Hugging Face 🇫🇷 Hiring · 6 open roles ↗
Open platform for machine-learning models and datasets
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face offers a collaborative platform for the machine learning community, enabling users to create, discover, and share models, datasets, and applications across various modalities including text, image, video, and audio. The platform utilizes an open-source stack and provides access to a unified API for over 45,000 models, along with compute solutions for optimized deployment and inference.
Hugging Face is a France-based company founded in 2016, now around 1154 people. It has raised $115M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as Edtech.
Founded by Clem Delangue 🤗 (Co-founder & CEO; repeat founder; previously Mention, Moodstocks; ESCP Business School), Julien Chaumond (Co-founder; repeat founder; previously Corps des Télécommunications, Glose; Stanford University), Thomas Wolf (Co-founder - Chief Science Officer; previously Alcan, Berkeley Lab; Center for International Intellectual Property Studies - CEIPI).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Series A · AI (62 funds), Series A · DeepTech (53 funds), Series A · Life Sciences (20 funds).
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Hiring now · 6 live roles, checked daily
Series C · $100M · May 2022
- Lux Capital — New York-based deep-tech VC investing from seed to growth at the intersection of science, technology and national security: AI, advanced manufacturing, energy, biotech and defence. · cheques £1M – £20M
Series A · $15M · Dec 2019
Funding history
● rounds tracked in this directory · ○ earlier rounds web-verified from public announcements. Amounts as announced; undisclosed rounds omitted.