The NVIDIA Mafia — Dealroom

411 VC-backed startups founded by NVIDIA alumni. $985B combined value, 26 unicorns. The chart shows 30 of them.

Companies

  1. OpenAI

    Founder: Wojciech Zaremba · Valuation: $852B · Founded 2015 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

  2. Applied Intuition

    Founder: Peter Ludwig · Valuation: $15B · Founded 2017 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States

  3. General Intuition

    Founder: Eloi Alonso · Valuation: $6.2B · Founded 2025 · Sector: gaming · HQ: Geneva, Switzerland

  4. Tenstorrent

    Founder: Ljubisa Bajic · Valuation: $6.2B · Founded 2016 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Toronto, Canada

  5. Ayar Labs

    Founder: Chen Sun · Valuation: $5B · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Santa Clara, United States

  6. SiFive

    Founder: Yunsup Lee · Valuation: $3.6B · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: San Mateo, United States

  7. Celestial AI

    Founder: Michelle Tomasko · Valuation: $3.5B · Founded 2020 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States

  8. Black Forest Labs

    Founder: Axel Sauer · Valuation: $3.3B · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: Freiburg, Germany

  9. Butterfly Network

    Founder: Nevada Sanchez · Valuation: $2B · Founded 2011 · Sector: health · HQ: Guilford, United States

  10. Xreal

    Founder: Chi Xu · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2017 · Sector: consumer · HQ: Beijing, China

  11. Genesis AI

    Founder: Yi Ling Qiao · Valuation: $630M · Founded 2024 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Paris, France

  12. Jerry Insurance

    Founder: Musawir Shah · Valuation: $528M · Founded 2017 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

  13. Flexion Robotics

    Founder: David Hoeller · Valuation: $300M · Founded 2025 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Zurich, Switzerland

  14. TrueNorth

    Founder: Alex Lee · Valuation: $300M · Founded 2025 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Taipei, Taiwan

  15. Nomagic

    Founder: Marek Cygan · Valuation: $176M · Founded 2017 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Warsaw, Poland

  16. Five AI

    Founder: Jonathan Lucas · Valuation: $132M · Founded 2015 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom

  17. Voltron Data

    Founder: Joshua Patterson · Valuation: $132M · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: Mountain View, United States

  18. Vsim

    Founder: Kier Storey · Valuation: $100M · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: Altrincham, United Kingdom

  19. LightUp

    Founder: Tarun Pondicherry · Valuation: $54M · Founded 2013 · Sector: AI · HQ: Stanford, United States

  20. Blaize

    Founder: Satyaki Koneru · Valuation: $50M · Founded 2010 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: El Dorado Hills, United States

  21. Exabel

    Founder: Øyvind Grotmol · Valuation: $36M · Founded 2016 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Oslo, Norway

  22. Cygni Energy Private Limited

    Founder: Venkat Rajaraman · Valuation: $32M · Founded 2015 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Hyderabad, India

  23. FitBudd

    Founder: Pranav Chaturvedi · Valuation: $20M · Founded 2020 · Sector: health · HQ: Lewes, United States

  24. Omnevue

    Founder: Andrew Winnicki · Valuation: $19M · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: Eastbourne, United Kingdom

  25. Myko AI

    Founder: Zheng Li · Valuation: $16M · Founded 2020 · Sector: AI · HQ: Miami, United States

  26. PredictionIO

    Founder: Donald Szeto · Valuation: $15M · Founded 2013 · Sector: AI · HQ: Stanford, United States

  27. AlgoBulls

    Founder: Pushpak Jainn Dagade · Valuation: $12M · Founded 2019 · Sector: fintech · HQ: Mumbai, India

  28. MetaNovas Biotech

    Founder: Meijie Wang · Founded 2021 · Sector: health · HQ: Pudong, China

  29. KiWi New Energy

    Founder: Steve Huang · Founded 2017 · Sector: infrastructure · HQ: Taipei, Taiwan

  30. Gryphon Online Safety

    Founder: Arup Bhattacharya · Founded 2014 · Sector: security · HQ: Oceanside, United States

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