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title: "Decart's $300M: World Models Get NVIDIA, Sequoia, and a $3.1B Valuation"
description: "Decart raised $300M Series C led by Radical Ventures — real-time generative worlds for gaming, robotics, and physical AI with NYC + Tel Aviv ops."
date: 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["2026-vc-news", "startup-funding", "venture-capital", "ai-infrastructure", "market-analysis"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-decart-300m-series-c-world-models-ai
---

# Decart's $300M: World Models Get NVIDIA, Sequoia, and a $3.1B Valuation

> Decart raised $300M Series C led by Radical Ventures — real-time generative worlds for gaming, robotics, and physical AI with NYC + Tel Aviv ops.

Chatbots had their moment. **World models just raised $300M.**

### Deal facts
- **$300M** led by **Radical Ventures**  
- **New investors:** NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, Toyota Ventures, eBay Ventures, Valor, Atreides  
- **Returning:** Sequoia, Benchmark, Zeev  
- **Notable angels:** Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, Nintendo family office  

### What Decart actually builds
**Real-time generative environments** — interactive video, simulation, synthetic data for **gaming, robotics, and physical AI**. Offices in **San Francisco, New York, and Tel Aviv**.

### Why NVIDIA showing up matters
When the GPU monopoly invests in your world model stack, they're not being polite — they're **securing the simulation layer** for robotics and training data pipelines.

### Practical takeaway
**Founders:** Frontier AI isn't only LLMs — **spatial/interactive models** are a parallel gold rush.  
**Investors:** $3.1B valuations require **enterprise or platform distribution**, not demo reels alone.

### Sources
1. FinSMEs: https://www.finsmes.com/2026/05/decart-raises-300m-in-funding.html
2. Tracxn: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/decart/__DN2FiU18wkbSGOH1X92_iLVWN4R5bhFLyu4TZnwXFjg
3. AlleyWatch: https://alleywatch.com/2026/05/the-weekly-notable-startup-funding-report-5-25-26/

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