32 NVIDIA deals moved talent in: Mellanox’s 2,700 lead the count, and since 2025 the pattern shifts to license-plus-hire

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“tell me about Nvidia acquiring startups and hiring people from there. all the transfers, who where and which geographical regions”

All 32 completed NVIDIA company or asset acquisitions and license-plus-hiring transfers found as of 2 Nov 2026 (2002–2026). Public reporting names transferred leaders for 9 deals and gives team sizes for 8 — blank people cells mean the source did not disclose them, not that nobody moved. 21 deals have a resolvable origin location and appear on the map; 10 have unresolved origin geography. Locations are the acquired company’s base, not proof of physical relocation: many teams stayed put and reinforced local NVIDIA offices.

Where the acquired teams came from

Show deals through:2026
whole-company acquisition asset acquisition license + targeted hiring (2025 on) circle area = disclosed headcount joining (small fixed dot when undisclosed)

Transfers and disclosed people by origin region

People totals sum only disclosed figures; regions with no disclosed headcount show “not disclosed”, never zero. 10 of 32 deals have no resolved region and are excluded here.

Israel is the strongest disclosed cluster — Mellanox (~2,700 people), Run:ai (~150), Excelero (30) and Deci AI, about 2,880 disclosed people across four Middle East deals. en.globes.co.il
The three most recent big moves are licenses plus hiring, not acquisitions: Enfabrica (>$900M, CEO Rochan Sankar joined), Groq ($20B license, founder Jonathan Ross and ~550 staff), and Poolside ($6B license with job offers to 109 employees). reuters.com
Named leaders are reported for 9 of 32 deals — among them Michael Kagan and Eyal Waldman (Mellanox), Stan Boland (Icera), Omri Geller and Ronen Dar (Run:ai), Ville Miettinen (Hybrid Graphics). grokipedia.com
Data-quality flags: Illumex is listed with city New York but country Israel, Poolside carries conflicting Paris/United States origin fields, and Bright Computing spans the United States and the Netherlands with no single coordinate — all shown as reported, not corrected. startupsacquired.com

All 32 transfers, oldest first

DateCompanyStructureNamed people joiningPeopleOriginDeal valueSource

Method: 32-row transfer-level dataset, one row per normalized NVIDIA deal (2002–2026), assembled 2 Nov 2026 from several broad live-web searches across hundreds of candidate pages and 16 distinct source hosts; the most-used single page backs 7 of 32 rows (secondary-source historical entries). People counts and deal values are reported figures, not independently audited; blanks mean undisclosed. Map shows 21 deals with resolvable origin coordinates; origin is the company’s base, not employee relocation. Region aggregates come precomputed in the dataset.

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