Nvidia's new strategy: investments in start-ups instead of pure technological competition
Jensen Huang makes Nvidia the world's most valuable company and is now relying on start-up investments instead of pure competition.
Quick Look
- Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is relying on a new strategy: Instead of just outdoing the competition technologically, the company is investing heavily in start-ups and rivals.
- There were over 50 rounds of financing in eight months.
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Why It Matters
Nvidia has become the most valuable company under Jensen Huang.
Every year a new, more powerful generation of graphics processors: Jensen Huang has made Nvidia the world's most valuable company. The engineer from Silicon Valley is now pursuing a different strategy. Nvidia's latest innovation is not to outdo the competition technologically, but rather to make them sharers in its own success.
That alone is worrying. Because the world's largest chip company is undermining competition. But it gets even worse. Nvidia is now not only at the table with today's rivals, but increasingly also with those of tomorrow.
In the first eight months of the year, the company participated in 53 financing rounds with a volume of more than $100 million. That's what the experts at Dealroom have calculated. The chip company has thus left behind the world's best-known venture capitalists such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, all of which concluded fewer transactions.
Open Questions
- How do antitrust authorities react to the investments?
- Who are the specific target companies of the financing rounds?
