Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | 204M | 2,087,211 | 1 May 2026 |
| OpenAI | 139M | 5,492,151 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Grok Bot | 46M | 489,890 | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Sakana AI | 26.5M | 141,099 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| ElevenLabs | 15.2M | 209,154 | 4 Feb 2026 |
| Reactor | 12.7M | 9,843 | 28 May 2026 |
| Runway | 11M | 63,414 | 11 Sep 2026 |
| World Labs | 10.9M | 115,959 | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 8.4M | 184,613 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 6.8M | 38,407 | 21 May 2026 |
| Nous Research | 5.9M | 291,453 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Imbue | 5.5M | 10,497 | 10 Apr 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Against following |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reactor | 12.7M | 9,843 | 1,294x |
| CodeRabbit | 4.8M | 3,700 | 1,291x |
| Synthesia | 3.3M | 7,165 | 456x |
| River AI | 787K | 9,387 | 84x |
| Astrocade | 739K | 4,158 | 178x |
| Gradium | 447K | 5,824 | 77x |
| Bedrock Robotics | 344K | 5,195 | 66x |
Launch, then a raise
Launches followed by a funding round within 90 days.
| Company | Launch | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Nous Research | 2.6M17 Aug 2026 | Funding announced on X51 days later |
| Odyssey | 2.2M21 Apr 2026 | Funding announced on X57 days later |
| ElevenLabs | 558K9 Jan 2026 | Funding announced on X26 days later |
| Legora | 151K22 Sep 2026 | Funding announced on X29 days later |
| Cohere | 98K5 Oct 2026 | Funding announced on X24 days later |
Who NVIDIA invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| Salesforce Ventures | 18 of 56 |
| Sequoia | 17 of 56 |
| a16z | 17 of 56 |
| SV Angel | 14 of 56 |
| Lightspeed | 9 of 56 |
| Radical Ventures | 9 of 56 |
| Quiet Capital | 9 of 56 |
| Y Combinator | 8 of 56 |
| Menlo Ventures | 8 of 56 |
| Coatue | 7 of 56 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier labs | 111 | 2M |
| Developer tools | 77 | 1.3M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 34 | 785K |
| Creative AI | 21 | 765K |
| Robotics and hardware | 18 | 598K |
| Healthtech and regulated AI | 5 | 1.7M |
| Chips and AI infrastructure | 4 | 653K |
| Legal tech | 3 | 151K |
NVIDIA portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | 29 | 670.3M | 204M1 May 2026 |
| OpenAI | 68 | 437.1M | 139M3 Sep 2026 |
| Grok Bot | 10 | 194.2M | 46M2 Sep 2026 |
| ElevenLabs | 13 | 40.6M | 15.2M4 Feb 2026 |
| Sakana AI | 1 | 26.5M | 26.5M22 Jun 2026 |
| Nous Research | 20 | 23.1M | 5.9M2 Jun 2026 |
| Runway | 14 | 16.1M | 11M11 Sep 2026 |
| Reactor | 4 | 16M | 12.7M28 May 2026 |
| World Labs | 2 | 11.2M | 10.9M1 Sep 2026 |
| Synthesia | 6 | 9.9M | 5.1M1 Oct 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 3 | 9.5M | 6.8M21 May 2026 |
| Odyssey | 6 | 8.6M | 2.3M15 Sep 2026 |
| Imbue | 2 | 8.4M | 5.5M10 Apr 2026 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 1 | 8.4M | 8.4M15 Jul 2026 |
| Prime Intellect | 3 | 7.8M | 3.2M5 Aug 2026 |
| CodeRabbit | 2 | 5.9M | 4.8M22 Apr 2026 |
| Figure | 4 | 5.7M | 3.4M17 Sep 2026 |
| Skild AI | 2 | 5.2M | 3.6M25 Aug 2026 |
| Decart | 2 | 4.9M | 4.8M16 Jul 2026 |
| You.com | 1 | 4.4M | 4.4M22 Oct 2026 |
| Dyna Robotics | 2 | 3.5M | 3.1M29 Sep 2026 |
| Generalist | 1 | 3.4M | 3.4M19 Aug 2026 |
| Exa | 4 | 2.8M | 1.1M16 Jun 2026 |
| Cohere | 6 | 2.6M | 746K20 May 2026 |
| Reflection | 1 | 2.5M | 2.5M5 Oct 2026 |
| fal | 5 | 2.3M | 2M27 Aug 2026 |
| GMI Cloud | 2 | 1.8M | 1M8 Jun 2026 |
| Dyna | 1 | 1.8M | 1.8M10 Aug 2026 |
| Black Forest Labs | 2 | 1.8M | 1.2M23 Jul 2026 |
| Periodic Labs | 1 | 1.7M | 1.7M15 Sep 2026 |
| Suno | 2 | 1.4M | 1M9 Sep 2026 |
| Together AI | 1 | 1.3M | 1.3M13 Feb 2026 |
| OpenRouter | 4 | 984K | 701K19 Aug 2026 |
| Gradium | 3 | 832K | 447K8 Sep 2026 |
| River AI | 1 | 787K | 787K11 Aug 2026 |
| Astrocade | 1 | 739K | 739K5 May 2026 |
| humans | 1 | 626K | 626K10 Sep 2026 |
| ElevenCreative | 2 | 581K | 465K1 Oct 2026 |
| Starcloud | 1 | 489K | 489K21 Aug 2026 |
| Physical Intelligence | 1 | 417K | 417K13 Oct 2026 |
| Legora | 3 | 358K | 157K21 Oct 2026 |
| Bedrock Robotics | 1 | 344K | 344K26 Oct 2026 |
| Profound | 2 | 225K | 223K15 Sep 2026 |
| Sarvam | 2 | 179K | 161K13 Oct 2026 |
| Reka | 1 | 162K | 162K5 Oct 2026 |
| Inception Labs | 2 | 130K | 72K8 Sep 2026 |
| Crusoe | 1 | 122K | 122K21 Oct 2026 |
| Rhoda AI | 1 | 105K | 105K14 Oct 2026 |
| Radical AI | 1 | 85K | 85K1 Apr 2026 |
| General Robotics | 1 | 55K | 55K9 Sep 2026 |
| Baseten | 2 | 35K | 31K16 Sep 2026 |
| Allen Institute for AI | 1 | 33K | 33K2 Oct 2026 |
| ElevenLabs Developers | 1 | 9K | 9K14 Sep 2026 |
Questions
Which NVIDIA portfolio companies launch on X?
53 NVIDIA-backed companies have 254 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are xAI, OpenAI, Grok Bot.
What was the biggest launch from a NVIDIA-backed company?
xAI, with 204M views on 1 May 2026.
How do NVIDIA-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median NVIDIA-backed launch did 1.3M views, against 602K across every launch we track. 55% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 10 of the 20 firms we report on.
Where does this data come from?
Views, followers and dates are read from X. A company counts as backed when the firm invested in any round on record, matched to investment records by the company's website, plus companies whose own posts name the firm.
A known gap: about four in ten companies have no investment record yet, mostly the newest, so very young portfolio companies are under-counted.