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Goode: NVIDIA Invested in CoreWeave, Which Used the Capital to Buy Chips

Lauren Goode · Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode · Jul 10, 2026 · at 18:23

Lauren Goode (Wired) highlights NVIDIA's circular financing and customer relationships during a panel on the company's growth drivers.

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“They have become a major investor in CoreWeave, and then CoreWeave is using that money to buy NVIDIA chips.”

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The claim, plainly

NVIDIA became a major investor in CoreWeave, which in turn used the invested funds to purchase NVIDIA chips.

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Assessment

The claim consists of two core assertions: 1) NVIDIA became a major investor in CoreWeave, and 2) CoreWeave deployed capital from these investments to purchase NVIDIA hardware/chips. Both legs are well-documented and verified by public filings and joint corporate announcements. NVIDIA participated in CoreWeave's April 2023 Series B funding round, served as a $250 million anchor investor in CoreWeave's March 2025 IPO, and executed a $2 billion direct equity investment in January 2026. In conjunction with these equity infusions and partnership agreements, CoreWeave directly committed to multi-billion-dollar buildouts deploying successive generations of NVIDIA hardware platforms (including H100 GPUs, Vera CPUs, and Rubin architecture GPUs).

On April 20, 2023, NVIDIA participated directly in CoreWeave's $221 million Series B round, followed by a $250 million anchor investment in CoreWeave's March 2025 IPO.
On January 26, 2026, NVIDIA completed a $2 billion direct equity investment in CoreWeave alongside an expanded partnership committing CoreWeave to deploying NVIDIA hardware across 5+ gigawatts of infrastructure.
CoreWeave's capital deployment and debt/equity facilities across 2023–2026 were explicitly tied to acquiring fleets of NVIDIA H100, Vera, and Rubin architecture GPUs and CPUs.

Checked against

[1] oneragtime.com [2] businesswire.com [3] 36kr.com [4] coreweave.com [5] roic.ai [6] coreweave.com [7] nvidia.com [8] coreweave.com

CoreWeave Nvidia chips purchase financing collateral debt equity Nvidia CoreWeave investment funding round announcement "Nvidia" CoreWeave "Series B" 2023 investment OR invested "CoreWeave" "Nvidia" "Form S-1" OR IPO prospectus "investor" Nvidia invest in CoreWeave buy Nvidia GPUs round-tripping circular

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