Ai Empire de Nvidia: a look at its main start investments

No company has capitalized the ai ​​revolution more dramatic than Nvidia. Its income, profitability and cash reserves have shot themselves since the introduction of Chatgpt more than two years ago, and the many competitive generative services that have been launched since then. And its sharing price shot.

During that period, the main high -performance GPU manufacturer in the world has used its balloon fortunes to significantly increase investments in all types of new companies, but particularly in new ai companies.

The chips giant increased its risk capital activity in 2024, participating in 49 financing rounds for ai companies, a strong increase of 34 in 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 ai agreements. Note that these investments exclude those made by their formal VC Corporate Fund, Nventures, which also significantly increased its investment in the last two years. (Pitchbook says that the nventures participated in 24 agreements in 2024, compared to only 2 in 2022.)

In 2025, Nvidia has already participated in seven rounds.

Nvidia has declared That the objective of its corporate investment is to expand the ai ​​ecosystem by supporting the new companies that it considers “market changers and market manufacturers.”

Below is a list of new companies that raised rounds greater than $ 100 million where Nvidia is a participant named since 2023, including the new ones that has supported until now in 2025, organized from the highest amount to the lowest in the round.

The Round Club of one billion dollars

OpenAI: Nvidia supported the Chatgpt manufacturer for the first time in October, according to reports, writing a $ 100 million check for a colossal round of $ 6.6 billion that valued the company at $ 157 billion. The investor of the chips manufacturer was eclipsed by the other OpenAI sponsors, in particular, which according to the New York Times invested $ 1.3 billion.

XAI: Nvidia participated in the Round of $ 6 billion XAI of Elon Musk. The agreement revealed that not all Openai investors <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tells-investor-not-invest-five-ai-startups-including-sutskevers-ssi-2024-10-02/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>I followed your application Refrain from supporting any of its direct competitors. After investing in the Chatgpt manufacturer in October, Nvidia joined the capital table of Xai a few months later.

Inflection: One of the first significant investments of NVIDIA also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, Nvidia was one of the several main investors in the $ 1.3 billion round of the inflection, a company founded by Mustafa Suleyman, who previously founded Deepmind. Less than a year later, Microsoft hired the founders of the inflection, paying $ 620 million for a non -exclusive technology license, leaving the company with a significantly diminished workforce and a less defined future.

Wayve: In May, Nvidia participated in a round of $ 1.05 billion 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 the San Francisco Bay area.

ai scale: In May 2024, Nvidia joined Accel and other amazon technological giants to invest $ 1 billion in scale, which provides data manufacturing services to companies to train ai models. The round valued the company based in San Francisco at almost $ 14 billion.

The club of many hundreds of millions of dollars

Crusoe: A startup construction data centers <a target="_blank" href="https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/15/crusoe-3-4b-joint-venture-build-ai-data-center-campus-100000-gpus/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>reportedly Being leased to Oracle, Microsoft and Openai raised $ 686 million at the end of November, according to a presentation of the SEC. The investment was directed by Founders Fund, and the long list of other investors included Nvidia.

Figure ai: In February 2024, The ai ​​Robotics starting figure raised a B series of $ 675 million from NVIDIA, Operai Startup Fund, Microsoft and others. The round valued the company at $ 2.6 billion.

Mistrali ai: Nvidia invested in Mistral for the second time when the developer of large language models based in France raised a B series of $ 640 million at an assessment of $ 6 billion in June.

Lambda: The ai ​​Cloud Lambda provider, which provides services for model training, raised a<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://lambdalabs.com/blog/lambda-raises-480m-to-expand-ai-cloud-platform”> Series D of $ 480 million in A reported<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-cloud-startup-lambda-raises-480-million-new-round-nvidia-among-investors-2025-02-19/”> Valuation of $ 2.5 billion In February. The round was directed by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda, and joined Nvidia, Ark Invest and others. An important part of the Lambda business implies renting servers driven by NVIDIA GPUs.

Adhere: In June, Nvidia invested in the round of $ 500 million coherence, a large language models provider that serves companies. The chips manufacturer first supported the Startup based in Toronto in 2023.

Perplexity: Nvidia first invested perplexity in November 2023 and has participated in each posterior round of the start of the ai ​​search engine, including the $ 500 million round in December, which values ​​the company at $ 9 billion, according to Pitchbook data.

Next to the pool: In October, the ai The pool coding startups announced that it raised $ 500 million led by Bain Capital Ventures. Nvidia participated in La Ronda, which valued the ai ​​startup at $ 3 billion.

Coreweave: Nvidia invested in the ai ​​cloud computing supplier in April 2023, when Coreweave raised $ 221 million in funds. Since then, the Coreweave assessment has increased from approximately $ 2 billion to $ 19 billion, and the company has requested an OPI. Coreweave allows its customers to rent NVIDIA GPU per hour.

Together ai: In February, Nvidia participated in the<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-announcing-305m-series-b”> Series B $ 305 million B of this company, which offers cloud -based infrastructure to build ai models. The Round valued in Tesai at $ 3.3 billion, and was led by Prosperity7, a risk company of Saudi Arabia and a general catalyst. Nvidia supported the company for the first time in 2023.

Sakka N'A: In September, Nvidia invested in he Startup based in Japan, which trains low -cost generative models using small data sets. The startup raised a massive round of approximately $ 214 million at an assessment of $ 1.5 billion.

Imbue: The ai ​​research laboratory The statements of developing ai systems that can reason and code raised a round of $ 200 million in September 2023 of investors, including Nvidia, Astera Institute and the former CEO of Cruise Kyle Vogt.

Guarantee: In June, the Autonomous Startup of trucks raised a series B series of $ 200 million directed by 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

Laboratory configuration: In December, Nvidia invested in the <a target="_blank" href="https://ayarlabs.com/news/ayar-labs-155m-series-d-to-address-ai-infrastructure-includes-amd-intel-capital-nvidia/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener nofollow”>$ 155 million round To establish laboratories, a Company that develops optical interconnections to improve the calculation of ai and energy efficiency. This was the third time Nvidia supported the startup.

Kore.ai: The startup that develops the chatbots of the centered on the company raised $ 150 million in December 2023. In addition to NVIDIA, investors participating in the financing included FTV Capital, said Growth and Sweetwater Private Equity.

Hypocratic: This startup, which is developing large language models for medical care, announced in January that it raised a B series of $ 141 million at an assessment of $ 1.64 billion directed by Kleiner Perkins. Nvidia participated in La Ronda, along with investors returning Andreessen Horowitz, Catalyst General and others. The company states that its ai solutions can handle non -diagnostic tasks oriented to the patient, such as preoperative procedures, remote monitoring of the patient and quotation preparation.

Weka: In May, Nvidia invested in a $ 140 million round for the ai ​​Weka Native Data Management Platform. The round valued the Silicon Valley company at $ 1.6 billion.

Clue: In June 2023, Runway, a startup building generative tools for multimedia content creators, raised an extension of the C series of $ 141 million of investors, including Nvidia, Google and Salesforce.

Bright machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in a Series C of $ 126 million From Bright Machines, an intelligent robotics and a software start -ups.

DIRECOM: In September 2023, Nvidia invested in the $ 125 million series of the Ubrica B network chips designer B. Although the startup raised another $ 115 million in November, Nvidia did not participate in the round.

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