Nvidia on November 9, 2026 announced new investments in South Korean AI startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum. It co-hosted the event with Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT at COEX in Seoul, where more than 20 Korean startups met with the company. Nvidia did not disclose any dollar amounts.
Nvidia said it has invested in Point2, which builds radio-frequency-based interconnects for AI systems. It said it plans further investments in three more companies. Motif Technologies is a Seoul AI lab that has released its Motif-3 large language model with open weights. RLWRLD builds robotics foundation models and has teams in San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo. Upstage develops the Solar family of LLMs and document AI products.
Nvidia says more than 1,000 Korea-based startups are members of its Inception program for AI startups. The forum was one of several Korea-focused announcements Nvidia made that week, including collaborations on sovereign AI, physical AI and AI infrastructure with Korean companies.
The investments add to Nvidia's growing network of stakes in companies across the AI stack. For Korea's AI sector, they mean backing from the largest AI chip supplier for companies working on models, robotics and data-center networking.