# NVentures

> NVentures is a VC fund in Santa Clara backing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. See 106 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 106
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.nventures.ai

NVentures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on innovations in various sectors. NVentures is the venture capital arm of NVIDIA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 31 | 29% |
| Robotics | 11 | 10% |
| Software | 11 | 10% |
| Biotechnology | 10 | 9% |
| Health Care | 7 | 7% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 12% |
| Series C | 11 | 10% |
| Series B | 10 | 9% |
| Seed | 9 | 8% |
| Series D | 7 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prime Intellect | Prime Intellect is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company that develops an open platform for training, deploying, and continuously improving AI models and agents. It combines AI infrastructure, reinforcement learning (RL) tooling, compute orchestration, and open-source research to make frontier AI training accessible to organizations ofall sizes. Its platform enables enterprises and researchers to build, evaluate, fine-tune, and deploy custom AI models while leveraging globally distributed compute resources.The company's platform provides an integrated stack for compute, RL post-training, evaluation, inference, and agent development. Its offerings include hosted model training on thousands of reinforcement learning environments, evaluation tools with public leaderboards, one-click deployment for fine-tuned models, and infrastructure that continuously feeds production data back into training workflows. Prime Intellect also operates an Environment Hub containing thousands of open-source RL environments and develops prime-rl, an open-source framework for large-scale asynchronous reinforcement learning. | $130M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Corca | Corca is a collaborative math editor for manipulating equations and exporting to LaTeX or Python. | $7.8M | Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Generalist AI | Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $400M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Orbital Industries | From sustainable fuels, to carbon capture, to harmful chemical removal from the environment, Orbital Materials develops and commercialises technologies that keep earth our home forever. At the core of our company is a foundation model for atoms, built by world experts in generative AI and large language models. | $49.7M | Series B | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Inherent | Inherent aims to establish the blueprint for AI-native science while investigating the boundaries of scientific inquiry. | $50M | Seed | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Tensormesh | Tensormesh is a company that specialises in optimising inference efficiency for large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems. | $20M | Seed | May 27, 2026 |  |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing. | $113M | Series B | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Alice & Bob | Alice&Bob build Universal, Error-free, Quantum Computers to help industries and researchers solve the hardest problems. |  | Series B | May 22, 2026 |  |
| XBOW | XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives. | $35M | Series C | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Legora | Legora develops an artificial intelligence software platform designed to support legal professionals in tasks such as document review, drafting, and legal research. The platform analyzes large volumes of legal documents, identifies relevant clauses or issues, and suggests edits or language based on prior legal materials and user inputs. Itintegrates with commonly used legal and document management tools, allowing lawyers to work within applications such as word processing systems and internal knowledge repositories. Legora also enables users to search legal databases and internal firm documents from a unified workspace, helping legal teams access information and precedents within a single interface. The system supports collaboration by allowing multiple users to review materials, generate summaries, and organize findings during legal workflows. Its software is used by law firms and in-house legal teams to manage research, document preparation, and information analysis associated with legal matters. | $50M | Series D | Apr 30, 2026 |  |

10 of 106 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Radical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radical-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NVentures invest in?

NVentures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 106 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did NVentures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for NVentures closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 106 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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