No company has taken advantage of the AI revolution in a more dramatic way than NVIDIA. Its revenue, profit and cash reserves have left the sky only two years ago after the introduction of Chattag. And his stock price rose.
During this period, the world’s top -performance GPU maker has used the fortunes of its balloons to significantly increase investment in all kinds but especially in AI startups.
According to Pitch Bok data, Chip Vishal promoted his venture capital activity in 2024, and participated in 49 funding rounds for AI companies, increased by 34 in 2023, according to Pitch Bok data. This is a dramatic increase in investment over the past four years, during which NVIDIA financed only 38 AI deals. Note that these investments have been excluded by its formal corporate VC Fund, NVentures, who have significantly promoted its investment in the last two years. ۔
In 2025, Nvidia has already participated in seven rounds.
nvidia What is described That its corporate investment target is to expand the AI ecosystem, which supports startup and considers it “game changer and market makers”.
The following is a list of startups that have collected more than 100 million rounds of millions, where NVIDIA has been named since 2023, which has the support of 2025 so far, with the lowest raising the highest amount in the round.
Round Club of billion dollars
Open i: NVIDIA supported the Chat GPT maker for the first time in October, allegedly writing 100 million checks at a tremendous period of $ 6.6 billion, with the company costing $ 157 billion. According to the New York Times, the investment of the chipmaker was also perfected by other openings supporters, which invested $ 1.3 billion according to the New York Times.
Ze: NVIDIA participated in the $ 6 billion round of Elon Musk. This agreement revealed that not all of the openings are investors Followed his request Refrain from backing any direct opponent. After investing in the Chat GPT maker in October, NVIDIA joined the ZK cap table a few months later.
Inflammation: Nvidia’s first important AI investment also yielded the most extraordinary results. In June 2023, Navidia was one of the major investors in the $ 1.3 billion round of infection, founded by Mustafa Suleiman, who had previously founded the Deep Mind. After less than a year, Microsoft hired the founders of the infection AI, which paid $ 620 million for a non -special technology license, leaving the company significantly reduced manpower and a low -determined future.
Viv: In May, NVIDIA participated in a $ 1.05 billion round for the UK -based startup, developing a self -learning system for independent driving. The company is checking its vehicles in the UK and San Francisco Bay Area.
Scale AI: In May 2024, NVIDIA joined ACCEL and other tech companies in Amazon and Meta to invest in Billion 1 billion in Scale AI, which provides data labeling services to companies for AI model training. The rounds of the company based in San Francisco worth about $ 14 billion.
Many Hundred Millions of Dollars Clubs
Croso: Startup Building Data Centers According to the notifications According to SEC filing, Oracle, Microsoft, and Openi were leased at the end of November. The investment was led by the founding fund, and the long list of other investors included NVIDIA.
Chitra AI: In February 2024, AI Robotics Startup data collected a series of $ 675 million from NVIDIA, Openi Startup Fund, Microsoft and others. The round was priced at 6 2.6 billion.
Incorrect AI: Nvidia invested for the second time in Mistal when a French -based model developer collected $ 640 million in a series of $ 6 billion in June.
Lambida: AI Cloud Provider Lambda, who provides services for model training, 80 480 million Series D On a notification Billion 2.5 billion value The round was led by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda in February, and included Ann Vidia, Arc Investment, and others. A significant part of the Lambda business includes renting servers operated by NVIDIA GPUs.
Cohere: In June, NVIDIA invested in Koheer’s Million 500 million rounds, serving businesses providing a large language model. The chipmaker first supported Toronto -based startup in 2023.
Distressed: According to Pitch Bok data, NVIDIA first invested in trouble in November 2023 and participated in every round of AI search engine startups, including 500 million rounds in December, which value the company $ 9 billion.
Polyeside: In October, Appearance Coding Assistant Startup Poleside announced that it collected 500 million millions of Million, headed by Ben Capital Ventures. NVIDIA participated in the round, which costs AI startup $ 3 billion.
Corveo: NVIDIA in April 2023 invested in the AI cloud computing provider, when Korio raised $ 221 million in financing. Since then, Corio’s price has increased from $ 2 billion to $ 19 billion, and the company has filed for IPO. Korio allows its customers to rent NVIDIA GPUs on an hour -long basis.
Together AI: In February, Nvidia participated in it 5 305 million Series B The company, which offers cloud -based infrastructure for the construction of the AI model. This round is priced at 3 3.3 billion and led by Saudi Arabia’s project, and prosperity on General Catalist 7. Navidia supported the company for the first time in 2023.
Sakana AI: In September, NVIDIA invested Japan -based startups, which train low -cost generative AI models using small datases. Startup increased a massive series of about $ 214 million by $ 1.5 billion.
imbue: AI Research Lab Joe Claims for developing AI system, which can collect $ 200 million round from investors, including NVIDIA, Asteira Institute, and former CEO CEO Kyle Woget in September 2023, due to reasoning and code.
Wabi: In June, an independent trucking startup increased the $ 200 million series B -rounder led by current investor Uber and Khosla Ventures. Other investors include NVIDIA, Volvo Group Venture Capital, and Porsche Automobile Holding SE.
Million deals of over 100 million
Ayar Labs: In December, NVIDIA invested in 5 155 million rounds Ayar Labs of, a Optical coordination company to improve the AI computing and power performance. This was the third time that NVIDIA supported the startup.
kore.ai: Startup Enterprise -based AI Chat Boats collected Million 150 million in December 2023. In addition to NVIDIA, investors participating in the fund include FTV capital, Vistania growth, and Sweet Water Private Equity.
Sandbox AQ: In April, along with Google, BNP Pribas and others, NVIDIA also invested million 150 million In the Sandbox AQ, a larger quarterly analysis and a larger quantitative model (LQM) manufacturer to handle the statistical calculation. This investment raised $ 450 million in the Sandbox AQ series and the company’s $ 75 5.75 billion.
Hopkritic AI: The launch, which is developing a large language model for health care, announced in January that it had collected a $ 141 million series B, under the leadership of Cleaner Perkins, $ 141 million. Navidia participated in the round, as well as investors returning to Anderson Horvetes, General Catalists, and others. The company claims that its AI solutions can handle tasks such as pre -operating procedures, monitoring of remote patients, and appointment preparations.
Vika: In May, NVIDIA invested in Million 140 million rounds for AI-Local Data Management Platform Waka. The round has cost $ 1.6 billion in the Silicon Valley Company.
Runway: In June 2023, Startup Building Generative AI tools for multimedia content creators, Runway, increased the series extension of $ 141 million from investors, including NVIDIA, Google and Sales Force.
Bright machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in A 6 126 million Series C Bright machines, a smart robotics and AI -powered software startup.
Infabica: In September 2023, Nvidia invested networking chips designer Anfabka’s million in 125 million Series B. Although Startup added 115 million further in November, NVIDIA did not participate in this period.
Editor’s Note: The previous version of this story has falsely told that NVIDIA is a backer of secure sprintilus and is an investor in the broad data series E -round. NVIDIA has not invested wider data since the company’s series D.