NVIDIA
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
NVIDIA is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. NVIDIA develops full-stack software and enterprise hardware solutions used across automotive, healthcare, and data center industries. Organizations utilize NVIDIA technology to build generative artificial intelligence tools, run autonomous vehicle simulations, and accelerate medical research workflows.
- Total investments:
- 272
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries NVIDIA invests in
Stages NVIDIA invests in
Countries NVIDIA invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$300M
- Series A
- $245k–$414M
- Series B
- $32M–$500M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 121 (44%)
- Software 66 (24%)
- Machine Learning 59 (22%)
- Information Technology 50 (18%)
- Generative AI 27 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 50 (18%)
- Series A 33 (12%)
- Seed 31 (11%)
- Series C 24 (9%)
- Series D 18 (7%)
Country
- United States 132 (49%)
- United Kingdom 7 (3%)
- Israel 6 (2%)
- Canada 5 (2%)
- Sri Lanka 5 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alison Lowndes
Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA
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Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Garren Givens
Vice President, Professional Services
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Vice President, Professional Services | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Gerard Andrews
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics
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Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Greg Estes
VP Marketing
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VP Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jeremy Archuleta
Senior System Safety Engineer
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Senior System Safety Engineer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 31 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $90M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Mecka AI is a data infrastructure company that builds large scale human datasets and tools to train and deploy AI and robotics systems. | $60M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| GMI Cloud is a business of empowering the world's best ideas. Which provide businesses all over the globe with unmatched cloud access to top-tier GPUs like the NVIDIA H100 and streamlined software platform for integration, virtualization, and deployment. | $223M / Series B / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| CSpeed is a telecommunications company that offers datacenter connectivity services. | $145M / Series C / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options. | $3.4B / Convertible Note / Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| SB Energy provides flexible renewable energy at scale, accelerating the global energy transition and benefiting our planet, customers, communities, and people. | $1.5B / Corporate Round / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Nuance Labs, an AI research company, is developing the first human foundation model that understands and displays emotion in real time using voice, facial emotions, and body language. | $50M / Series A / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $150M / Series E / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Verily is an Alphabet health technology company focused on research, care, and health financing to deliver on the promise of precision health and help people live healthier lives. We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology, data science, and healthcare to create tools to accelerate evidence generation, products to enable morepersonalized care, and approaches to make costs more predictable. For more information about Verily please visit verily.com. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | Private Equity / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| See all 272 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does NVIDIA invest in?
NVIDIA invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 272 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is NVIDIA's check size?
NVIDIA typically joins rounds of $120k–$300M at Seed, $245k–$414M at Series A and $32M–$500M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NVIDIA participates in.
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Who are the partners at NVIDIA?
The team at NVIDIA includes Alison Lowndes (Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA), Garren Givens (Vice President, Professional Services) and Gerard Andrews (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics), among 31 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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