Founded in 2016, Hugging Face operates in artificial intelligence. Its most recent disclosed valuation is $4.5B. Its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
2 valuations. The latest, $4.5B post-money, was set by the Series D in Aug 2023.
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Sound VenturesBBetaworks VenturesLux CapitalAdditionRonny ConwayHugging Face is a French-American machine-learning company based in New York City, founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf. It runs a hub where developers share models, datasets and applications, and it maintains the widely used Transformers library for natural language processing. The company also builds the SmolLM family of compact language models.
More than 50,000 organizations, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Intel, host models on the Hugging Face Hub. In August 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, after Hugging Face had turned down a $500 million offer from Nvidia in late 2025.
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Valuations, rounds and IPO status for every company in the directory — Hugging Face included.
No. Hugging Face is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
The last valuation is $4.5B.
Lead investors for each round are in the funding timeline.
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