# NVIDIA

> NVIDIA is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 241 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 241
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nvidia
- Website: https://www.nvidia.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA.IN

NVIDIA is a computing platform company innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC and AI. The company specialises in the manufacture of graphics processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphicsprocessing units (GPUs), and game consoles.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$480M |
| Series B | $36M–$500M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 63 | 26% |
| Software | 48 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 42 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 25 | 10% |
| Analytics | 10 | 4% |

131 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 33 | 14% |
| Seed | 20 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 7% |
| Series A | 16 | 7% |
| Series C | 16 | 7% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 75 | 31% |
| Israel | 5 | 2% |
| Canada | 4 | 2% |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 2% |
| France | 3 | 1% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alison Lowndes | Artificial Intelligence DevRel \| EMEA | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alison-lowndes |
| Garren Givens | Vice President, Professional Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garren-givens |
| Gerard Andrews | Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerard-andrews-da0e |
| Greg Estes | VP Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-estes |
| Jeremy Archuleta | Senior System Safety Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-archuleta |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Firmus Technologies | Firmus Technologies creates the most efficient AI infrastructure: AI Factories designed to operate at the max-q of AI token generation and profitability. With advanced liquid-everywhere data center technology at its core, Firmus innovates across all layers of the AI Factory, from energy grid management and thermal innovations to GPU and networkingtelemetry and control. This holistic approach creates AI Factories that operate at peak efficiency, delivering high uptime, throughput, and profitability with future-proofed designs.At the heart of this infrastructure is AI FactoryOS, Firmus’ pioneering operating system that integrates data intelligence and control across the physical AI Factory.SMC, Firmus' AI-native cloud platform, leverages SHARP-enabled networking and NCP reference architecture, benefiting from the efficiency of our AI Factory infrastructure. SMC empowers customers to train faster, deploy smarter, and scale globally, while maximizing the value of every token generated. | $2B | Private Equity | Aug 07, 2026 |  |
| Volta | Volta is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform. The company develops, finances, builds, and operates AI factories by integrating institutional capital, powered land, data centers, compute, software, and operations. | $300M | Series A | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Safe Superintelligence | Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering. | $5B | Corporate Round | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Naver | Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services.The company introduces innovative search services such as ‘Comprehensive Search,’ ‘Knowledge iN,’ and ‘Real-time Rising Keyword.' It also offers UGC services such as Blog and Cafe; Junior Naver, a children’s portal; Happybean, anonline donation portal. NAVER launched its Webtoon service in June 2004 and has pioneered the distribution and consumption of webtoons, also known as digital comics. In addition, NAVER also offers services for the global market, including the mobile messenger LINE through LINE Corporation, NAVER’s subsidiary; the video messenger Snow; and the group communication service BAND.NAVER is also involved in software development and distribution; performances and exhibitions business; mobile content development and distribution; search advertising; internet commerce and customer service business; the operation and security services of IT infrastructure; operating online shopping services, and mobile applications marketing.Lee Hae-Jin and Lee Joon-ho headquartered the company in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea in 1999. | $995.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Walden Robotics | Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics. | $300M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Gradium | Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion. | $30M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Verkada | Verkada builds modern security solutions that help enterprises run safer, smarter buildings. Our mission: Modernize the world of enterprise building security.Verkada’s enterprise security solution combines easy to install security cameras, environmental sensors, alarms and access control with intelligent, cloud-based software—all in a scalable,user-friendly system. More than 7800 organizations, including 40 Fortune 500 companies, use Verkada to protect people and assets, secure facilities, and gain new insights that improve the efficiency of their operations. Verkada’s vision is to be the operating system that runs every building in the world.The company was founded by computer scientists and security experts from Stanford University, and Hans Robertson, the former co-founder and COO of Cisco Meraki. Verkada is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in London and Sydney. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Together AI | Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI applicationdevelopment and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure. | $800M | Series C | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Mirendil | Mirendil is an artificial intelligence research company that develops systems designed to automate and improve the process of AI research and development. The company trains models specialized in AI R&D and designs research workflows intended to make experimentation faster, more capable, and increasingly autonomous. Its technology aims toreduce the expertise and infrastructure barriers associated with frontier AI development, enabling researchers in fields such as biology, chemistry, robotics, and drug discovery to use advanced AI capabilities without building their own large-scale AI laboratories. Mirendil focuses on creating self-improving research systems that can support scientific and technological discovery across multiple domains. | $200M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |

10 of 241 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 16 deals together

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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 Seed stage. Most of the 241 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 $100k–$480M at Seed and $36M–$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.

### How do I contact NVIDIA?

Public channels for NVIDIA include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 29 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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