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title: "Some investors and founders say they lost an ally in Jensen Huang; Nvidia held $48B in 229 private companies as of July and offered $165B in cloud backstops (New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/some-investors-and-founders-say-they-lost-an-ally-in-jensen-huang-565b9f37
published: 2026-11-13T19:10:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Some investors and founders say they lost an ally in Jensen Huang; Nvidia held $48B in 229 private companies as of July and offered $165B in cloud backstops (New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-13 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/some-investors-and-founders-say-they-lost-an-ally-in-jensen-huang-565b9f37

New York Times : Some investors and founders say they lost an ally in Jensen Huang; Nvidia held $48B in 229 private companies as of July and offered $165B in cloud backstops — Mr. Huang championed start-ups, with Nvidia holding $48 billion worth of stakes in 229 private companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, at the end of July.

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261113/p24#a261113p24)

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