Corporate investor in listed AI tools
NVIDIA
NVIDIA has backed 38 companies behind 76 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Anthropic Strategic investment commitment, November 2025
- Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- Claude Code C · Agent harnesses
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Baseten Series E, January 2026
Source baseten.co/blog/series-e
Black Forest Labs Series B, December 2025
humans& ai, inc. Seed, 2026
Source humansand.ai
Anthropic, PBC Strategic investment commitment, November 2025
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Cohere Funding round, August 2025 (second close September 2025)
- Cohere Chat API (Command models) B · Model APIs & inference
- Cohere Embed and Rerank BB · Embeddings & rerankers
- Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 C · Speech-to-text
Source cohere.com/blog/…
Cohere Inc. Funding round, August 2025 (second close September 2025)
Source cohere.com/blog/…
Crusoe Series D, December 2024, Series E, October 2025, Series F, September 2026
Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-d
Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography) Series D, November 2025
Source cursor.com/blog/series-d
Factory Series B, September 2025, led a round, through Nvidia
Source factory.com/news/series-b
Elorian
Source elorian.ai
Exa Seed and Series A, July 2024, Series B, September 2025, through NVentures
Source exa.ai/blog/series-a
fal (Features & Labels, Inc.) Series D, December 2025, through NVentures
- fal image models B · Image generation
- fal music models B · Music generation
- fal video models B · Video generation
Source pulse2.com/…
Fireworks AI Series D, July 2026
Source fireworks.ai/news/…
Fireworks.ai, Inc. Series D, July 2026
Source fireworks.ai/news/…
OpenAI $6.6B round, October 2024
- GPT-Live B · Conversational voice agents
- gpt-oss-120b BB · Open-weight models
- gpt-oss-20b B · Open-weight models
- OpenAI Agents SDK AA · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- OpenAI API A · Model APIs & inference
- OpenAI Codex BB · Agent harnesses
- OpenAI Decisions API BB · Decision models
- Dots F · Personal assistants
- OpenAI embeddings BB · Embeddings & rerankers
- OpenAI Guardrails B · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Image API BB · Image generation
- OpenAI Moderation API BB · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Realtime API B · Conversational voice agents
- OpenAI Speech to Text BB · Speech-to-text
Source nbcnews.com/business/…
Groq Series A, August 2026
Source groq.com/newsroom/…
Hark Labs, Inc. Series A, May 2026
Source hark.com/articles/…
Thinking Machines Lab Seed, July 2025, Strategic investment, March 2026, through Nvidia
Source thinkingmachines.ai/news/…
Poolside Series B, October 2024, through Nvidia
- Laguna M.1 C · Open-weight models
- Laguna S 2.1 C · Open-weight models
- Laguna XS 2.1 C · Open-weight models
Source techcrunch.com/?p=2890864
Lambda Series D, February 2025
Source lambda.ai/blog/…
Luma AI Series A, March 2023, through NVIDIA ventures
Source lumalabs.ai/about
Mistral AI Series C, September 2025
- Mistral AI API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed C · Embeddings & rerankers
- Mistral Moderation API C · Guardrails & safety filters
- Mistral OCR API C · Document parsing & extraction
- Mistral Vibe CLI B · Agent harnesses
- Mistral Voxtral Transcribe B · Speech-to-text
- Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 C · Speech-to-text
Source mistral.ai/news/…
n8n through NVentures
Source n8n.io/press
OpenRouter Series B, May 2026, through NVentures
Source openrouter.ai/blog/…
Perplexity Series B, January 2024
- SPACE C · Code execution sandboxes
- pplx-decider B · Decision models
- pplx-decider-flash B · Decision models
Source perplexity.ai/hub/blog/…
Prime Intellect Series A, July 2026, through NVIDIA Ventures
Recraft Series B extension, July 2025
Source recraft.ai/press-releases/…
Recursive Funding round, May 2026, through Nvidia
Source tech.eu/2026/05/13/…
Reflection
Source reflection.ai/blog/…
Replicate Series B, December 2023, through NVentures (NVIDIA)
Source replicate.com/blog/series-b
Replicate (Cloudflare) Series B, December 2023, through NVentures (NVIDIA)
- Replicate image models D · Image generation
- MusicGen on Replicate C · Music generation
- Replicate video models B · Video generation
Source replicate.com/blog/series-b
Runway Series C extension, June 2023, Series D, April 2025, Series E, February 2026
Source runway.com/news/…
Together AI Series A, November 2023, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2026
Source together.ai/blog/series-a
Together Computer, Inc. Series A, November 2023, Series B, February 2025, Series C, July 2026
Source together.ai/blog/series-a
Unstructured Series B, March 2024, through NVentures
Source pillsburylaw.com/en/…
You.com Series B, September 2024
Where they invest
Model APIs & inference 10 Open-weight models 8 Agent harnesses 7 Decision models 5 Image generation 5 Speech-to-text 5 GPU & serverless compute 4 Personal assistants 4 Video generation 4 Agent frameworks & SDKs 3 Embeddings & rerankers 3 Fine-tuning 3 Guardrails & safety filters 3 Web search APIs 2 Music generation 2 Conversational voice agents 2 Document parsing & extraction 2 Code execution sandboxes 2 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Workflow automation 1
Founders they backed
- Dario Amodei Anthropic
- Daniela Amodei Anthropic
- Tom Brown Anthropic
- Jack Clark Anthropic
- Jared Kaplan Anthropic
- Sam McCandlish Anthropic
- Chris Olah Anthropic
- Tuhin Srivastava Baseten
- Amir Haghighat Baseten
- Phil Howes Baseten
- Pankaj Gupta Baseten
- Eric Zelikman humans& ai, inc.
