In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), Nvidia (NVDA +1.70%) has come to be the defining stock of the era.
The chipmaker, best known for its AI components based on graphics processing units (GPUs), has seen skyrocketing demand for its products since the launch of ChatGPT. Demand has soared because its chips are well suited to meeting the intense computing demands necessary to run generative AI models.
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Much of Nvidia's growth has come organically. However, acquisitions have also played a role in its expanding semiconductor empire. No single acquisition has defined the company's growth -- that could have been Arm Holdings (ARM +3.63%), but regulators blocked the $40 billion deal. However, it has absorbed a number of smaller companies throughout its history.
More recently, it made headlines for taking minority stakes in several promising AI companies. Below, we'll take a look at how Nvidia stock has grown through acquisitions and how those deals fit into its current business.
What companies does Nvidia own?
Nvidia's subsidiaries aren't exactly household names, but they have played a significant role in its evolution, running the gamut from AI companies to chip designers. Keep reading to see which companies are on the list.
1. Run:ai, 2024
At the end of 2024, Nvidia closed on its $700 million acquisition of Run:ai. The company operates a platform on Kubernetes, which serves as the orchestration layer for modern AI and cloud infrastructure.
Run:ai has worked closely with Nvidia since 2020 and serves many of the world's biggest customers. The company will allow Nvidia's customers to access GPU solutions anywhere through a single fabric, improving utilization, infrastructure management, and flexibility.
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The deal took several months to pass regulatory muster, a sign that at a valuation of more than $3 trillion, Nvidia will have difficulty making acquisitions.
2. VinBrain, 2024
In December 2024, Nvidia acquired VinBrain, a start-up that makes medical products that use AI. As part of the acquisition, Nvidia agreed to open two AI research and data centers in Vietnam, where VinBrain is based. The details of the acquisition were undisclosed. VinBrain was a division of Vingroup, which invested almost $5 million in the start-up in December 2023, so the buyout price was likely small.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
3. OctoAI, 2024
Another AI-focused acquisition Nvidia made in 2024 was OctoAI, a specialist in generative AI tools. Nvidia paid $250 million for OctoAI, formerly known as OctoML.
OctoAI is known for a technology that helps make AI hardware more accessible to developers with a hardware-agnostic software layer. It also supports popular large language models like Stable Diffusion and Meta's (META -0.10%) Llama.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
4. Brev.dev, 2024
In July 2024, Nvidia acquired Brev.dev, which helps AI developers find the lowest-priced GPU computers available from different cloud providers. The move seems designed to complement its fully managed AI platform, DGX Cloud service. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
5. Shoreline, 2024
Nvidia acquired Shoreline, an incident automation start-up, for a reported $100 million. Shoreline helps improve the reliability and efficiency of cloud-based services, providing a platform for companies to integrate observability tools and execute runbooks that allow customers to automate the identification of bugs and accelerate fixes.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
6. Deci, 2024
After Run:ai, Nvidia's biggest acquisition of 2024, appeared to be Deci, an Israeli AI start-up that Nvidia acquired for a reported $300 million. Deci's focus is on automating deep-learning model design to improve performance. Nvidia has also established a research and development (R&D) center in Israel after making several acquisitions in the country.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
7. OmniML, 2023
Nvidia's biggest acquisition of 2023 was AI start-up OmniML. This included technology that helps miniaturize machine learning applications, such as large language models, so they can run on devices like computers, smartphones, and other end-user devices, known as edge devices. Nvidia didn't publicly announce the acquisition, a sign that it may not have wanted it to attract attention.
OmniML had just announced a partnership with Intel (INTC -0.12%) the month before Nvidia made its acquisition. It's unclear whether the deal will unwind the Intel partnership, but it seems likely, considering Intel and Nvidia are close competitors in AI.
Nvidia dominates the data center market in AI, but the edge market is a dogfight at the moment, with several chipmakers fighting for market share. The OmniML acquisition could give Nvidia an advantage. It's unclear how much Nvidia paid for OmniML.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
8. Excelero Storage, 2022
In March 2022, Nvidia acquired Excelero, an Israeli company founded in 2014 that specializes in providing high-performance storage solutions. It's known for its flagship product, NVMesh, which helps provide scalable and low-latency storage solutions.
Excelero has strengthened Nvidia's capabilities in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) and has been an Nvidia partner since its early days. Given this relationship, the acquisition made sense for Nvidia.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
9. Bright Computing, 2022
Bright Computing is yet another leader in HPC systems to fall under Nvidia's umbrella. Nvidia sees it playing an important role in areas like accelerated computing, GPUs, networking, its CUDA parallel computing platform, which simplifies the use of GPUs for general-purpose computing, and its DGX systems, which are Nvidia's line of servers to accelerate deep-learning applications.
Acquisitions like Bright Computing show that Nvidia's suite of AI-focused products is the result of a smart mergers and acquisitions strategy and its own product development.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
10. Swiftstack, 2020
In 2020, Nvidia made another acquisition to help build its supercomputer strategy: SwiftStack. This software-defined storage platform helps organizations store large volumes of unstructured data.
Like some of Nvidia's other acquisition targets, SwiftStack was expected to help with AI, HPC, and accelerated computing. It was unclear how much Nvidia paid for SwiftStack, although it had raised $23.6 million in its first two funding rounds and serves customers like PayPal (PYPL +1.15%), Verizon (VZ +1.00%), and Nvidia.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
11. Mellanox Technologies, 2019
The biggest acquisition in Nvidia's history was its $6.9 billion purchase of Mellanox, a company known for its high-performance networking technology. At the time of the 2019 acquisition, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that Mellanox would fill out the company's end-to-end technologies, from AI computing to networking.
Nvidia also said it would unite the leaders in processing and interconnecting in HPC, which played a key role in Nvidia's development of its AI technology and its emphasis on accelerated computing, which has paid off for the company and investors.
As of 2025, there has been no new publicly available news, and information has not been released.
12. SoundHound AI, 2023
Nvidia revealed several investments in AI stocks in its 13-F filing in February 2024. One of the more intriguing was SoundHound AI (SOUN +2.91%), a maker of audio AI technology that can perform tasks that include speech recognition, text-to-speech, and song identification.
Nvidia made a small investment in SoundHound in the fourth quarter, buying $1.73 million worth of stock. However, the value of its investment has gone up considerably since then.
Since SoundHound is more of an application-based, consumer-facing AI company, it seems unlikely the two companies would work directly together. But Nvidia could expand into new markets where SoundHound's technology could apply.
As of 2025, Nvidia has exited its position in SoundHound AI.
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The bottom line on companies Nvidia owns
Nvidia owns a wide array of subsidiaries dating back to the company's early history. Those have played a key role in making the company one of the most valuable in the world.
These days, Nvidia is squarely focused on artificial intelligence. Almost all its recent acquisitions have been key to burnishing its AI credentials, whether by improving AI technology or entering new markets. Given the company's market-leading position in AI hardware, we will likely see more acquisitions from Nvidia in the coming years.
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