NVIDIA invests in 5 UK startups and commits $250M compute for agentic safety research
dr_alphalyrae · x · 2026-10-20
Alongside GTC Berlin (Oct 20-22), NVIDIA announced a new round of planned investments in the UK startup ecosystem and a five-year, $250M compute commitment for UK agentic safety and security research. New investments:
- Boltz (London): founded by MIT researchers; biomolecular models and AI agents for predicting molecular structures and designing new medicines
- Foresight (London): predicts completion dates and risks for major infrastructure, including hyperscale data centers
- Hiverge (Cambridge): founded by Google DeepMind/Cambridge researchers; an AI discovery engine that auto-writes and optimizes algorithms for faster AI training and logistics planning
- Prima Mente (London): biological foundation models targeting Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS
- Riverlane (Cambridge): quantum computing
NVIDIA previously backed Basecamp Research, Synthesia, Wayve and others in the UK.
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