Funding Round: Venture Round (NVIDIA)
The source confirms that NVIDIA received venture capital funding in the early period (1993-1997 timeframe is consistent with the founding in April 1993), but states the amount as '$20 million', not '$18 million' as claimed in the record. The date range 1993-1997 is reasonable for early venture funding, but the raised amount is contradicted by the source's explicit statement of $20 million. This is a direct factual discrepancy in the key field 'raised'.
Our claim
entire record- Company
- NVIDIA
- Company
- NVIDIA
- Name
- Venture Round
- Date
- 1993-1997
- Raised
- 18000000
- Raised Low
- 18000000
- Raised High
- 18000000
- Instrument
- equity
- Lead Investor
- Sequoia Capital
- Notes
- Follow-on venture funding from Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures totaling $18M additional (on top of the initial $2M seed), bringing total VC raised to ~$20M. Also includes a $5M strategic investment from Sega in 1996 to fund development of the RIVA 128 GPU.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkNoteThe source confirms that NVIDIA received venture capital funding in the early period (1993-1997 timeframe is consistent with the founding in April 1993), but states the amount as '$20 million', not '$18 million' as claimed in the record. The date range 1993-1997 is reasonable for early venture funding, but the raised amount is contradicted by the source's explicit statement of $20 million. This is a direct factual discrepancy in the key field 'raised'.