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News / GuruFocus / Nvidia Leads Firmus Funding Round With $500 Million Investment Nvidia Leads Firmus Funding Round With $500 Million Investment Less than 1 min read NVDA +0.33% Nvidia (NVDA, Financials), the chipmaker known for AI processors used in data centers, has reportedly committed A$720 million, or about $500 million, to Australian cloud infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies. The in

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions is preparing for a domestic listing in the first half of 2027, offering a test of whether investor enthusiasm for inference chips can move from private funding rounds into public markets.

Dutch semiconductor equipment startup Nearfield Instruments has completed a US$380 million Series D funding round, the largest-ever fundraising for a Dutch deep-tech company. The company is now targeting an initial public offering (IPO) in 2028.

AI chipmaker SambaNova could raise between US$800 million and US$1 billion in a new funding round, according to its executive chairman and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. This would raise SambaNova's value to US$10 billion as increasing inferential AI workloads spur a search for alternatives to Nvidia's expensive GPUs.

Dutch semiconductor metrology specialist Nearfield Instruments has secured US$380 million in Series D funding, marking the largest fundraising round ever completed by a deep-tech company in the Netherlands.

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Samsung Electronics and SK hynix participated in an investment round for artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. Anthropic said on May 28 that it raised $65 billion in its Series H funding round. Following the investment, the company's valuation reached $965 billion. The funding round also included participation from three major memory suppliers: Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron.

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