A worker stands above a metro construction site near US chipmaker Nvidia’s office in Bengaluru, India on January 7, 2026.
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American artificial intelligence chip, my dear Nvidia The India company is expanding its partnerships in India, including with venture capital firms, as it bets on the country’s AI ecosystem that has attracted huge investments in the technology.
The company said in a statement on Wednesday that it is working with several venture capital firms, including Peak XV, Z47, Elevation Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Accel India to identify and fund AI startups.
This comes at a time when venture capital investors are showing increasing interest in technology startups in India, with the country’s strong initial public offering market offering lucrative returns.
India is currently holding an AI summit that saw top technology executives as well as heads of state participating in the event. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was also expected to attend, but withdrew due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
More than 4,000 AI startups in India have already joined Nvidia’s global startup programme, which helps technology startups build, scale and go to market, according to the chip designer.
The world’s largest company by market value also said it is cooperating with government agencies and research institutions, as well as ongoing efforts to build local data centers in the country.
Nvidia’s efforts center around the “IndiaAI Mission” in New Delhi, which aims to boost the country’s AI capabilities and free up funding for AI entrepreneurs.
More broadly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has set goals for India to grow into a global technology superpower. As of September last year, New Delhi had approved semiconductor projects worth $18 billion as it looks to build a domestic supply chain.
Nvidia has also partnered with Indian cloud providers such as Yotta, Larsen & Toubro and E2E Networks to provide its AI chipsets and help build data centers in the country.
An official in New Delhi reportedly said on Tuesday that the country expects investments of up to $200 billion in data centers over the next few years.
Indian company Adani has announced plans to invest $100 billion in AI-ready data centers powered by renewable energy. US technology companies, including high-tech companies Amazon, Microsoft and Google, have committed more than $50 billion to the country’s AI and chip infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Nvidia said it is also supporting Indian AI companies through ‘NVIDIA Nemotron Models’ – a family of Nvidia AI models that organizations can use to build new chatbots, agents and speech systems.
Indian companies can use these Nvidia models to train new AI systems on India-specific data and language, in line with the country’s goal of building sovereign AI.
Sovereign AI refers to a country’s ability to build AI based on its infrastructure, data, and industry, so that increasingly important AI systems are not dependent on foreign service providers.
