NVentures
Corporate VCSanta Clara Β· Pre-SeedβSeries A
Investment thesis
NVentures is the corporate venture arm of NVIDIA, focused on a curated portfolio of companies advancing AI infrastructure, robotics, digital biology, applied AI, frontier compute, and related breakthrough fields. It seeks technology visionaries tackling complex problems and aims to build long-term partnerships with strong teams. Beyond capital, it provides portfolio companies access to NVIDIA's technical teams, platform integrations, and go-to-market support, helping them embed NVIDIA technologies such as Nemotron and BioNeMo into their products and tap into NVIDIA's broader ecosystem.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
What they invest in
from 57 of 65 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning Γ44Deep Tech Γ25Robotics Γ14Enterprise Software Γ11Biotech Γ10Hardware Γ8Advanced Manufacturing Γ7Developer Tools Γ7
HQs:United StatesΓ32AustraliaΓ1SwitzerlandΓ1FranceΓ1United KingdomΓ1
Investments Β· 65 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 Β· 12023 Β· 32020 Β· 15 dated
Generate:Biomedicines develops protein-based therapeutics using artificial intelligence and machine learning in a field it calls Generative Biology, combining computational protein design with biological engineering.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSomerville, US
Gevorg Grigoryan(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)
Quantinuum develops quantum computers and quantum software solutions for applications in drug discovery, healthcare, materials science, cybersecurity, and energy.
Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareQuantum ComputingBroomfield, US
Ilyas Khan(Chief Product Officer)Rajeeb Hazra(President and CEO)Avinash Palaniswamy(Chief Commercial Officer)Susan Schwamberger(Chief Human Resources Officer and SVP Operations)Jennifer Strabley(VP and General Manager, Compute Products)Waseem Shiraz(Senior VP Strategic Initiatives & Chief of Staff)
Robotics company advancing physical AI with NVIDIA.
Abridge builds AI software that converts clinical conversations into structured insights for healthcare providers.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechPhiladelphia, US
Shiv Rao(Founder & CEO)Julia Chapin(Executive Officer)Sagar Sanghvi(Executive Officer)
BoardAndy Weissman(Director)inSebastian Duesterhoeft(Director)inWill Reed(Director)in
Adaptive Security provides security awareness training, phishing attack simulation, and email security solutions designed to defend against AI-powered attacks, deepfakes, and social engineering threats.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Brian Long(Founder & CEO)in
Agility Robotics develops and deploys humanoid robots for warehouse automation and logistics operations.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSalem, US
Jonathan Hurst(Co-founder & Chief Robot Officer)inDamion Shelton(Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board)in
BoardBruce Leak(Director)inMatthew Ocko(Director)in
Bedrock Robotics develops autonomous robotic systems for construction sites, applying self-driving vehicle technology to address skilled labor shortages in building, energy, data centers, and factories.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechRobotics
Boris Sofman(Founder & CEO)inKevin Peterson(Founder)Ajay Gummalla(Founder)
Carbon Robotics builds AI-powered agricultural equipment, including the LaserWeeder for herbicide-free weed control and Carbon Autonomy Kits that add self-driving capability to John Deere tractors.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Daniel Corkum(Director)Rosanna Myers(Executive Officer, Director)Paul Mikesell(Founder & CEO)Douglas Downs(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJay Lichter(Director)
CHARM is a biotech company developing a next-generation menin inhibitor for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), designed to address resistance seen with first-generation approaches.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech
CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code review tools for developers to improve software quality and efficiency in development workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsWalnut Creek, US
Harjot Gill(Executive Officer, Director)Guritfaq Singh(Executive Officer, Director)Vishavjeet Kaur(Executive Officer)Alex Berkenkamp(Executive Officer)
Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops commercial fusion power plants using high-temperature superconducting magnet technology to provide grid-scale energy.
CleantechClimate TechDeep TechEnergyCambridge, US
Brandon Sorbom(Founder)Robert Mumgaard(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Brunner(Executive Officer)
BoardMassimiliano Pieri(Director)Katie Rae(Director)inAlan Eustace(Director)
Contextual AI builds a platform for enterprises to develop AI agents and applications that operate securely on proprietary data.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Douwe Kiela(Founder)Amanpreet Singh(Founder)
Edison Scientific builds AI agents for scientific research, enabling researchers and industries to accelerate discovery across biology, chemistry, physics, and related domains.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSan Franciso, US
Andrew White(CTO, Co-Founder)inSam Rodriques(CEO, Co-Founder)in
BoardNick Leschly(Director)Jeff Huber(Director)in
Emerald AI develops software to enable power flexibility in data centers by orchestrating power demand in response to grid needs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnergyBoston, US
Dr. Varun Sivaram(CEO and Founder)Varun Sivaram(Co-founder)inAyse Coskun(Chief Scientist)in
An informational website that explains how to enable JavaScript across the five most commonly used web browsers, aimed at end users and web developers.
