Partnership · AI & Deep Tech

Activate partners with NVIDIA to support AI startups

By Startup Enthusiast · 20 February 2026

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Activate partnered with NVIDIA to provide technical assistance, mentorship, and access to Nemotron open-source models for AI startups

NVIDIA will help Activate identify potential founders across India and organize developer enablement initiatives

Activate has a corpus of about $75 million and invests $500K to $3 million per startup

Activate announced a partnership with NVIDIA at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.
Under the partnership, Activate-funded startups will receive mentorship from NVIDIA.
Startups will also get access to Nemotron, a family of open-source AI models.
NVIDIA will help Activate identify potential founders and teams across India.
The collaboration includes developer enablement initiatives and community-building efforts.
Activate is an early-stage AI-focused venture capital fund with a corpus of about $75 million.
It invests in startups at the inception or ideation stage, with ticket sizes of $500K to $3 million.

NVIDIA is a founding member of the India Deeptech Alliance.
At the same summit, NVIDIA announced a joint venture with L&T for gigawatt-scale AI data centres in India.

Activate is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on AI startups.
It backs startups at the inception or ideation stage.
The fund's ticket size ranges from $500K to $3 million.
Its total corpus is estimated at $75 million.
Limited partners include Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas, upGrad's Ronnie Screwvala, Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla, Fractal's Srikanth Velamakanni, and Peak XV Partners' Shailendra Singh.