Hugging Face

Open-source provider of natural language processing (NLP) technologies.

Founded

2016

Notable Investors

Sequoia Capital

Headquarters

New York NY, US

Total Funding

$498M

About Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an open-source provider of natural language processing (NLP) technologies. The company develops a chatbot application used to offer a personalized AI-powered communication platform. Its platform analyzes the user's tone and word usage to decide what current affairs it may chat about or what GIFs to send that enable users to chat based on emotions and entertainment. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Investors

A.Capital Ventures

Pinterest, Hugging Face, D2iQ, Uniswap, Weave, Forward Networks, Wizeline, Lugg


Addition

TripActions, Snyk, Chainalysis, Hugging Face, Groq, Lyra Health, Kandji, Primer, Fast, Cometeer


Betaworks

Hugging Face, Medium, Nylas, IFTTT, Anchor


Betaworks Ventures

Hugging Face


Coatue

Swiggy, Relativity Space, Commonwealth Fusion, Lacework, Caris Life Sciences, Hopin, Snyk, Rapyd, SpotOn, Attentive


Lux Capital

Anduril Industries, Relativity Space, Auris Health, Inc., Carbon Health, Anchorage Digital, Flutterwave, Hugging Face, Astranis, Desktop Metal, Benchling


Sequoia Capital

Market Kurly, Robinhood, Airbnb, Instacart, Tokopedia, Stripe, DoorDash, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber, UiPath


SV Angel

Snap, Instacart, Stripe, Anduril Industries, DoorDash, Reddit, Zenefits, Pinterest, Opendoor, Slack


Thirty Five Ventures

Rubrik, Skydio, Hugging Face, Lime, OpenSea, WHOOP, Caffeine, Suzy

Funding History

November 2019$840K
November 2019$3.5M
November 2019$16.2M
February 2021$40.3M
April 2022$49.1M
April 2022$100M
August 2023$50.0M
August 2023$235M

Management

Chief Executive Officer

Clement Delangue

Co-founder

Julien Chaumond

Press

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