# Varza Sees No Sign Nvidia Is Pulling Back From France Commitments

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-11-13T11:41:03.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-13T11:41:03.000Z
Section: Business

> Nvidia named four French AI startups as targets in a European commitment worth nearly $10 billion announced Oct. 13.

Roxanne Varza, director of Paris startup campus Station F, said she sees no sign Nvidia is pulling back from its France commitments after Jensen Huang’s Nov. 12 departure. Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is serving as interim CEO.

Nvidia announced the commitments Oct. 13 as part of a European commitment worth nearly $10 billion. Four French AI startups were named as targets: Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI and Pigment. Doctolib operates a health care booking and services platform; Entalpic works on materials for semiconductors; Genesis AI is a robotics company; and Pigment makes enterprise planning software.

The plans add to Nvidia’s earlier investments in French technology companies Alice&Bob, Gradium and Scintil Photonics.

Varza said French founders are largely reassured. She described the immediate effect of Huang’s departure as reputational rather than operational and said founders are considering the risks of building companies too closely around one leader.