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Nvidia kicks off Early Stage Challenge with $100K prize for best GPU startup

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Nvidia announced today that it has kicked off the entries for its 2016 Early Stage Challenge, which offers a $100,000 prize for the best startups using graphics processing units (GPUs).

Nvidia is the world’s largest standalone maker of GPUs, and it uses the contest to filter the best new startups in its ecosystem. The graphics chip maker has opened up the applications and will select a dozen competitors to compete on stage at its Emerging Companies Summit in 2016.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.