French founders

The French diaspora in US tech

By Matthieu Demolin and Dealroom Next-Gen API

Nvidia’s purchase of Hugging Face is the largest exit so far for a company founded in France and headquartered in the United States. Dealroom counts 94 such companies. Widen the lens to founders who studied in France and the list takes in Snowflake, Datadog and Safe Superintelligence: 43 of America’s 2,613 unicorns and thoroughbreds.