In an announcement made on Wednesday this week by Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang at a glitzy event in London, Nvidia revealed new planned UK investments in five startups: Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente and Riverlane (see analysis below).
The announcement builds on Nvidia’s £2bn commitment to the UK AI startup ecosystem announced in September 2025, made in collaboration with Accel, Air Street Capital, Balderton Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Phoenix Court, and comes during Jensen’s current European tour. Previously, he also swung by Paris and announced investments in four French startups: French healthtech Doctolib, AI startup Entalpic, robotics startup Genesis AI and enterprise software company Pigment.
And Berlin is next on the tour.
Jensen (nobody calls him Huang, let’s face it - did we call Britney “Spears”?) also made a compute donation valued at $250m over five years for UK agentic safety and security research, supporting SOFAIR at UCL, BOLD at Oxford and Imperial College London.
Separately, Nvidia is joining Prince William’s Earthshot Prize as a Global Alliance Founding Partner, contributing compute and technical expertise to climate and sustainability innovators. He really is after the UK elite, huh.
Nvidia’s existing UK portfolio includes Basecamp Research, Ineffable Intelligence, Synthesia and Wayve, and the company took part in 14 European funding rounds in 2025, double its 2024 tally. Let’s see where the end of this year lands.
Riverlane already had a working relationship with Nvidia. The company has demonstrated how GPUs can accelerate decoder recalibration workflows used in quantum error correction, as part of a broader collaboration on how AI, accelerated computing and error correction can work together.
It previously raised $75m in a Series C in August 2024, bringing its total to $125m at a valuation of more than $400m, and making it potentially the first European quantum computing company to close a Series C. That round was led by Planet First Partners, with participation from ETF Partners and Singapore’s EDBI, alongside existing backers Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund, and Altair.
Foresight sells software for building data centres faster, and (guess what?!) Nvidia’s business depends on data centres being built faster. How handy!
The London-headquartered predictive project delivery platform raised $25m in a Series A in March 2026, and operates globally from London, New York and Tel Aviv (where it has a significant R&D and engineering footprint). Macquarie Capital Venture Capital led, with seed investor Creandum, ISAI Build, i2bf Global Ventures and Somersault Ventures participating. Its customers include Google and Compass Datacenters, and it claims one in five data centre owners use the platform across more than $100bn of projects. PitchBook puts its lifetime total at $41m across several small early seed rounds from 2021 onward; the publicly announced rounds total around $30.5m.
Nvidia called Boltz “a London-based AI startup founded by MIT researchers”. But every funding database and the company’s own launch coverage places it in Boston, Massachusetts as an MIT CSAIL / Jameel Clinic spinout.
The MIT Jameel Clinic spinout raised a $28m seed co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners and Zetta Venture Partners, with backing from Factorial Capital, Obvious Ventures and angels including Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue. The round was announced in January 2026 alongside the launch of Boltz Lab and a strategic collaboration with Pfizer. The founders Gabriele Corso, Jeremy Wohlwend and Saro Passaro built the open-source Boltz-1, Boltz-2 and BoltzGen models.
This Cambridge UK startup emerged with $5m in seed funding led by Seattle-based Flying Fish Ventures, with Ahren Innovation Capital and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean among the backers. Alpha Intelligence Capital also participated. Its founders, CEO Alhussein Fawzi, CTO Bernardino Romera-Paredes and CSO Hamza Fawzi, a professor at Cambridge’s DAMTP, led the Google DeepMind teams behind AlphaTensor and FunSearch.
This builds biological foundation models; a compute-hungry category so definitely inside Nvidia’s wheelhouse. Founded in 2023 by Hannah Madan, Ravi Solanki and Jonathan Wan, the London AI biology company has raised $1.4m from Beyond Capital, Bluebirds Capital, Episode 1 Ventures, Antler and Octopus Ventures. It is also one of the seven companies named in the first cohort of the UK’s £500m Sovereign AI Fund.
