India, Feb. 20 -- Early stage AI-startups focused venture capital fund Activate has partnered NVIDIA to provide founders with the global chipmaking giant's pool of development resources. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the ongoing 'India AI Impact Summit 2026' in New Delhi.

Founded by Aakrit Vaish, the former CEO and cofounder of AI startup Haptik, Activate backs startups in their 'inception' or ideation stage. Through the partnership, the startups that receive funding from Activate will also gain mentorship from NVIDIA in addition to access for its Nemotron family of open-source models for building agentic AI platforms.

Founders will be able to use Nemotron's open weights or parameters, training data and recipes, which ar...