GTC 2025 promises to highlight the latest in advanced AI interconnection and distributed AI, showcasing breakthroughs in enterprise AI infrastructure and AI cloud computing that will drive AI-powered business transformation. From groundbreaking AI startups to industry giants, the conference brings together the brightest minds in high-performance computing and data science.
Leading the charge are members of NVIDIA’s Inception program (including Stelia) who are set to showcase how they’re redefining AI infrastructure and data mobility. Below, we dive into which Inception startups to watch, their booth locations, and why you won’t want to miss their sessions.
NVIDIA’s Inception program is a startup accelerator that supports AI, data science, and high-performance computing startups. At GTC events, the “Inception” category typically highlights sponsors or exhibitors that are part of this program—innovative startups like Stelia showcasing their AI-driven solutions. 
Stelia will provide ongoing coverage in anticipation of GTC 2025 kick-off, covering the transformative potential of the companies represented, key technological innovations, and market trends for 2025. Let’s first take a look at this year’s batch of Inception Startups represented at GTC.
Which NVIDIA Inception Startups will be there?
Stelia’s hyperscale data mobility solution shatters traditional cloud constraints, empowering AI teams with simple resource allocation, global reach, and flexible scalability across compute, storage, and networking environments.
Be sure to stop by Booth 1033 to speak to the Stelia team at GTC 2025! Book a meeting with the team here.
Stelia (Booth 1033) Gold Sponsor
- Stelia’s AI acceleration platform transforms enterprise AI adoption through intelligent orchestration of the global AI ecosystem. Our universal front-end enables borderless data mobility and distributed AI resource optimization, letting organizations deploy AI anywhere at any scale. Connecting enterprises to unlimited AI innovation, without boundaries.
Stelia: Keynotes, Talks or Demos at GTC 2025?
Of course! In addition to our in-person session at GTC, we will have plenty of buzz and activity surrounding the Stelia Booth (1033). Don’t miss your opportunity to meet with the team, or hear the latest developments and technical commentary at our exclusive speaking session.
Attend our session presented by David Hughes – VP of Engineering, “Beyond Silos: Unlocking AI’s Full Potential with Petabit-Scale Data Mobility” Tuesday, Mar 18 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM PDT and learn how interconnected, elastic infrastructures are transforming AI at every level. We’ll dissect:
- Why traditional cloud computing creates bottlenecks for AI
- How a petabit-scale platform accelerates data mobility
- The blueprint for building an interconnected compute model
Other Gold Sponsors
Baseten (Booth 1233)
- Baseten’s AI inference platform offers industry-leading performance, security, and scale for organizations building AI products. With features like on-chip model optimization, autoscaling, and a developer-friendly interface, Baseten enables rapid, secure, and cost-effective deployment, ensuring businesses can maintain competitive user experiences while adhering to strict compliance requirements.
Minio (Booth 1232)
- MinIO has pioneered high-performance object storage. Built for peta and exascale sized AI/ML workloads, MinIO delivers linear performance from the laptop to the datacenter – keeping GPUs busy. MinIO’s DataPod reference architecture outlines how to build in 100 PiB scalable units using software-defined storage, GPUs and commodity hardware.
Simplismart (Booth 2003)
- Simplismart is a cloud-agnostic and model-agnostic MLOps platform designed to help you train, monitor, and deploy GenAI workflows with unmatched performance, scalability, and efficiency. With the fastest inference deployments in the industry, it streamlines workflows and offers end-to-end control, enabling enterprise-grade solutions in just a few clicks.
Together.ai (Booth 1332)
- Together AI is the leading AI Acceleration Cloud. It enables developers and businesses of all sizes to build and run Generative AI applications with best performance and cost at production scale while maintaining ownership of their models and data.
Silver Sponsors
Codeium (Booth 1501)
- Codeium is an AI-powered code assistant that helps accelerate time to delivery through context-aware capabilities across the software development life cycle, maximize competitive advantage through technological excellence, and minimize operational risk in AI strategy.
Lablup (Booth 547)
- Lablup makes AI accessible offering Backend.AI, the first NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software in APAC as a MLOps platform. It provides top-class efficiency and speed using patented fractional GPU scaling for all-size AI workloads including GenAI and LLMs to all industries like telco, finance, healthcare, etc.
Lightning AI
- Lightning AI is an all-in-one platform for AI development from the creators of PyTorch Lightning. It enables teams to code, prototype, train, scale, and serve models directly from the browser, with zero setup. Develop and deploy custom, cutting-edge models 80% faster and at 60% lower TCO.
Marvik (Booth 1701)
- Marvik is a hands-on AI consulting and development company. It helps Fortune 500 companies create and execute their AI and data science roadmaps and make data-driven decisions. Marvik specializes in developing end to end AI and data engineering solutions to meet requirements of each business.
Bronze Sponsors
Aviz Networks
- Aviz offers AI Networking Unpacked, a data-centric stack which is vendor agnostic and supports multiple ASICs, switches, NOS, clouds, LLMs, and integrates seamlessly with AI and security applications.
Inception Sponsor Keynotes, Talks or Demos at GTC 2025?
- Stelia – David Hughes (VP of Engineering)Attend our session, “Beyond Silos: Unlocking AI’s Full Potential with Petabit-Scale Data Mobility” Tuesday, Mar 18 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM PDT and learn how interconnected, elastic infrastructures are transforming AI at every level. Event details from NVIDIA – don’t miss out on this informative speaking session!
Fellow Inception Startups like Baseten, Minio, Codeium, Lablup, Lightning.AI, Marvik and Aviz Networks will be hosting a range of speaking sessions. Be sure to find the full catalogue on the NVIDIA portal to schedule your GTC plans.
What other Inception startups will be part of the exhibition?
With over 100+ Inception Startups on the Exhibition floor, it’s never been a better time to participate in GTC 2025 – and experience the Stelia vision brought to life –unlimited AI innovation, without boundaries.
Please see the full list of GTC exhibitors on the NVIDIA GTC portal.
