia, Ark Invest and others. An important part of Lambda’s business is to rent servers fed by the GPU de Nvidia.
COHERE: In June, Nvidia invested in Cohere’s $ 500 million roundA large -language models provider that serves companies. The Chip maker, for the first time, supported the Toronto -based startup in 2023.
Perplexity: Nvidia first invested in perplexity in November 2023 and participated in all subsequent rounds of the AI search engine startup $ 500 million Round in December, which values the company at $ 9 billion, according to Pitchbook data.
Pobla in the pool: In October, the Ay The pool’s starting coding assistant announced that it was raised $ 500 million Directed by Bain Capital Ventures. Nvidia participated in the round, which valued the AI startup at $ 3 billion.
Coreweave: Nvidia invested in Ai cloud computing provider in April 2023, when Coreweave increased 221 million dollars In funding. Since then, Coreweave’s rating has increased from $ 2 billion to 19 billion dollarsand the company has Filed by an OIPO. Coreweave allows their customers to rent Nvidia GPU every hour.
Together AI: In February, Nvidia participated in the Series B of $ 305 million of this company, which offers clouds based on the creation of AI models. The round rated by an AI was $ 3.3 billion and was co-led by Prosperity7, a Saudi Arabic business firm and Generalst of Catalonia. Nvidia supported the company For the first time In 2023.
Sakka n’A: In September, Nvidia invested in it Japan -based startup, which forms low -cost generative models using small data sets. The startup raised a massive Series A of about $ 214 million with an assessment of $ 1.5 billion.
Imbue: The AI research laboratory that He claims that IA systems develop that can reason and a code proposed in $ 200 million round In September 2023, in investors, including Nvidia, Asera Institute, and the ex -Director General of Cruises, Kyle Vogt.
Guarantee: In June, the Autonomous Truck Startup raised a Series B of $ 200 million Round CO-Llud for existing investors Uber and Khosla Ventures. Other investors included Nvidia, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Porsche Automobil Holding SE.
Offers of more than $ 100 million
Settings of Laboratories: In December, Nvidia invested in the Round of $ 155 million Of laboratories configuration, to A company that develops optical interconnections to improve the calculation of AI and power efficiency. This was the third time Nvidia supported the startup.
Kore.ai: The startup develops the Chat Ai Chat focused on companies that was raised 150 million dollars In December 2023. In addition to Nvidia, investors participating in funding included FTV Capital, View Growth and Sweetwater Private Equity.
Sandbox Aq: In April, Nvidia, next to Google, BNP Paribas and others, invested 150 million dollars At Sandbox AQ, a startup that develops large quantitative models (LQMS) to manage complex numerical analysis and statistical calculations. The investment increased the E -Sandbox AQ series to $ 450 million and the company’s assessment to $ 5.75 billion.
Hippocratic AI: This startup, which is developing major language models for health care, announced in January that it raised a Series B of $ 141 million With an assessment of $ 1.64 million led by Kleiner Perkins. Nvidia participated in the round, along with the investors returned Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others. The company claims that their AI solutions can manage non -diagnostic tasks of patients such as preoperative procedures, remote monitoring of the patient and appointment preparation.
Weka: In May, Nvidia invested in a 140 million dollars Round for the AI-WEKA Data Management Platform. The round evaluated the Silicon Valley company at $ 1.6 billion.
Bitch: In June 2023, Runway, a creation of starting tools generating tools for multimedia content creators, raised a Series C of $ 141 million Investor extension, including NVIDIA, Google and SalesForce.
Bright machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in a Series C of $ 126 million of bright machines, a smart robotics and a Ai -driven software startup.
Direccom: In September 2023, Nvidia invested in the Network Chips designer Series B of $ 125 million. Although the startup raised $ 115 million in November, Nvidia did not participate in the round.
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