Nvidia has skyrocketed its investments and deals with start-up technologies during this year, in some cases with multi-million dollar operations. In total, transactions carried out in this segment by the artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant exceed 140 billion dollars (nearly 119 billion euros).
In 2025, Nvidia, the world’s largest company by market capitalization with more than 4.6 billion, closed more than 60 transactions in new innovative companies linked to the rise of AI. With its investment strategy, the company seeks to expand the AI ecosystem based on its technology, to, in parallel, stimulate demand for its high-performance chips.
The latest deal, announced on Christmas Eve, is the licensing deal with Groq, which could reach a value of $20 billion, in one of the largest corporate deals in Nvidia’s history. Groq, a pioneer in the field of AI inference, announced a new funding round of $750 million last September. As part of the new agreement, Jonathan Ross, founder of to start up and LPU (Language Processing Unit) technology specialist Sunny Madra, Chairman of the to start upand other team members will join Nvidia to drive and evolve the licensed technology. The Groq deal “appears to be a move to absorb the company’s differentiated inference technology and engineering talent.” to start up of AI chips”, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Markets received the transaction positively and Nvidia stock resumed its rise during Friday’s session, at times rising to the $190 level.
If there is one operation that has shaken the entire global technology industry, it is the alliance between Nvidia and OpenAI, announced last September, which provided for an investment of 100 billion dollars in to start up by Sam Altman through different sections.
Similarly, last November, Nvidia and Microsoft agreed to a $15 billion strategic investment in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI. In the case of Jensen Huang’s company, the contribution committed was 10 billion.
Nvidia also supported xAI’s Series C funding round, the to start up of AI promoted by Elon Musk, which represented around 20 billion dollars. Huang’s company, which has supported many projects promoted by the tycoon, has committed an investment of nearly 2 billion. The funding was intended to finance the purchase of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) for xAI’s “Colossus 2” data center in Memphis (USA). The round was structured through a special purpose vehicle, comprising equity and debt.
In this race, Nvidia also supported the IPO last spring of CoreWeave, in which it was an investor by taking between 5% and 7% of the capital. This stake is currently said to be worth between $1,950 million and $2,700 million, although it has fluctuated throughout the year due to sharp fluctuations in CoreWeave’s stock. Last September, the two groups signed an agreement to purchase CoreWeave’s cloud computing capacity until April 2032, valued at 6.3 billion.
Nvidia has also become a leading strategic investor and technology provider after participating in a series of Figure AI projects, a to start up which develops humanoid robots.
Outside of the US, Nvidia invested in French company Mistral’s series funding round, which topped $2 billion, alongside other groups such as ASML Holdings, DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures and Lightspeed. The company also committed to investing up to $1 billion in Poolside, a to start up French AI company specializing in automated software and coding assistants.
Additionally, in the fall, Nvidia participated in the rounds of Nscale, a service provider cloud for London-based AI, which moved over 1.5 billion. In the second, the chip giant invested 433 million, thus strengthening its position as a strategic partner of the to start up. In total, Nvidia’s investment exceeded 683 million.
Additionally, as part of its operations, Nvidia in September signed an agreement of intent for a $500 million investment in autonomous vehicle technology company Wayve.
Apart from the start-upAs part of its investment activity, Nvidia has carried out notable transactions with listed companies. Thus, the company accepted an investment of 5 billion dollars in Intel, as part of the strong restructuring of the historic chip manufacturer, in which SoftBank and the US government itself also participated. He also signed an agreement to invest 1 billion in Nokia, with a 3% stake, with the future 6G as a backdrop.
Nvidia also joined the consortium led by BlackRock-Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for the purchase of Aligned Data Centers, the largest in data center history, valued at $40 billion.
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