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Hugging Face
Open-source platform for building and deploying AI models
At a glance
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Dig: Hugging Face — Nvidia ACQ premature (agreement ≠ closed; H1 2027)
Sep 20, 2026
News
Inside OpenAI's Navier-Stokes agent swarm — Noam Brown on multi-agent, RSI and alignment
Sep 18, 2026
News
OpenAI starts systematic misalignment disclosure — six GPT-5.6 Sol incidents in six months
Sep 17, 2026
Analysis
European diaspora have built $1.8T of unicorns abroad
Sep 6, 2026
Analysis
The most valuable companies in the European Diaspora Index
Sep 6, 2026
Analysis
Europe’s first-time exits, 2024 to 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Hugging Face.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed6 investors entered at this stage
The Chernin Group
SV Angel
A_Capital- KDKevin Durant
- RCRonny Conway
- BEbetaworks
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- RSRichard Socher
- GBGreg Brockman
Lux Capital
Series B and later22 investors entered at this stage
Nvidia
Addition VC- IBIBM
Qualcomm- FVFirestreak Ventures
Coatue Management- PJPaul St. John
Sequoia- FDFlorian Douetteau
Amazon- AWAlex Wang
Alphabet | Google- AVAIX Ventures
- TVThirty Five Ventures
- AMAMD
Sound Ventures
Salesforce- OPOlivier Pomel
- Salesforce Ventures
- ICIntel Corporation
- RKRich Kleiman
- DIDev Ittycheria
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Hugging Face employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
FAFactoryEst. 2023
Eno ReyesUnited States
FAFarsight AIEst. 2022
Kunal TangriUnited States
KTKotoba TechnologiesEst. 2023
ACAchiraEst. 2024
Zavain DarUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
4 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Hugging Face was the backer or acquirer, 2021–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across Hugging Face's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Hugging Face's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Hugging Face on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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