Alumni who left NVIDIA and founded venture-backed startups. 48 startups spanning infrastructure, AI, health. 14 unicorns, 14 countries, $941B+ combined enterprise value. Notable names include OpenAI, Moore Threads, Applied Intuition.
Founder: Wojciech Zaremba · Valuation: $852B · Founded 2015 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States
Founder: Dario Amodei · Valuation: $380B · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States
Founder: Jams Zhang · Valuation: $37.8B · Founded 2020 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Beijing, China
Founder: Ilya Sutskever · Valuation: $32B · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: Palo Alto, United States
Founder: Aravind Srinivas · Valuation: $18B · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States
Founder: Peter Ludwig · Valuation: $15B · Founded 2017 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States
Founder: Mira Murati · Valuation: $12B · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States
Founder: Ljubisa Bajic · Valuation: $4B · Founded 2016 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Toronto, Canada
Founder: Chen Sun · Valuation: $3.8B · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Santa Clara, United States
Founder: Yunsup Lee · Valuation: $3.6B · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: San Mateo, United States
Founder: Saad Godil · Valuation: $3.5B · Founded 2022 · Sector: health · HQ: Palo Alto, United States
Founder: Phil Keslin · Valuation: $3.5B · Founded 2011 · Sector: gaming · HQ: San Francisco, United States
Founder: Axel Sauer · Valuation: $3.3B · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: Freiburg, Germany
Founder: Michelle Tomasko · Valuation: $3.3B · Founded 2020 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States
Founder: Eloi Alonso · Valuation: $2.3B · Founded 2025 · Sector: gaming · HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
Founder: Nevada Sanchez · Valuation: $1.8B · Founded 2011 · Sector: health · HQ: Guilford, United States
Founder: Barrett Woodside · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2023 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Reno, United States
Founder: Chi Xu · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2017 · Sector: consumer · HQ: Beijing, China
Founder: Saptadeep Pal · Valuation: $918M · Founded 2022 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Santa Clara, United States
Founder: Radoslav Danilak · Valuation: $880M · Founded 2016 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Las Vegas, United States
Founder: Omri Geller · Valuation: $700M · Founded 2018 · Sector: AI · HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Founder: Misha Laskin · Valuation: $580M · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: New York, United States
Founder: Yi Ling Qiao · Valuation: $420M · Founded 2024 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Paris, France
Founder: Ambuj Kumar · Valuation: $360M · Founded 2016 · Sector: security · HQ: Mountain View, United States
Founder: Musawir Shah · Valuation: $352M · Founded 2017 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Palo Alto, United States
Founder: David Hoeller · Valuation: $200M · Founded 2025 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Founder: Marek Cygan · Valuation: $176M · Founded 2017 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Warsaw, Poland
Founder: Stan Boland · Valuation: $164M · Founded 2015 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founder: Yang Zhang · Valuation: $110M · Founded 2017 · Sector: AI · HQ: Nanjing City, China
Founder: Ali Ayoub · Valuation: $100M · Founded 2020 · Sector: consumer · HQ: Chicago, United States
Founder: Kier Storey · Valuation: $100M · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: Altrincham, United Kingdom
Founder: Joshua Patterson · Valuation: $88M · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: Mountain View, United States
Founder: Satyaki Koneru · Valuation: $81M · Founded 2010 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: El Dorado Hills, United States
Founder: Khalid Parekh · Valuation: $80M · Founded 2020 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Houston, United States
Founder: Kate Kallot · Valuation: $46M · Founded 2021 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Lagos, Nigeria
Founder: Venkat Rajaraman · Valuation: $32M · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Hyderabad, India
Founder: Venkat Moganty · Valuation: $24M · Founded 2015 · Sector: consumer · HQ: Hyderabad, India
Founder: Øyvind Grotmol · Valuation: $24M · Founded 2016 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Oslo, Norway
Founder: J A Chowdary · Valuation: $16M · Founded 2008 · Sector: consumer · HQ: Hyderabad, India
Founder: Pranav Chaturvedi · Valuation: $14M · Founded 2020 · Sector: health · HQ: Lewes, United States
Founder: Andrew Winnicki · Valuation: $12M · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Founder: Zheng Li · Valuation: $11M · Founded 2020 · Sector: AI · HQ: Miami, United States
Founder: Donald Szeto · Valuation: $10M · Founded 2013 · Sector: AI · HQ: Stanford, United States
Founder: Jacek Migdał · Valuation: $9M · Founded 2023 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Warsaw, Poland
Founder: Konstantin Kiselev · Valuation: $9M · Founded 2018 · Sector: health · HQ: Tallinn, Estonia
Founder: Pushpak Dagade · Valuation: $8M · Founded 2019 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Mumbai, India
Founder: Alex Lee · Valuation: $4M · Founded 2025 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Taipei, Taiwan
Founder: Joshua Titus · Valuation: $4M · Founded 2013 · Sector: health · HQ: Atlanta, United States
Founder: Paul Puey · Valuation: $2M · Founded 2014 · Sector: fintech · HQ: San Diego, United States
Founder: Meijie Wang · Founded 2021 · Sector: health · HQ: Pudong, China
Founder: Tarun Pondicherry · Founded 2013 · Sector: AI · HQ: Stanford, United States
Founder: Steve Huang · Founded 2017 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Taipei, Taiwan
Founder: Arup Bhattacharya · Founded 2014 · Sector: security · HQ: Oceanside, United States