NVentures
NVIDIA's corporate venture capital arm, making its first UK investment via Orbital Industries' $50m Series B.
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Does NVIDIA backing a UK deeptech startup guarantee it will be built into NVIDIA's hardware ecosystem?
Timeline for NVentures
Entered Orbital's cap table for first time via Series B
UK Startups and Innovation: Orbital's $50m raise has no UK lead- What is NVentures and how does it differ from NVIDIA's core business?
- NVentures is Nvidia's corporate venture capital Arm, investing in AI startups across generative AI, autonomous systems and sustainable computing. Unlike Nvidia's product divisions, NVentures takes minority equity stakes to build ecosystem relationships and spot emerging hardware use cases.Source: NVentures / CNBC
- Which UK startups has NVIDIA invested in through NVentures?
- NVentures has backed UK AI startups including Orbital Industries (AI materials, Series B May 2026), PolyAI (voice AI, $86m Series D) and Synthesia (video AI, $200m Series E), alongside a broader £2bn Nvidia commitment to the UK ecosystem.Source: CNBC
- Why did NVentures invest in Orbital Industries specifically?
- Orbital's atomic-simulation engine runs on Nvidia GPUs; its PFAS-free cooling fluid is designed for GPU racks. NVentures had previously backed Orbital and followed on in the $50m Series B, alongside an AWS product partnership, signalling hardware-to-hyperscaler commercialisation.Source: Fortune
Background
NVentures is the corporate venture Arm of Nvidia, focused on AI infrastructure, generative AI, autonomous systems and sustainable computing. It co-invested in Orbital Industries' $50m Series B in May 2026 — its first publicly confirmed entry into UK deeptech. Orbital was an existing portfolio company (NVentures had previously backed it), making the Series B a follow-on and a signal of deepening commitment to AI-materials innovation.
NVentures sits alongside Nvidia's broader UK investment strategy: in 2025, Nvidia announced a £2bn commitment to the UK AI startup ecosystem, with Balderton, Accel, Air Street Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Phoenix Court as co-investors targeting London, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester. European portfolio highlights include CuspAI ($100m materials-AI round), PolyAI ($86m Series D) and Synthesia ($200m Series E).
For UK deeptech, NVentures' participation has two effects: it accelerates commercialisation by signalling hardware compatibility and access to Nvidia's ecosystem, and it typically precedes or accompanies strategic product partnerships, as seen with the simultaneous Orbital–AWS deal.