NVIDIA

Quick read

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

• 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
• Jan 2026leadership
  NVIDIA partnered with AI hardware startup Groq and hired key Groq engineers including founder Ross and engineer Douglas Wightman. timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• May 2025press
  NVIDIA reported Q1 FY2026 record revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year-over-year, with data center revenue of $39.1 billion up 73% year-over-year. 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

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