Developer Tools
Exa is an AI-powered search API that retrieves high-quality information from the web in real-time, designed for AI agents, developers, and applications that require precise natural-language search capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
William Bryk(co-founder/CEO)inJeffrey Wang(Founder)inWalden Yan(Co-Founder)
NVIDIA designs and manufactures GPU processors and accelerated computing platforms that power artificial intelligence, deep learning, and high-performance computing applications.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsSanta Clara, US
Fal provides fast inference for generative AI models, particularly for image and video generation tasks like SDXL and Whisper.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Gorkem Yurtseven(Founder & CEO)inBurkay Gur(Founder)in
BoardSteve Jang(Director)inJennifer Li(Director)inGlenn Solomon(Director)in
FieldAI builds foundation models and AI systems for robots operating in unstructured field environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRoboticsAustin, US
Ali Agha(CEO)inShayegan Omidshafiei(AI and Science Lead)inDavid Fan(Chief Technology Officer)inSebastian Scherer(Director of Fieldable Embodied AI)
Flexion develops the autonomy stack for humanoid robots, building software for perception, motion generation, and whole-body control to make them adaptive systems that can operate in real-world environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsZurich, CH
Nikita Rudin(Co-founder & CEO)David HΓΆller(Co-founder & CTO)Julian Nubert(Co-founder)Fabian Tischhauser(Co-founder)Marco Hutter(Co-founder)
Flywheel provides a platform for organizing, managing, and sharing medical imaging data.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureHealthtechMedical DevicesMinneapolis, US
Brian Wandell(Co-founder)Gunnar Schaefer(Co-founder)Colby Moosman(Executive Officer)Matthew D. Michela(Executive Officer, Director)Sarah Fazio(Executive Officer)Jim Olson(Executive Officer)
Generalist develops embodied foundation models for robots, focusing on dexterity and enabling machines to intelligently interact with the physical world.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsBay Area, Boston, US
Andy Zeng(Founder)in
Inceptive builds foundation models of biological systems for drug discovery, specializing in sequence-based medicines like mRNA and peptides.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical DevicesPalo Alto, US
Jakob Uszkoreit(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kevin Heyries(Executive Officer)Diana Isabel Ajuria(Executive Officer)Do Soon Kim(Executive Officer)
BoardVijay S. Pande(Director)in
Instrumental provides an AI platform that captures inspection, test, and process signals across factory builds and production lines, turning them into a shared engineering dataset to detect failure modes early and automate root-cause analysis.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardware
Luma Labs builds AI agents that generate, understand, and operate in the physical world, enabling creative teams to rapidly produce video, image, audio, and text content with unified general intelligence driving creative workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentPalo Alto, US
Amit Jain(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Sixian Yu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardDavid Beyer(Director)in
Luminary offers a platform that lets engineering teams encode physics into AI models, providing near-instant high-fidelity predictions of physical behavior across structural, fluids, thermal, and electromagnetics domains.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSan Mateo, US
Jason Lango(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Schlampp(Executive Officer, Director)inSudhir MenoninUtpal BhattinEdward Frye(CISO)in
BoardT.J. Rylander(General Partner at N47)
Machina Labs builds and operates software-defined factories using AI-guided robotics to manufacture complex metal structures and components from digital designs.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsChatsworth, US
Edward Mehr(Executive Officer, Director)Babak Raeisi Nia(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPeter Lee(Director)Scott Brady(Director)inSam Smith-Eppsteiner(Director)in
MindsDB builds open-source infrastructure for AI-augmented analytics and data work, enabling users to interact with their data through natural language.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Adam Carrigan(Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer)inJorge Torres(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)in
Moon Surgical develops the Maestro robotic surgery system, a digital surgical robotics platform used by surgeons to perform procedures.
HealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsParis, FR
Brice Gayet(Founder)Anne Osdoit(Chief Executive Officer)inEric Ermenault(Chief Commercial Officer)inAnne Renevot(Chief Financial Officer)inViola Fleig(Chief Operations Officer)inDavid Noonan(Chief Technology Officer)in
Neocis develops Yomi, a robotic surgical platform that assists clinicians during dental implant surgery with planning, surgical, and restorative software features.
HealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsMiami, US
Alon Mozes(CEO & Co-Founder)inJuan Salcedo(Engineering Fellow & Co-Founder)inDennis Moses(Chief Technical Officer)inAndres Carrillo(VP of Product)inJorge Fernandes(VP of Quality & Regulatory)inGabe Goldberg(VP of Marketing)in
AI company developing a medical search engine used by physicians for clinical decision support.
