No company makes more effective use of the AI revolution than Nvidia. Since ChatGPT was launched more than two years ago, the company's revenue, profit and cash reserves have skyrocketed.
Stock prices also increased sharply, making Nvidia one of the technology companies with the highest market capitalization, reaching 4.5 trillion USD.
The world's leading high-performance GPU manufacturer not only provides hardware but also uses its assets to expand investment in startups, especially in the AI field.
According to PitchBook data, as of 2025, Nvidia has participated in 50 venture deals, surpassing the 48 deals for the whole year of 2024.
These investments include NVentures Enterprise Risk Investment Fund, which also accelerated its investment, participating in 21 deals this year compared to just one deal in 2022.
Nvidia's goal is to expand the AI ecosystem by supporting startups that they consider "the ones who change the game and create the market".
Nvidia's outstanding investments are divided into two groups, including startups worth billions of dollars and startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the billion-dollar group, Nvidia invested in OpenAI from October 2024 with 100 million USD in a round of 6.6 billion USD.
Nvidia also invested in Elon Musk's xAI, Mistral AI in France, Reflection AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Inflection, Nscale, Wayve, figureure AI and Scale AI. These investments help Nvidia strengthen its position in generative AI, autonomous vehicles, robots and data infrastructure.
The startup group worth hundreds of millions of USD will include Commonwealth Fusion, Crusoe, Cohere, Perplexity, Poolside, Lambda, CoreWeave, Together AI, Firmus technologies, Sakana AI, Nuro, Imbue, Waabi and many other companies.
Nvidia's investment does not stop at funding but also supports GPU hardware, cloud computing infrastructure and AI technology deployment.
Notable roundups include Ayar Labs (155 million USD), Kore.ai (150 million USD), Sandbox AQ (150 million USD), Hippocratic AI (141 million USD), Weka (140 million USD), Runway (308 million USD), Bright Machines (126 million USD), Enfabrica (125 million USD) and Reka AI (110 million USD).
These investments show that Nvidia is not only a hardware manufacturer but also a creator of a global AI ecosystem, expanding the influence of AI software to computing infrastructure.
In general, Nvidia's investment strategy reflects a long-term vision of becoming the center of the global AI network, not only providing GPUs but also promoting startups to innovate, create new markets and support advanced AI models.
With these strategic investments, Nvidia continues to affirm its leading position in the artificial intelligence era and strengthen its role in shaping the global technology future.
