What is the NVIDIA mafia?

The NVIDIA mafia is the network of 157 people who came through NVIDIA and went on to found or lead other companies, including Groq Inc, Intrepid Labs, Cardinal, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds, L1 Advisors.

Who is in the NVIDIA mafia?

Notable members include Jonathan Ross (Groq Inc), Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Intrepid Labs), Jianna Liu (Cardinal), Saurabh Srivastava (Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds), Alex Sismanis (L1 Advisors), Bhairav Mehta (CharacterQuilt), Gary Lin (Airwork), Neil Movva (Sail Research), among 157 tracked members.

What companies did NVIDIA alumni found?

Companies founded by NVIDIA alumni include Groq Inc, Intrepid Labs, Cardinal, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds, L1 Advisors, CharacterQuilt, Airwork, Sail Research, Struct, Euler Motors.

The NVIDIA Mafia

157 people came through NVIDIA and went on to found or lead other companies.

Jonathan RossChief Software ArchitectFounded Groq Inc Alán Aspuru-GuzikSenior Director of Quantum ChemistryFounded Intrepid Labs +1 Jianna LiuDeep Learning ResearcherFounded Cardinal +1 Saurabh SrivastavaNemotron, Advanced Deep Learning ResearchFounded Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds +1 Alex SismanisAndroid Developer InternFounded L1 Advisors +1 Bhairav MehtaDeep Learning and Robotics ResearchFounded CharacterQuilt +1 Gary LinSoftware Engineer InternFounded Airwork +1 Neil MovvaDeep Learning GPU ArchitectFounded Sail Research +1 Deepan MehtaInternFounded Struct +1 Saurav KumarInternFounded Euler Motors +1 Sergio CharlesDeep Learning ResearchFounded Thesis +1 Michael MarcotteAI Research Engineer - CPU Formal Verification (Internship)Founded Perceptronml +1 Ali GolshanSenior Director, AI ProductsFounded Stackrox +1 Banghua ZhuPrincipal Research ScientistFounded Nexusflow +1 Saket SaurabhSoftware Product ManagerFounded Rubicon Project +1 Frank LiSystems Software Engineer InternFounded Amorphic Labs +1 Felipe AramburuDistinguished Solutions ArchitectFounded Voltron Data +1 Rodrigo AramburuDirector, Data ProcessingFounded Voltron Data +1 Ambuj KumarHardware design leadFounded Fortanix +1 Lawrence IbarriaSoftware Engineering Manager / Execution Manager - AutomotiveFounded ArgusEye +1 Chris SmoakSoftware Developer InternFounded Anchor Health +1 Diana HuSoftware InternFounded Escher Reality Rene HaasVice President & General Manager - Computing Products Business UnitFounded arm Matias SerebrinskyHead of Marketing, Latin AmericaFounded CookUnity Garnet HeramanMember of Inception VC AllianceFounded StrongArm Technologies Michael KoenkaBrand PartnerFounded Boldbeam Luis CezeVP AI Systems Software, CompilersFounded OctoAI Prateek JoshiMachine Learning EngineerFounded Plutoshift Raymond LoDeveloper Advocate Manager - Robotics and Embedded DevicesFounded Meta Lee LiuWeb Software EngineerFounded Mezmo Nic BorenszteinDistinguished Solution ArchitectFounded CrowdAI Musawir ShahSenior Software EngineerFounded Jerry Anirudh RamanathanSoftware ArchitectFounded Signadot Samuel OluwalanaSenior Software EngineerFounded HyperGlue Vijayaraj GopinathSystem Software Engineer InternFounded OneStopKitchen Reza AzizianSenior Packaging Thermal EngineerFounded Ferveret Mokshith VoodarlaRobotics & Computer VisionFounded Sieve Abhinav AyalurEmbedded Software InternFounded Sieve Badal JainSoftware EngineerFounded Layup Noam HertzVerification EngineerFounded Echo Kamil KisielewiczDeep Learning EngineerFounded Interlock Ashwin Venkatesh RamanSystems Software Engineer, TegraFounded Spine AI Eric TaylorSr. ASIC EngineerFounded Baud Schwinn SaereesitthipitakEngineeringFounded Sidenote Sami SahnouneSenior Software