NVIDIA said on November 9, 2026 that it has made an investment in the Korean startup Point2 Technology and plans further investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage. The announcement came in a post on the NVIDIA blog published under the byline NVIDIA Writers, tied to the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum held at COEX in Seoul.
The forum was co-hosted by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA, Vice Minister of Science and ICT Ryu Je-myung joined NVIDIA leaders to meet more than 20 Korean startups working on foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors. The company framed the four named companies as a cross-section of the full AI stack, from infrastructure through models to robotics applications.
Point2 Technology is the one company where an investment has already been made. NVIDIA describes it as an AI interconnect company that builds radio-frequency-based links for moving data between chips and racks in AI factories, positioned as an alternative to conventional copper and optical interconnects for scaling up AI clusters. The other three are listed as planned investments. Motif Technologies is a Seoul-based AI lab building foundation models for agents, including Motif-3, a large language model released with open weights. RLWRLD develops robotics foundation models for humanoid and industrial robots, aimed at tasks that need five-finger dexterity such as inserting components or threading nuts onto bolts. Upstage builds the Solar language models and document AI tools for business workflows.
No investment amounts, valuations, stakes or closing dates were disclosed, and the post does not say whether the planned investments will come through NVIDIA's own venture arm or another vehicle. The wording separates a completed investment in Point2 from intentions for the other three, and readers should keep that distinction.
The startups are not strangers to NVIDIA's other Korea announcements from the same weekend. A separate NVIDIA post by Amr Elmeleegy lists deployment recipes for Korea's open models running on NVIDIA Dynamo, including Motif-3 and Upstage's Solar Open 2. NVIDIA also published a deal with Rebellions and SK Telecom on NVLink Fusion infrastructure. The startup investments sit beside those infrastructure and model-serving moves as the commercial piece of the same push.
NVIDIA says the planned investments build on its work with Korea's startup and venture community, including more than 1,000 Korea-based members of NVIDIA Inception, its program offering startups preferred pricing, technical expertise and introductions to investors.
All facts here come from NVIDIA's own post. The financial terms remain undisclosed, and no statement from the four startups or from MSIT about the investments was reviewed for this package.