Alain Tiquet
Alain joined NVIDIA in 1999, and helped establish NVIDIA's European operations from the UK, despite the fact that he is French. After spending time in sales Alain managed the EMEA and India NVIDIA marketing organizations. Alain moved back to France and to the Business Development group in late 2008. He now focuses on overall ecosystem development including investments through the GPU Ventures Program, M&A, partnerships, distribution/co-marketing agreements and technology/patent licenses. Alain is married and has two children, who both live in London. He is an active swimming teacher and life guard, he cooks, enjoys tasting wines from all countries and is a bio gardener.
Startups Pack GTC Israel as Smallest of Them All Sweeps Top Inception Award
NVIDIA’s third GPU Technology Conference in just over a month spilled across Tel Aviv’s convention center this week, in a packed show featuring a live demo of an AI-infused apple-picking… Read article >
NVIDIA Invests in Speech Recognition Startup Deepgram
As the AI ecosystem continues to expand, NVIDIA revealed today that speech analytics startup Deepgram is the newest member of the GPU Ventures portfolio. Founded in 2015, San Francisco-based Deepgram… Read article >
Five AI China Startups Compete for Glory, and a DGX Station
Five CEOs of startups took the stage yesterday at GTC China in Beijing to see who could be the next Jack Ma. They were ostensibly competing for an NVIDIA DGX… Read article >
NVIDIA Invests in Chinese Self-Driving Car Startup, JingChi
NVIDIA GPU Ventures has joined a group of investors led by Chinese venture capitalist firm, Qiming Venture, in investing $52 million in Chinese startup JingChi. Founded last spring by Tony… Read article >
NVIDIA Invests in Chinese Autonomous Truck Startup TuSimple
NVIDIA GPU Ventures has joined a group of investors led by Chinese social media company Sina in investing more than $20 million in Chinese startup TuSimple. Formed in 2015, TuSimple… Read article >