NVIDIA
US chipmaker investing in AI startups via NVentures; backed Nscale and PhysicsX
- Corporate VC
- Type
- Corporate VC
- Based in
- Outside the UK
- Stages
- Series A, Series B+, Growth
- Sector focus
- AI & Data, Deeptech, Hardware & Robotics, Healthtech
- Fund size
- Undisclosed
- Founded
- 1993
- Website
- nvidia.com
NVIDIA, the Santa Clara-based accelerated-computing and GPU company founded in 1993, invests in startups through NVentures, its corporate venture capital arm, alongside strategic investments made from its own balance sheet. It typically joins later rounds of AI infrastructure, model, robotics, healthcare and industrial-AI companies that build on its platforms, and runs the Inception programme for earlier-stage AI startups. In the UK it participated in the 2025 Series B of London AI-cloud provider Nscale and the 2026 USD 300 million Series C of London engineering-AI company PhysicsX. Cheque sizes are not disclosed and vary widely with the round.
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