EngineerFounded Vizly Akash LevyVLSI CAD InternFounded Silimate Randy SongVerification EngineerFounded sudocode Pasquale AntonanteResearch InternFounded Relari Raunak ChowdhuriAutomous Driving Research InternFounded Reducto Mohammed Al-arnawootSystems Software Engineer InternFounded Draftaid Robert CunninghamVLSI InternFounded Focal Kehinde WilliamsHardware Engineering InternFounded Shepherd Yurii RebrykDeep Learning Research InternFounded Fluently Stanislav BeliaevDeep Learning Research InternFounded Fluently Lucas SwitzerSoftware Engineering InternFounded Arcane Daniel HanMachine Learning EngineerFounded Unsloth AI Alex MaassHardware Engineering InternFounded Invaria Sid ManchkantiSoftwareFounded Pulse Arnav JoshiDeep Learning EngineerFounded Refactor Nithin SontiResearch Engineer InternFounded BrowserOS Towaki TakikawaSoftware Engineer InternFounded Outerport Ethan ChilderhoseASIC Design EngineerFounded Steinmetz William SalcedoSM ASIC PerformanceFounded Partcl Mo NasirAutonomous VehiclesFounded Altrina Ayomide OmolewaSoftware EngineerFounded a0.dev Rahul GudiseSoftware EngineerFounded Gale Nitya AroraAI Developer TechnologyFounded Peppr AI Walter RaftusDriveIX Software InternFounded Forge Automation Tycho SvobodaInfra EngineerFounded TensorPool Joshua MartinezInfrastructure EngineerFounded TensorPool Ilya KelnerSenior Software EngineerFounded Red Barn Robotics Tanya VermaSystems Software Engineering InternFounded Tinfoil Jules DreanResearch InternFounded Tinfoil Aaron YuSoftware Engineer InternFounded QualGent Shreyas KarC++ Software Intern - AI StreamingFounded Golpo Nicole MaInternFounded Topological Bishesh KhadkaSoftware Engineer InternFounded Imprezia Steven SegawaLead ML Data ScientistFounded Wedge Rithvik ChuppalaSoftware & Hardware EngineeringFounded CLODO Daniel AjayiASIC Design InternFounded Sorce Kazuki ShinMachine Learning Engineer - Autonomous VehiclesFounded Kaigo Health Sam KaruSoftware Engineer, Deep Learning Inference WorkflowsFounded Logical Daniel KatheinEngineeringFounded Absurd Ragav SachdevaIntern (PhD)Founded TakeCareOS Rohan SinghComputer Aided Design EngineerFounded OctaPulse Luc RosenzweigEngineering InternFounded Incandor Sean WuML Research InternFounded Synphony Ayman SalehSoftware Engineer Intern 👨🏻‍💻Founded Chronicle Labs Nick PilkingtonSoftware EngineerFounded Drone Deploy Sarthak AggarwalSystem Software EngineerFounded Decawork Flora Ponjou TassePrincipal ML EngineerFounded Selerio Sid PardeshiSoftware Architect (MBA Intern)Founded Blitzy Zain AsgarSr. Engineer (Software for GPU power infrastructure)Founded Gimlet Labs Pramod SharmaSenior Software EngineerFounded Napkin Jason MaAI Research ScientistFounded Dyna Robotics Devesh MittalSenior ASIC Design EngineerFounded Exaforce

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Frequently asked questions

What is the NVIDIA mafia?: The NVIDIA mafia is the network of 157 people who came through NVIDIA and went on to found or lead other companies, including Groq Inc, Intrepid Labs, Cardinal, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds, L1 Advisors.
Who is in the NVIDIA mafia?: Notable members include Jonathan Ross (Groq Inc), Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Intrepid Labs), Jianna Liu (Cardinal), Saurabh Srivastava (Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds), Alex Sismanis (L1 Advisors), Bhairav Mehta (CharacterQuilt), Gary Lin (Airwork), Neil Movva (Sail Research), among 157 tracked members.
What companies did NVIDIA alumni found?: Companies founded by NVIDIA alumni include Groq Inc, Intrepid Labs, Cardinal, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds, L1 Advisors, CharacterQuilt, Airwork, Sail Research, Struct, Euler Motors.