Methodology: How TIME and Statista Determined America’s Growth Leaders of 2025

To supply the AI boom that has driven markets in the last few years, the demand for chips and computing infrastructure has dramatically increased, and California-based hardware tech company Nvidia (no. 1), which had already been making specialized chips for gaming called GPUs, was able to repurpose those chips for AI and create a market that didn’t yet exist, allowing it to reap significant profits from innovative, industry-defining deals. In an August 2025 financial report, the company said that its revenues were up 56% compared to a year ago, at $46.7 billion. Although it still made around $4.3 billion from its gaming division, the majority of its current revenue comes from its data centers business, which includes the sales of its GPU chips, servers, supercomputers, software tools, and other AI cloud infrastructure. “The strong year-on-year and sequential growth was driven by demand for our accelerated computing platform used for large language models, recommendation engines, and generative and agentic AI applications,” Nvidia’s CFO Colette Kress wrote. As a sign of its leadership in the space, it’s also been investing in experimental projects like data centers in space.