NVIDIA deepens Nordic AI bets with startups & partners
Fri, 16th Oct 2026 (Today)
NVIDIA has expanded its investments and partnerships in the Nordic technology sector, including backing Swedish startups Lovable and Legora.
The moves are part of a broader push across the region, where data centre operators, industrial groups and software companies are increasing their use of AI infrastructure and tools.
Over the past year, NVIDIA invested in Lovable, a Stockholm-based software creation startup, and Legora, which develops software for legal work. Lovable is working with NVIDIA on inference for open models and on training models with NVIDIA Dynamo software and Nemotron tools. Legora offers an agentic operating system that lawyers use for research, review and drafting.
Infrastructure build-out
NVIDIA also highlighted a wider expansion of AI infrastructure in the Nordics. AI cloud providers across the region are on course to deploy 1 gigawatt of capacity by the end of 2027, including Bitdeer, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Hyperstack, Nscale, Verda and Volta.
In Sweden, a consortium led by Ericsson, AstraZeneca, Saab, SEB and Wallenberg Investments, with SKF as a strategic partner, has launched Sferical One, a shared supercomputer based on two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs. The installation includes 16 racks of NVIDIA DGX GB300 systems and 1,152 GPUs. The group plans to build services with NVIDIA Nemotron open models in a secure environment for researchers.
The regional backdrop is notable because the Nordics have become Europe's leader in unicorn startup density on a per capita basis. NVIDIA argues that renewable energy supplies, data governance standards and long-standing links between academia and industry have given the region an advantage in attracting technology infrastructure.
Industrial use cases
Several established Nordic companies are already using NVIDIA systems in live deployments. Spotify is using NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM inference software for podcast recommendations, aiming to lower the cost per query while maintaining the same recommendations for users globally.
ABB Robotics has developed RobotStudio HyperReality using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. The system combines simulation tools with ABB's virtual controller, which runs the same firmware as its physical robots. This lets engineers train, test and validate robots in a virtual setting using real-world data. ABB Robotics says the system delivers up to 99% simulation accuracy and cuts commissioning time by up to 80%.
Finnish telecoms group Elisa is launching a beta version of Moontalk AIRI, a real-time assistant for meetings and calls. Built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models and distributed infrastructure, it is designed to retrieve information, capture insights and document decisions using company data and low-latency networking.
Startup activity
The announcement also highlighted the pace of startup funding in Sweden. The country's startup ecosystem raised USD $2.8 billion in the first half of 2026 and is projected to reach USD $5 billion for the full year.
Among the companies cited, Stilta is using NVIDIA Nemotron open models in patent analysis to expand work from single patents to entire portfolios. ConfidentialMind's SampoTron, built on NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Embed, recorded more than 20% higher cross-lingual retrieval accuracy across English, Finnish and Swedish, according to NVIDIA.
Agaton is using NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in software that analyses customer conversations in real time, while Klang has fine-tuned the NVIDIA Parakeet v3 model to create Pianissimo, a Swedish transcription model. NVIDIA says Pianissimo reduces errors by 75% and runs 64 times faster than the most accurate alternative, based on more than 50,000 hours of Swedish speech and the open-source NVIDIA NeMo framework.
Embedl, founded in Gothenburg, has worked with Space Cargo Unlimited on an onboard prototype that monitors protein crystallisation and recommends actions on a single NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module without continuous ground connectivity. Sweden AI Factory, one of Europe's 19 EuroHPC-funded AI factories, has also announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to give startups and smaller businesses access to infrastructure and expertise.
Transport and quantum
NVIDIA's Nordic ties also extend to transport and automation. Volvo Cars is combining its safety systems and engineering work with NVIDIA Hyperion, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack for automated driving, while autonomous freight company Einride is building its next-generation Einride Driver on NVIDIA Hyperion, using the NVIDIA Halos safety system and NVIDIA Cosmos open world models.
Toyota Material Handling Europe is working with NVIDIA and SoftServe on a simulation-first approach for autonomous material handling. The company says this cuts deployment time for autonomous solutions by up to 50% across its engineering, manufacturing and innovation teams.
In quantum computing, Stockholm-based FirstQFM used NVIDIA accelerated computing to train a model that reduces quantum processor execution time by 33% without reducing performance. The model was validated on a QuantWare quantum processor unit and is designed to optimise how quantum algorithm operations are translated into hardware instructions.