NVIDIA Acquires Predictive AI Startup Kumo AI for Over $400 Million

According to Beating Monitor, NVIDIA has acquired Kumo AI, a five-year-old predictive AI startup, in a deal reportedly exceeding $400 million. The acquisition aims to leverage Kumo’s predictive large models to provide structured data-based predictive analytics services for enterprise customers. Kumo’s three co-founders—former Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski, Stanford University professor Jure Leskovec, and former LinkedIn AI lead Hema Raghavan—joined NVIDIA in May 2026. Enterprise structured data consists of interrelated tables that are typically difficult for large language models to directly interpret. Kumo combines graph machine learning techniques with synthetic data generated in simulated enterprise environments to train proprietary large models capable of predicting customer churn or payment defaults, enabling intelligent forecasting of enterprise data warehouses. NVIDIA may integrate Kumo’s technology into its AI Foundry software service, helping enterprises combine private data with domain-specific knowledge to customize proprietary models tailored to their business scenarios. In April 2026, Kumo released its latest predictive model, KumoRFM-2. Current Kumo partners and customers include DoorDash, Reddit, Databricks, and Snowflake. Compared to its $20 billion acquisition of Groq’s inference chip technology licensing at the end of 2025, NVIDIA prefers smaller-scale acquisitions. According to securities regulatory filings, NVIDIA’s total acquisition spending over the past five years amounts to approximately $3 billion.