Founding

Jensen Huang from AMD , and Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem from Sun Microsystems , saw a market to improve graphics performance with dedicated hardware . They sensed that computer games would become a huge market and set out with $ 40,000 to found Nvidia .

Funding

Having named the company after a filenaming system they had devised , the trio needed funding , which came in the shape of a $ 20 million venture capital round led by Sequoia Capital .

20 August 2021