The chipmaker and its NVentures arm have participated in more than 120 startup funding deals so far this year, according to Crunchbase data, already topping last year's record-setting pace and marking its most prolific year yet as a private-company investor. With co-founder Jensen Huang's sudden departure this week amid reports of multiple extramarital affairs including with employees and a woman U.S. intelligence experts suspect of spying for China, we took a fresh look at where Nvidia and NVentures have been investing and what the future could hold. Nvidia is the most active corporate investor so far in 2026, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. It and NVentures together are also among the top 20 most active investors in startups this year overall. Nvidia's startup investments this year total 121 and span AI model developers, data center operators, robotics startups and healthcare companies. That continues the broad approach we examined last year, when the company and its venture...
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