NVIDIA’s Venture Capital Arm # NVentures We invest in technology visionaries solving complex problems. Through a unique mix of expertise and resources, we build long-term partnerships with generational teams to accelerate their journey. ## Deep Dives Built on Accelerated Computing [ ](/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/deep-learning/startups/venture-capital/skild-ai-robot.mp4) **Robotics and Edge AI** ### Skild AI Skild AI is building a universal robot brain capable of controlling any robot, for any task, across any environment. Its omni-bodied foundation model trains on physics-based simulation using NVIDIA Isaac™ Lab and Cosmos™, enabling robots to adapt to new embodiments and skills with zero or minimal retraining, including recovering from mechanical failures in real time. [Read Skild AI Case Study](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/skild-ai.md) **AI Factory** ### Emerald AI Emerald AI is turning energy-intensive AI factories into intelligent grid assets. Its Conductor platform orchestrates compute workloads alongside onsite generation and batteries to deliver grid-responsive flexibility while protecting AI tenant quality of service. Working with NVIDIA and leading energy companies including AES, Constellation, and NextEra Energy, Emerald AI helps AI factories connect to the grid faster and unlock untapped grid capacity across the U.S. [Read Emerald AI Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-emerald-ai-join-leading-energy-companies-to-pioneer-flexible-ai-factories-as-grid-assets) [Watch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsBobT9INP4) **Science** ### Edison Scientific Edison Scientific is building Kosmos, an autonomous AI scientist that compresses months of expert literature analysis into a single day of compute, serving researchers at universities, national labs, and healthcare organizations. Its platform uses NVIDIA Nemotron™ Parse to extract figures, tables, and equations from scientific papers with high precision, powering a multi-agent system that autonomously synthesizes scientific literature and generates new research hypotheses at scale. [Read Edison Case Study](https://developer.nvidia.com/case-studies/scientific-literature-ai-nvidia-nemotron) [Watch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyE4mu0Yhw) --- ## Spotlights Portfolio Voices > We’re delighted to partner with NVIDIA and NVentures across technical and go-to-market fronts. NVIDIA uses CodeRabbit company-wide for their internal code review needs, their engineering teams have helped us embed open Nemotron models into our product, and they’ve opened doors to bring our AI code reviews across the enterprise ecosystem. — Harjot Gill, CEO, CodeRabbit > Working with NVentures and NVIDIA’s technical teams has been invaluable. They share our conviction that AI’s greatest enterprise impact will come from specialized systems that deeply understand proprietary data and expert domains—not generic tools. Together, we’re making AI work where it matters most. — Douwe Kiela, CEO and Cofounder, Contextual AI > Instrumental collaborates with NVIDIA to accelerate the manufacturing and delivery of AI trays and racks. Our technology enables NVIDIA and its partners to discover failures early and enforce manufacturing controls across factories, improving yield at scale. — Anna-Katrina Shedletsky CEO and Founder, Instrumental > OpenEvidence and NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to more than 40% of physicians in the U.S. Together, they are accelerating how clinicians access real-time, evidence-based answers—directly within the tools and workflows doctors already use. Built using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform, OpenEvidence delivers instant, peer-reviewed clinical guidance at the point of care, helping physicians make faster, more confident decisions for their patients. — Daniel Nadler, CEO, OpenEvidence > Building frontier world models requires the right partners. NVIDIA has been with us from the early days, and their commitment to this space has been extremely helpful as we’ve scaled. — Cristóbal Valenzuela, Cofounder and Co-CEO, Runway Previous Next 1. Quote 1 2. Quote 2 3. Quote 1 4. Quote 1 5. Quote 3 --- ## Portfolio ## Investing in What Comes Next A curated portfolio of companies advancing AI infrastructure, robotics, digital biology, applied AI, frontier compute, and beyond. [See Complete Portfolio](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups/nventures/portfolio.md) --- **Resources** ## The Latest From NVentures Explore NVIDIA press releases featuring NVentures portfolio companies across AI factories, digital biology, and physical AI. 1. News 2. Sessions ### NVIDIA and Emerald AI Pioneer Flexible AI Factories NVIDIA and Emerald AI are working with leading energy companies to help AI factories connect to the grid faster and operate as flexible energy assets. [Read Emerald AI Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-emerald-ai-join-leading-energy-companies-to-pioneer-flexible-ai-factories-as-grid-assets) ### Basecamp Research Scales AI Models for Drug Design With NVIDIA BioNeMo Basecamp Research is using NVIDIA BioNeMo™ to advance EDEN, its family of AI models for drug design and genetic medicine. [Read BioNeMo Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-bionemo-platform-adopted-by-life-sciences-leaders-to-accelerate-ai-driven-drug-discovery) ### Skild AI, Generalist AI, and Robotics Innovators Advance Physical AI With NVIDIA The release highlights portfolio companies including Skild AI, Generalist AI, Agility Robotics, 1X, Bedrock Robotics, Flexion, and Vention building with NVIDIA Cosmos, Isaac, and Omniverse™ technologies to accelerate robotics development and real-world deployment. [Read Physical AI Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-global-robotics-leaders-take-physical-ai-to-the-real-world) --- ## Get Started ### Ready to Build What Comes Next? Whether you’re a founder seeking a strategic partner, a coinvestor, or an analyst—we’d like to hear from you. [Explore NVIDIA Inception](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups.md) ### NVIDIA Inception for Startups Calling all startups! 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It works by combining NVIDIA’s expertise and resources to build long-term partnerships with generational teams, helping them accelerate their growth and development. ### What types of companies and industries does NVentures typically invest in? NVentures focuses on a curated portfolio of companies that are advancing critical areas of technology, including AI infrastructure, robotics, digital biology, applied AI, frontier compute, and other breakthrough fields. ### How does NVentures collaborate with portfolio companies beyond financial investment? NVentures offers a unique mix of expertise and resources, providing portfolio companies access to NVIDIA’s technical teams, platform integrations, and go-to-market support. This partnership helps companies embed NVIDIA technologies like Nemotron and BioNeMo into their products and leverage NVIDIA’s ecosystem ### Is there a dedicated program for press and media inquiries regarding NVentures? 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