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Nvidia is latest investor to back AV startup Nuro in $203M funding round Kirsten Korosec AM PDT · August 21, 2025 Nvidia is among a group of new investors to back Nuro — which develops self-driving software for delivery and ride-hailing services — in a funding round that has reached $203 million.

The Silicon Valley startup announced Thursday that several investors, including existing backer Baillie Gifford, added another $97 million to its Series E round. New investors include Icehouse Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Nvidia, and Pledge Ventures. Uber, which last month said it would make a “multi-hundred-million dollar” investment in Nuro as part of a broader deal with the electric car maker Lucid, also participated.

Nvidia’s investment follows years of technical collaboration with Nuro. The startup uses Nvidia GPUs for its large-scale data processing and model training, and its latest compute model is built on the Nvidia Drive AGX Thor platform.

The first $106 million tranche of Series E funding was announced in April. Investment accounts advised

Nuro has raised $2.3 billion to date. Its Series E post-money valuation is $6 billion. That’s a 30% drop from its $8.6 billion valuation in 2021 when Nuro raised $600 million in a Series D round.

Much has changed in the past four years for Nuro and the broader autonomous vehicles industry. Like most startups in the nascent autonomous vehicle technology sector, Nuro was forced to examine its business model after economic conditions shut off the once-free flowing tap of capital and ushered in a period of consolidation.

Nuro went through several rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023 before overhauling its business strategy. In 2024, Nuro scrapped plans to own and operate a fleet of low-speed, on-road delivery bots, and instead focused its efforts on licensing its technology to automakers and mobility providers, like ride-hail and delivery companies.

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Uber also said it would invest an undisclosed “multi-hundred-million dollar” amount into Nuro. One

A portion of Uber’s investment has gone toward the Series E round. The remaining investment will be parceled out to Nuro as the company hits certain milestones.

Nuro co-founder and president Dave Ferguson said in a statement that the company is well-positioned to continue its next phase of growth with the new capital. He added that the company, which employs about 700 people, will focus on delivering new commercial partnerships to realize autonomy at global scale.

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