- Georges Harik humans& ai, inc.
- Noah D. Goodman humans& ai, inc.
- Yuchen He humans& ai, inc.
- Andi Peng humans& ai, inc.
- Karan Ahuja Anthropic, PBC
- Aidan Gomez Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- Nick Frosst Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- Ivan Zhang Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- Michael Truell Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Sualeh Asif Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Aman Sanger Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Arvid Lunnemark Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary
- Matan Grinberg Factory
- Eno Reyes Factory
- Andrew Dai Elorian
- Yinfei Yang Elorian
- Seth Neel Elorian
- William Bryk Exa
- Jeffrey Wang Exa
- Burkay Gur fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Gorkem Yurtseven fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Lin Qiao Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Benny Chen Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Dmytro Dzhulgakov Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Pawel Garbacki Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Dmytro Ivchenko Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- James Reed Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Chenyu Zhao Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
- Sam Altman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Elon Musk OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Ilya Sutskever OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- John Schulman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Wojciech Zaremba OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Trevor Blackwell OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Vicki Cheung OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Andrej Karpathy OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Durk Kingma OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Pamela Vagata OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Jonathan Ross Groq
- Douglas Wightman Groq
- Brett Adcock Hark Labs, Inc.
- Mira Murati Thinking Machines Lab
- John Schulman Thinking Machines Lab
- Jason Warner Poolside
- Eiso Kant Poolside
- Stephen Balaban Lambda
- Michael Balaban Lambda
- Amit Jain Luma AI
- Alex Yu Luma AI
- Alberto Taiuti Luma AI
- Arthur Mensch Mistral AI
- Guillaume Lample Mistral AI
- Timothee Lacroix Mistral AI
- Alex Atallah OpenRouter
- Chris Clark OpenRouter
- Louis Vichy OpenRouter
- Aravind Srinivas Perplexity
- Denis Yarats Perplexity
- Johnny Ho Perplexity
- Andy Konwinski Perplexity
- Richard Socher Recursive
- Ben Firshman Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)
- Andreas Jansson Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare)
- Vipul Ved Prakash Together Computer, Inc.
- Ce Zhang Together Computer, Inc.
- Tri Dao Together Computer, Inc.
- Chris Ré Together Computer, Inc.
- Percy Liang Together Computer, Inc.
- Brian S. Raymond Unstructured
- Richard Socher You.com
Questions
Which AI tools has NVIDIA invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Baseten, Black Forest Labs, humans& ai, inc., Anthropic, PBC, Cohere, Cohere Inc., Crusoe, Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary, Anysphere, Inc. / Cursor (acquired by SpaceX per engineer biography), Factory, Elorian, Exa, fal (Features & Labels, Inc.), Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc., OpenAI, Groq, Hark Labs, Inc., Thinking Machines Lab, Poolside, Lambda, Luma AI, Mistral AI, n8n, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Prime Intellect, Recraft, Recursive, Reflection, Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare), Runway, Together AI, Together Computer, Inc., Unstructured and You.com backed by NVIDIA.
How are NVIDIA's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), Black Forest Labs FLUX API (B, 64.1), Boba (F, 10.7), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Cohere Chat API (Command models) (B, 64.7), Cohere Embed and Rerank (BB, 72.5), Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 (C, 59.3), Cohere North (C, 55.1), Crusoe Cloud (B, 63.4), Cursor Agent SDK (B, 63.6), Cursor CLI (F, 35.4), Droid CLI (C, 59.1), Glimpse (D, 49), Exa API + MCP (B, 66.1), fal image models (B, 65.5), fal music models (B, 68.5), fal video models (B, 69.1), Fireworks AI Fine-tuning (C, 59.1), Fireworks AI Inference (BB, 73.5), GPT-Live (B, 66.9), gpt-oss-120b (BB, 70.2), gpt-oss-20b (B, 69.9), OpenAI Agents SDK (AA, 86.2), OpenAI API (A, 82.9), OpenAI Codex (BB, 73.5), OpenAI Decisions API (BB, 73.1), Dots (F, 28.8), OpenAI embeddings (BB, 72.2), OpenAI Guardrails (B, 69.5), OpenAI Image API (BB, 72.4), OpenAI Moderation API (BB, 71.4), OpenAI Realtime API (B, 63.4), OpenAI Speech to Text (BB, 72.6), GroqCloud (BB, 74.5), Groq Speech-to-Text (BB, 71.8), Hark Pro (F, 21.9), Inkling (B, 64.2), Inkling-Small (B, 66.5), Tinker (D, 51.2), Laguna M.1 (C, 55.5), Laguna S 2.1 (C, 61), Laguna XS 2.1 (C, 61), Lambda Cloud (D, 50.1), Luma AI API (D, 48.3), Mistral AI API (BB, 71.2), Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed (C, 58), Mistral Moderation API (C, 58.4), Mistral OCR API (C, 58.8), Mistral Vibe CLI (B, 63), Mistral Voxtral Transcribe (B, 64.2), Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 (C, 60.3), n8n API + MCP (D, 53.2), OpenRouter (B, 68.6), SPACE (C, 56.4), pplx-decider (B, 68.2), pplx-decider-flash (B, 68), Prime Agent (C, 60.5), Recraft API (D, 52.9), Recursive Flint (C, 61), Beam 1.0 (D, 53.4), Mirror CLI (C, 54.3), Replicate Deployments (B, 63.7), Replicate image models (D, 50.3), MusicGen on Replicate (C, 54.4), Replicate video models (B, 62.2), Runway API (C, 60.8), Together Code Sandbox (D, 53.7), Together AI Fine-tuning (C, 54.8), Together AI Inference (B, 67.8), Unstructured API + MCP (D, 47.2) and You.com APIs (BB, 75.9).
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