No company used the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. His revenues, profitability and money reserves have increased rapidly since the introduction of CHATGPT over two years ago – and many competitive AI generative services that have been began since then. And its price increased.
During this era, the world -leading high -performance GPU producer used its balloon fortunes to significantly increase investments in every kind of startups, but especially in AI startups.
According to Pitchbook data, Giant increased the activity of increased risk capital, participating in 49 funding for AI, which is a sharp increase with 34 in 2023. This is a dramatic increase in investment in comparison with the previous 4 years, during which NVIDIA financed only 38 AI contracts. It must be noted that these investments exclude investments made by the formal corporate VC fund, Nventures, which has also significantly increased investments in the last two years. (PitchBook claims that nvurtures in 24 offers in 2024, in comparison with only 2 in 2022)
In 2025, Nvidia already participated in seven rounds.
Nvidia stated that the purpose of corporate investing is to increase the artificial intelligence ecosystem by supporting startups, which it considers to be “market and market producers”.
Below is a list of startups, which raised rounds exceeding $ 100 million, in which NVIDIA is a named participant since 2023, including latest ones, which until now supported in 2025, organized from the highest amount to the lowest raised in the round.
Round Club value a billion dollars
OpenAI: Nvidia for the first time in October supported the ChatgPT manufacturer, apparently writing a check of $ 100 million towards a colossal round value $ 6.6 billion, which valued the company at $ 157 billion. The Chipmer investment has been overshadowed by other OpenAI supporters, especially developing, which, based on the New York Times, invested $ 1.3 billion.
XAI: Nvidia participated in a round of $ 6 billion XAI Elona Musk. The agreement revealed that not all Openai investors after his request refrain from supporting any of his direct competitors. After investing in the ChatgPT manufacturer in October, Nvidia joined the XAI table a few months later.
Inflection: One of the first significant investments of AI Nvidia also had one of the most unusual results. In June 2023, Nvidia was one of several leading investors in the round of $ 1.3 billion, a company founded by Mustafa Suleyman, which had previously founded Deepmind. Less than a yr later, Microsoft hired AI founders, paying $ 620 million for a non -exclusive technological license, leaving the company a significantly reduced labor force and a less defined future.
Wayve: In May, Nvidia participated in the round of $ 1.05 billion for the British startup, which develops a system of self -learning for autonomous driving. The company is testing its vehicles in Great Britain and San Francisco Bay Area.
Scale AI: In May 2024, Nvidia joined ACCEL and other Amazon and Meta technological giants to speculate $ 1 billion in artificial intelligence on a scale, which provides data marking services for corporations for training AI models. The round valued the company based in San Francisco on almost $ 14 billion.
Club of many tens of millions of dollars
Crusoe: Startup building data centers apparently According to SEC for rent, Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI collected $ 686 million at the end of November. The investment was carried out by the Funders Fund, and the long list of other investors included Nvidia.
Figure AI: In February 2024, The AI Robotics startup collected a B series in the amount of $ 675 million from Nvidia, OpenAI Startup Fund, Microsoft and others. The round valued the company at $ 2.6 billion.
Msalla AI: Nvidia invested in Mistral for the second time, when the French developer with a large language collected $ 640 million in series B in June with a valuation of $ 6 billion.
Lambda: AI Cloud Lambda supplier, which provides services for model training, raised Series D value $ 480 million Reported Valuation of $ 2.5 billion in February The round was conducted jointly by SGW and Andra Capital Lambda, and joined Nvidia, Ark Invest and others. A big a part of Lambda’s activity is to rent servers powered by NVIDIA GPU.
Cohere: In June, Nvidia invested $ 500 million in the Cohere round, a supplier of a large language model supporting the enterprise. Chipmaker for the first time supported the startup in Toronto in 2023.
Embarrassment: NVIDIA invested for the first time in November 2023 and participated in each subsequent round of the AI search engine startup, including in a round of $ 500 million in December, which values the company on $ 9 billion, based on the Pitchbook data.
Swimming pool: In October And The Basenside startup assistant announced that he had collected $ 500 million run by Bain Capital Ventures. Nvidia participated in the round, which valued AI startup for $ 3 billion.
Coreweave: Nvidia invested in the AI cloud processing supplier in April 2023, when Coreweave collected $ 221 million in financing. Since then, Coreweave valuation has increased from around $ 2 billion to $ 19 billion, and the company has submitted an application for IPO. Coreweave allows its clients to rent NVIDIA GPU for every hour.
Together AI: In February, Nvidia participated in Series B 305 million dollars this company that gives cloud infrastructure to build AI models. The round valued together at $ 3.3 billion and was together by Prosperity7, Venture Arabian Arabian and General Catalyst. Nvidia supported the company for the first time in 2023.
Sakka n’a: In September, Nvidia invested in . Japanese startup that trains low-cost generative AI models using small data sets. The startup collected a huge series and about $ 214 million with a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.
Imbue: AI research laboratory, which He claims that they are developing AI systems that may reason and the Code, collected a round of $ 200 million in September 2023 from investors, including Nvidia, the Astera Institute and former general director of Cruise Kyle Vogt.
Guarantee: In June, the autonomous transport startup raised the roundness of the B series in the amount of $ 200 million by existing Uber and Khosla Ventures investors. Other investors are Nvidia, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Porsche Automobil Holding SE.
Offers over $ 100 million
Setting laboratories: In December, Nvidia invested in $ 155 million round Setting laboratories, a An organization developing optical interconnects to enhance AI and energy performance. It was the third time when Nvidia supported the startup.
Kore.Ai: In December 2023, in December 2023, developed by Enterprise Ai Chatbots collected $ 150 million. In addition to NVIDIA, investors participating in financing are FTV Capital, Vistara Growth and Sweetwater Private Equity.
Hypocratic AI: This startup, which develops large language models for healthcare, announced in January that he collected $ 141 million B series with a valuation of $ 1.64 billion run by Kleiner Perkins. Nvidia participated in the round with recurring investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and others. The company claims that AI solutions can support non -diagnostic patients’ tasks, resembling preoperative procedures, distant monitoring of patients and preparing a meeting.
Weka: In May, Nvidia invested $ 140 million in the Runda Round for the AI Weka data management platform. The round valued the Silicon Valley company at $ 1.6 billion.
Runway: In June 2023, Runway, AI generative tools for multimedia content creators, collected an extension of the C series in the amount of $ 141 million from investors, including Nvidia, Google and Salesforce.
Bright machines: In June 2024, Nvidia participated in Series C value $ 126 million vibrant machines, intelligent robotics and starting software based on artificial intelligence.
Direccom: In September 2023, Nvidia invested in a series of enfabrica network designers in the amount of $ 125 million B. Although the startup collected one other $ 115 million in November, Nvidia didn’t participate in the round.