Nvidia Billionaire Coxe Gifts $100 Million to UT Medical Center

Billionaire Nvidia Corp. board member Tench Coxe and his wife Simone are donating $100 million to help launch a medical center at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest gifts in school history.

The unrestricted donation will fund priorities such as hiring, construction and expanding programs for the new medical center, which is expected to open in 2030, according to the university.

Simone and Tench Coxe

Photographer: Emily Kinsolving/University of Texas

“Great medical care changes lives, and we want more people to have access to it,” Simone Coxe said in a statement. “What inspired us was a bold vision to build something here that could ...