NVIDIA

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NVIDIA, a publicly traded hardware and AI computing company (NASDAQ: NVDA), was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs GPUs and full-stack AI platforms for data centers, gaming, and autonomous vehicles — its Blackwell and now Vera Rubin architectures dominate the AI infrastructure market. Q1 FY2027 revenue hit a record $81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year, driven by data center demand.

Key facts

Founded

1993

Founders

Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem

Employees

42000

Sectors

hardware, ai, enterprise

Website

nvidia.com

Mission

NVIDIA designs accelerated computing hardware and full-stack AI platforms — from GPUs to data center systems — that power AI training, inference, autonomous vehicles, and physical AI applications.

Recent activity

• Jun 2026product
  At GTC Taipei, Jensen Huang announced the Vera Rubin CPU-GPU stack has entered full mass production, with the first system already live on Microsoft Azure. NVIDIA also unveiled RTX Spark with Microsoft, a personal AI agent superchip for Windows RTX PCs, and launched the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot built on the Unitree H2 Plus platform. linkedin.com
• Jun 2026product
  At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark AI superchip designed to run autonomous agents on consumer PCs, signaling a shift from cloud-based AI workloads to on-device edge computing. linkedin.com
• 2026investment
  NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers using NVIDIA systems. NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt is deployed. The first gigawatt, on the Vera Rubin platform, is set for H2 2026. linkedin.com
• 2026investment
  NVIDIA acquired Groq's assets for $20 billion. The first product from the acquisition — the GROQ 3 LPU — ships Q3 2026, featuring 256 LPUs per rack and claiming 35x higher inference throughput per megawatt. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  At GTC 2026 in San Jose, Jensen Huang reported $1 trillion in purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips. He also announced the next-generation Feynman GPU (2028 roadmap), featuring a new Rosa CPU and vertical blade rack design. x.com
• 2026product
  NVIDIA announced it will build AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time, working with domestic manufacturing partners. Blackwell chip production has started at TSMC's Arizona facilities. x.com
• 2026investment
  NVIDIA invested $5 billion in Intel, described by analysts as less about capital and more about strategic influence, providing Intel with credibility in its competition against TSMC. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  NVIDIA will resume H20 GPU sales to China after the U.S. government assured licenses will be granted. Jensen Huang also announced a new RTX PRO GPU designed to be fully compliant with export regulations for the Chinese market. x.com
• Jul 2026leadership
  NVIDIA named Suzanne Nora Johnson to its board of directors, effective July 13, 2026. nvidianews.nvidia.com
• May 2026press
  NVIDIA reported record Q1 FY2027 revenue of $81.6 billion, up 20% quarter-over-quarter and 85% year-over-year, with data center revenue at $39.1 billion in Q1 FY2026. nvidianews.nvidia.com
• Mar 2026product
  At GTC 2026 in San Jose, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin platform, agentic AI infrastructure, open models including OpenClaw, and physical AI roadmap. linkedin.com
• Jan 2026product
  At CES 2026, Jensen Huang announced Vera Rubin architecture servers entering full production and Alpamayo AI models for autonomous vehicle reasoning. Mercedes-Benz CLA began shipping with NVIDIA's full autonomous stack. x.com

Notable investments

• xAIStrategic Investment ($2B of $20B round)2024parsers.vc
• BasetenGrowth ($300M, $5B valuation)2024parsers.vc
• RevolutStrategic Investment ($75B valuation)2024parsers.vc
• DatabricksStrategic Investment2024parsers.vc
• Hugging FaceSeries D ($235M)2023parsers.vc
• OpenAIStrategic Investment2023parsers.vc
• AbridgeStrategic Investment2023parsers.vc
• Iambic TherapeuticsStrategic Investment2023parsers.vc

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Jen-Hsun Huang · Co-Founder & CEO
  Brief →LinkedIn
• Chris Malachowsky · Co-Founder
• Curtis Priem · Co-Founder & former CTO
• John Dabiri · Board Member
• Stephen C. Neal · Board Member
• Harvey C. Jones · Board Member
• Jensen Huang · Founder & CEO
  Brief →
• Colette Kress · EVP & CFO
• Jay Puri · EVP Worldwide Field Operations
• Debora Shoquist · EVP Operations
• Tim Teter · EVP & General Counsel
• Ian Buck · VP of Hyperscale & HPC
• Bryan Catanzaro · VP Applied Deep Learning Research

Sources

• NVIDIA Newsroom
• NVIDIA News Archive
• NVIDIA LinkedIn
• Jensen Huang LinkedIn
• NVIDIA Newsroom on X
• CES 2026 Announcements Summary
• NVIDIA Partners with Groq
• NVIDIA Portfolio on Parsers.vc
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/virgie-pan-35170a3a2_this-week-in-the-nvidia-newsroom-nvidia-activity-7470150788758179841-kOtr?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmTyBUB_Y9mTHyXld6lBc7ctCQjgqVRKwA
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hubnx_the-agentic-pc-nvidia-and-the-silicon-paradigm-activity-7467622017610182656-gY7b?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmTyBUB_Y9mTHyXld6lBc7ctCQjgqVRKwA
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinboitano
• https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/nvidia-acquires-rival-groqs-assets-for-20b-8092866/
• https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2033669674622455868
• https://x.com/nvidianewsroom?lang=en
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mluban/

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