Hugging Face

The AI community building the future. https://t.co/TpiXQMQ9rZ

Consumer and socialBetaworks Camp

Latest funding

$235M Series B+ · August 24, 2023

Source: TechCrunch

Total raised: $354M across 4 sourced rounds

All 5 rounds ↓

Acquired by NNvidia on September 3, 2026 for $13B · reuters.com.

Website: huggingface.co.

X: @huggingface · 830,424 followers.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com.

Category: Consumer and social.

Sectors: AI.

Subcategory: AI community platform.

Stage: Series B+.

Based in: Brooklyn, United States.

Founded: 2016.

Total raised: $354M in 4 sourced rounds.

Last round: Aug 24, 2023 · 1,176 days ago.

Headcount: 101–250 employees.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 22, 2026.

Signals

X account@huggingface · created Sep 22, 2016 (10 years old) · 830,424 followers

Website registeredJul 18, 2016 (10 years old)

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Hugging Face | 674 days from website to first raise on record

@huggingface·Raised $354M in 4 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

September 3, 2026
Acquired by NNvidia · $13B
Source: reuters.com
August 24, 2023
Series B+ · $235M
Source: TechCrunch
May 9, 2022
Series B+ · $100M
AAddition (lead), FFlorian Douetteau, KKevin Durant, LLudovic Huraux, LLux Capital, NNicolas Steegmann, OOlivier Pomel, PPaul St. John, RRich Kleiman, RRichard Socher, TThibaud Elziere
Source: fundraisingfox.com
December 17, 2019
Series A · $15M
LLux Capital (lead), AA.Capital Ventures, AAugusto Marietti, BBetaworks Ventures, CCharles Zedlewski, GGreg Brockman, KKevin Durant, RRichard Socher, TThirty Five Ventures
Source: techcrunch.com
May 23, 2018
Seed · $4M
RRonny Conway (lead), AA.Capital Ventures, BBetaworks Ventures, KKevin Durant, SSV Angel, TThirty Five Ventures
Source: 1010computers.com
September 22, 2016
X account created
July 18, 2016
Website created
BotCamp
BBetaworks Camp · batch
Source: betaworks.com

Founders and team

CD
Clement Delangue Founder

@clementdelangue
JC
Julien Chaumond Founder

@julien_c
TW
Thomas Wolf Founder

@Thom_Wolf · LinkedIn
DL
David Louapre AI Scientist & Educator
MC
Mrinal Chatterjee Senior Vice President
PC
Pedro Cuenca Machine Learning Engineer
SP
Sayak Paul Developer Advocate Engineer
XN
Xuan-Son Nguyen Software Engineer

Acquisitions

Acquired company	Price	Announced
SSam:)	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
GGradio	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given
AArgilla	$10M	Date not given · pymnts
XXetHub	Not disclosed	Date not given · VentureBeat
PPollen Robotics	Not disclosed	Date not given · Engadget

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Sources and API

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