Hugging Face

AI / ML · New York, NY · Series D

$395M raised

Trust

IPO Ready

Momentum

IPO Readiness Assessment

27%

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CFO Hired+15pts

No CFO identified

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General Counsel+10pts

No GC identified

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VP Sales / CRO+10pts

No sales leadership identified

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Patent Portfolio+8pts

No patents detected

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Government Contracts+7pts

No government contracts

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Late-Stage Funding+15pts

Currently at series-d

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Significant Capital+12pts

$395M raised

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Hiring Acceleration+8pts

Normal hiring pace

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Team Depth+8pts

Limited team visibility

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Recent Fundraise+7pts

No recent funding

Investor Quality

25%

Avg IPO Rate

a16z

Coinbase, Instacart, Okta

28%

IPO rate

Lux Capital

Desktop Metal, Shapeways

15%

IPO rate

Tiger Global

JD.com, Spotify, Roblox

31%

IPO rate

Growth

Executive Team

1 tracked

Clem Delangue

founder

Co-founder & CEO

score

Talent Sources

Where this team came from — who they stole from

Limited talent history available. Research task recommended.

Strategic Backers

SEC Verified

High-trust data source

Public companies with strategic investments in Hugging Face — sourced from SEC filings and verified disclosures.

Salesforce

CEO: Marc Benioff

UndisclosedPress Release

Series D · Aug 2023

Investing in open-source AI ecosystem leader. Hugging Face's model hub and transformers library are becoming the GitHub of ML models.

Open-source AI ecosystem betDeveloper community investmentModel marketplace strategy

Signal History

3 signals

Hugging Face Transformers hits 150k stars on GitHub

GitHub repository star count verified directly. 150,012 stars at time of check.

GitHub · official

confidence

medium

Hugging Face partners with AWS for SageMaker integration

Joint blog post. AWS re:Invent announcement. Integration live in SageMaker console.

huggingface.co · official

confidence

medium

Hugging Face acquires Gradio team

Official Hugging Face blog. Gradio team confirmed. Integration completed.

huggingface.co · official

confidence

medium