GitHub for AI — open-source model hub and ML platform
AI📍 New York, NYFounded 2016
Current Valuation
$4.5B
as of 2023-Q3
UNICORN
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Hugging Face going public?
No. Hugging Face has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Hugging Face's valuation in 2026?
Hugging Face is valued at $4.5B as of 2023-Q3, set by its Series D ($235M, Aug 2023). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Hugging Face filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Hugging Face.
Who are Hugging Face's investors?
Hugging Face's investors include Google, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia and 2 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Hugging Face hosts the world's largest open-source AI model and dataset hub (1M+ models, 200K+ datasets). The Transformers library is the de facto standard for AI development. Last priced at $4.5B in 2023; widely seen as undervalued vs current AI platform comparables.
Company Profile
CEO
Clement Delangue
Founded
2016
HQ
New York, NY
Employees
~250
Total Raised
$395M
Est. Revenue
$100M (2024)
Growth
~3x YoY
Last Round
Series D — $235M (Aug 2023) · Lead: Salesforce Ventures
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series D · $235M · 3y ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $395M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$47.27
Last round price / share
$25.25
vs last round
+87.2%
Open interest
3
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series D
$235M
Aug 2023
Salesforce Ventures
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
19
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
984,762
across all models
Followers
103,992
Top model
autoformer-tourism-monthly
571,034 downloads / 30d
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Hugging Face" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
29% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
7
via workable
Product-build share
86%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 86% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 4 of 7 open roles are engineering.
Counted from Hugging Face's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Clement DelangueJulien ChaumondThomas Wolf
Investors
Google · Nvidia · AMD · Amazon · Salesforce Ventures · Sequoia · a16z · IBM
Products
Hub (1M+ models)
Transformers (Python lib)
Datasets
Inference API
Spaces (apps)
AutoTrain
Competitors
GitHub (MSFT) · Replicate · Together AI · Modal
AIOpen SourceDeveloper Platform
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2023-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.