Outrider develops automated yard operations technology for supply chain logistics, focusing on improving efficiency, safety, and sustainability through autonomous equipment and yard management systems.
CleantechLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsBrighton, US
Andrew F. Smith(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Robert Hall(Executive Officer)Paul Sung Cha(Executive Officer)
BoardByron Knight(Director)Mark Norman(Director)Aaron Jacobson(Director)in
PassiveLogic develops AI systems for autonomous building control and operations.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoTSalt Lake City, US
TROY HARVEY(Executive Officer, Director)JEREMY FILLINGIM(Executive Officer, Director)JOHN RAPAPORT(Director)
Physical Intelligence develops generalist AI models for robotics that can control any robot to perform various tasks through learning algorithms and multi-robot training.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Sergey Levine(Founder)
PolyAI builds an agentic dialog platform that enables enterprises to deploy voice AI agents for handling complex customer service conversations at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Nikola MrkΕ‘iΔ(Co-founder & CEO)Shawn Wen(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Eddy Su(Co-founder & SVP Engineering)
PsiQuantum builds fault-tolerant quantum computers using photonic qubits and semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsMoreton Bay, AU
Prof. Jeremy O'Brien(Co-founder & Executive Chairman)Prof. Terry Rudolph(Co-founder & Chief Architect)Dr. Pete Shadbolt(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)Prof. Mark Thompson(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Victor Peng(Chief Executive Officer)
QuEra develops neutral-atom quantum computers, building both the quantum hardware and the classical control systems that operate them, along with related software and applications.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing
Nate Gemelke(Co-founder, Chief Technology Strategist)Vladan VuletiΔ(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)inMikhail Lukin(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Markus Greiner(Co-founder)Takuya Kitagawa(President)inDean Bogdanovic(SVP Engineering)in
Redwood Materials deploys large-scale energy storage systems for data centers and grid power while recycling batteries to recover critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper as a domestic source of these materials.
Circular EconomyEnergyNew MaterialsCarson City, US
JB Straubel(Founder & CEO)inKevin Kassekert(Executive Officer)Jason Thompson(Executive Officer)
BoardDavid Danielson(Director)in
Relation is an end-to-end biotech company that combines single-cell multi-omics from patient tissue, functional assays, and machine learning to identify druggable targets and develop therapies for serious diseases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Building frontier world models and AI video generation tools.
Skild develops AI software and robotics systems that enable robots to operate autonomously in unstructured, real-world environments, performing tasks like navigation, grasping, and inspection without constant human intervention.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Deepak Pathak(Founder)Abhinav Gupta(Founder)in
Superluminal Medicines is a drug discovery company that uses its Hyperloop platform, combining AI/ML, protein dynamics, and structural biology with experimental validation, to develop small molecule therapeutics.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech
TerraPower develops advanced nuclear reactors and related technologies to generate carbon-free electricity and heat for industrial decarbonization, while also producing radioisotopes for medical cancer treatments.
Climate TechDeep TechEnergyWyoming, US
Bill Gates
Terraytx develops therapeutics and approaches to drug discovery; the company emphasizes collaborative, multidisciplinary research to advance scientific innovation in the life sciences space.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
BoardChris PicardoinDusan PerovicSid ShenaiinSamuel BjorkinBassil Dahiyat, Ph.D.Wendy Young, Ph.D.
Exits Β· 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioGenerate BiomedicinesNASDAQ: GENBQuantinuumNASDAQ: QNT
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCarbon Robotics Β· substack.exponentialindustry.com Β· Aug 16, 2026
Factory Β· vegconomist.com Β· Aug 14, 2026
CodeRabbit Β· coderabbit.ai Β· Aug 12, 2026
Generate Biomedicines Β· stocktitan.net Β· Aug 6, 2026
Emerald AI Β· cryptobriefing.com Β· Aug 3, 2026
Basecamp Β· community.startuptalky.com Β· Jul 31, 2026
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Β· techcrunch.com Β· Jul 30, 2026
Aidoc Β· techcrunch.com Β· Jul 30, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does NVentures invest at?
- NVentures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does NVentures focus on?
- NVentures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cloud Computing, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Robotics, SaaS, Semiconductors.
- Where is NVentures located?
- NVentures is headquartered in Santa Clara, US.
- Does NVentures lead rounds?
- NVentures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Media Β· Podcasts & interviews
from their channelGTC SJ 2026: The AI Native Digital Health Stack A Developer's Guide to 2026
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How BharatGen is building India AI with NVIDIA Nemotron
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GTC SJ 2026: Next Generation Intelligent Surgical Robots
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Powering Agentic AI with AI-Ready Data Platforms That Turn Data Into Intelligence
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NVIDIA & Wistron: Reindustrializing America With Advanced Manufacturing
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NVIDIA Keynote Live at SIGGRAPH 2026
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