Nvidia Takes Stakes in Agile Robots, Avelios, Mirelo and Reflex Aerospace
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Nvidia says it will invest in four German startups, from robots to satellites. It’s part of a bigger Europe push — and critics say the chips may come back through the same companies.
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Jensen Huang brought Nvidia’s checkbook to Berlin. After Paris, the company said it plans to invest in four German tech firms: Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo and Reflex Aerospace. The announcement came in a blog post after Huang appeared on stage with Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a former power station in the city.
Nvidia is not saying how much money is changing hands, or how big the stakes will be. But the mix tells you a lot about where the company wants to plant its flag: physical A.I., health software, generative audio and space hardware. That’s a broad spread, and it is very much the point.
Agile Robots, based in Munich, builds A.I.-powered machines ranging from robotic arms to a humanoid called Agile ONE. Founded in 2018 by former DLR researchers Zhaopeng Chen and Peter Meusel, it has already raised more than $270 million from backers including SoftBank Vision Fund and Xiaomi. The company has also been working with Google DeepMind since spring.
Avelios Medical is also Munich-based. It is building an A.I.-native hospital information system meant to tie clinical and administrative work together and lighten the load on doctors and nurses. Its customers include Sana Kliniken, LMU Hospital Munich and Hannover Medical School. In early 2025, it raised a €30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. Mirelo, founded in Berlin by CJ Simon-Gabriel and Florian Wenzel, makes A.I. models that generate sound effects, speech and music for videos. And Reflex Aerospace, which runs its own production facility in Munich, says its satellites can be ready for launch in about 12 months rather than years. Last year, it raised a €50 million Series A, which it calls the largest in Europe’s new space sector.
These are not Nvidia’s first German bets. It already holds stakes in n8n, Neura Robotics and Black Forest Labs. And this is not just about Germany, either. Nvidia opened its wallet in France last week, too, and the two country packages are part of an almost $10 billion commitment across Europe. Before the tour, the company said it would announce another $2 billion in European deals within a week, according to The Next Web.
The politics are doing a lot of work here. Germany’s government and Nvidia also signed a declaration of intent to push A.I. models for physical A.I., the kind that controls machines and robots in the real world. Merz told midsize companies to open their doors to A.I. and use their data. Huang, meanwhile, said A.I. would add to German engineers’ knowledge, not replace it. Siemens announced its own partnership with Nvidia for autonomous factories as well.
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This is classic Nvidia: invest early, smile for the camera, and hope nobody stares too hard at the circular-financing smell. The IMF has already warned about this kind of A.I. money loop, and the company’s defense is basically that the checks are small. That’s not a rebuttal so much as a shrug with better branding.
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