Ouya originally raised money via crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter before its latest round with Nvidia.
Ouya, a US-based video game console maker, has raised $15m in its series A round from a consortium including Nvidia, which made the chips inside the portfolio company’s devices prior to the investment.
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which had originally backed games developer Electronic Arts, led the round, which also included VC peers Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners.
Jeff Herbst, vice-president of business development at Nvidia, by email said: “We would never try to…
