No company has capitalized the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability and cash reserves have been soared by the introduction of ChatGPT two years ago – and the many competing AI genetic services that have begun since then. And the price of its shares increased.
During this time, the world’s leading high -performance GPU manufacturer used its wealth to significantly increase investment in all kinds of newly established businesses, but especially in new AI companies.
The Chip Giant increased business capital activity in 2024, participating in 49 rounds of funding for AI companies, a sharp increase from 34 in 2023, according to Pitchbook data. It is a dramatic increase in investment compared to the previous four years in combination, during which Nvidia funded only 38 AI agreements. Note that these investments exclude those made by its official VC corporate fund, Nentures, which has also significantly increased its investment over the past two years. (Pitchbook says that nventures dealing with 24 deals in 2024, compared to just 2 in 2022.)
In 2025, Nvidia has already participated in seven rounds.
Nvidia has stated That the goal of its corporate investment is to expand the AI ecosystem, supporting the newly established businesses that they consider to be “game change players and market manufacturers”.
Below is a list of newly established businesses that have set rounds of more than $ 100 million, where Nvidia is a participant named in 2023, including young people who have been supported so far in 2025, organized by the highest amount to the lowest increased round.
The billion of dollars
Openai: Nvidia supported Chatgpt manufacturer for the first time in October, reportedly writing $ 100 million to a colossal round of $ 6.6 billion that valued the company at $ 157 billion. Chipmaker’s investment was expelled by other Openai supporters, mainly thrive, who according to the New York Times invested $ 1.3 billion.
xai: Nvidia participated in the Elon Musk XAI $ 6 billion. Agreement revealed that not all Openai investors are followed his request To avoid supporting any of its direct competitors. After investing in Chatgpt Maker in October, Nvidia joined the XAI table a few months later.
Slope: One of NVIDIA’s first major investments also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, Nvidia was one of the many investors in LeBlection’s $ 1.3 billion round, a company founded by Mustafa Suleyman, who previously founded Deepmind. Less than a year later, Microsoft hired the AI founders, paying $ 620 million for a non -exclusive technology license, leaving the company with significantly reduced labor and less specified future.
Wayve: In May, NVIDIA participated in a $ 1.05 billion-based round of 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 Gulf of San Francisco.
AI Scale: In May 2024, Nvidia joined Accel and other Amazon and Meta technology giants to invest $ 1 billion on a AI scale, which provides data labeling services to AI models. The round evaluated the company based in San Francisco at nearly $ 14 billion.
The many hundreds of millions of millions of clubs
CRUSOE: A building starting centers referenced To hire Oracle, Microsoft and Openai increased $ 686 million in late November, according to SEC. The investment was led by the Fund of Fund and the long list of other investors included Nvidia.
AI Figure: In February 2024, AI Robotics Startup Figure has increased a series of Bidia, the Openai Starting Fund, Microsoft and more. The round evaluated the company at $ 2.6 billion.
Mistral AI: Nvidia invested in the Mistral for the second time, when the large French -based language programmer set a series of $ 640 million in June $ 6 billion in June.
Lambda: AI Lambda cloud provider, who provides services for models, increased $ 480 million in row d at referenced Valuation of $ 2.5 billion In February. The round realized from SGW and Andra Capital Lambda and participated in Nvidia, Ark Invest and others. A significant part of Lambda’s business includes the rental of servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs.
Cohere: In June, Nvidia invested Cohere’s $ 500 million, a large model of language modeling. Chipmaker first supported Toronto -based start in 2023.
Embarrassment: Nvidia invested for the first time in an embarrassment in November 2023 and participated in every subsequent round of AI search engine start, including a $ 500 million round in December, which estimates the company at $ 9 billion, according to Pitchbook data.
Next to the pool: In October, the All included The pool starting assistant coding announced that it raised $ 500 million led by Bain Capital Ventures. Nvidia was involved in the round, which assigned AI’s start of $ 3 billion.
Coreweave: Nvidia invested in AI Cloud Computer Provider in April 2023, when Coreweave increased the funding of $ 211 million. Since then, Coreweave’s valuation has jumped from about $ 2 billion to $ 19 billion and the company has deposited for IPO. Coreweave allows its customers to rent Nvidia GPU on an hourly basis.
Together AI: In February, Nvidia participated in A 30 million $ This company, which offers a cloud -based infrastructure for the manufacture of AI models. The round was valued at $ 3.3 billion and realized by Prosperity7, a Saudi Arabian business company and the general catalyst. Nvidia supported the company for the first time in 2023.
Sakana Ai: In September, Nvidia invested in the Japan -based start, which trains low -cost AI genetic models using small sets of data. The start increased a huge A -range A about $ 214 million with a $ 1.5 billion valuation.
Soak: The AI Research Laboratory The claims that they are developing AI systems that can be held accountable and code have set a $ 200 million tour in September 2023 by investors, such as Nvidia, ASTERA Institute and former CRUISE CEO Kyle Vogt.
Waabi: In June, the independent truck launch put a series of $ 200 million in round from 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 Round $ 155 million of Ayar Labs, a Company developing visual interconnections to improve computers and AI power. This was the third time Nvidia supported the start.
Kore.ai: The launch of AI Chatbots focusing on businesses raised $ 150 million in December 2023. In addition to Nvidia, investors involved in funding included FTV Capital, Vistara Growth and Sweetwater Private Equity.
Hippocrates AI: This start, which is developing large linguistic models for health care, announced in January that it has increased a $ 14 million in valuation of $ 1.64 billion, led by Kleiner Perkins. Nvidia participated in the round, along with investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others. The company claims that AI solutions can handle non -diagnostic tasks that patients are facing, such as procedures, remote monitoring of patients and preparation for appointment.
Weka: In May, Nvidia invested in a $ 140 million round for the AI-Native Weka Data Management platform. The round evaluated Silicon Valley at $ 1.6 billion.
Airport runway: In June 2023, Runway, a start of AI genetic tools for multimedia content creators, increased an expansion of a C -series to a series of $ 141 million from investors, including Nvidia, Google and Salesforce.
Bright machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in a Series of 126 million $ of bright machines, smart robotics and software starting driven by AI.
Enfabrica: In September 2023, Nvidia invested Nvidia’s $ 125 million, although the start increased another $ 115 million in November, Nvidia did not participate in the round.
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