WORLDTECHNvidia makes its first Korean bet with Point2 Technology
What happened
NVIDIA announced on November 9, 2026, an investment in Point2 and planned investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage, extending its Korean startup activity across AI data-center interconnects, open-weight (a model whose trained parameters anyone may download) (published so anyone may download the trained model) language models, robotics and enterprise document software. NVentures, the company’s venture arm, joined a Series B (an early stage of company funding) funding round for Point2 Technology. NVIDIA is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, and its products and services include software.
The round totaled $76 million and closed in April 2026. Nvidia's investment in Point2 Technology highlights a strategic shift towards enhancing AI infrastructure, potentially accelerating AI advancements globally.
The announcement accompanied the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA.
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Point2 is a Korean fabless semiconductor startup that builds interconnect technology for AI data centers. The deal is Nvidia’s first investment in a company based in Korea.
What Point2 actually builds A modern AI cluster is thousands of chips that need to talk to each other constantly. The cables and links that carry that chatter are called interconnects.