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Hugging Face Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Hugging Face was acquired by NVIDIA for $13B in August 2026, a 86.0x multiple on $150M of revenue.
Hugging Face revenue at acquisition
$150M
Last twelve months · Aug 2026
Hugging Face revenue multiple at acquisition
86.0x
EV/Revenue · Aug 2026
Cumulative funding Hugging Face raised
$395M
across 6 funding rounds
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a Paris-headquartered platform hosting the Transformers library for pre-trained models in natural language processing, computer vision, audio analysis, and multimodal applications. The company maintains the Hugging Face Hub repository with datasets, model cards, and collaborative Spaces for deploying interactive demos. It delivers enterprise-grade tools such as Inference API, AutoTrain, and dedicated endpoints for scalable model deployment. Founded in 2016, Hugging Face partners with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to support open-source AI development across global developer communities.
Founded
2016
HQ
Website
Status
Acquired
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Usage-based
Revenue
$130M (Aug 2023)
Valuation
$4.5B (Aug 2023)
Hugging Face Acquisition
Hugging Face was acquired by NVIDIA for $13B on 26 August 2026.
The acquisition price implies a 86.0x revenue multiple on $150M of revenue.
Before the acquisition Hugging Face had raised $395M across 6 funding rounds.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal would value the open-source AI platform at a steep premium to its reported annualized revenue of about $150 million, implying a valuation multiple of roughly 86x sales based on that run rate. The transaction follows Nvidia’s earlier relationship with Hugging Face as an investor: the chipmaker participated in the company’s 2023 funding round, which valued Hugging Face at $4.5 billion, and Nvidia had explored a $500 million investment offer that would have valued the company at $7 billion. The acquisition fits Nvidia’s broader push to deepen its position across AI infrastructure and developer tooling, while Hugging Face brings a major open-source model repository and AI platform with a rapidly scaling commercial business. Hugging Face was founded in 2016 and is based in New York. The company hosts millions of open-source models and datasets and had grown its annualized revenue from about $100 million two months earlier to about $150 million by late August 2026.
| Acquirer | Date | Type | Price | EV/Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Strategic M&A | $13B | 86.0x |
Hugging Face Valuation
Hugging Face is currently valued at $4.5B, based on its Series D in August 2023.
The $235M round was led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA, Sound Ventures, Qualcomm, Amazon, AMD and 3 other investors.
Hugging Face's valuation has grown 2.3x from $2B at its Series C in May 2022 to $4.5B in August 2023, across 2 priced rounds.
Hugging Face valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 | Series D | $4.5B | 34.6x |
| May 2022 | Series C | $2B | 200.0x |
Hugging Face Revenue
Hugging Face's latest recorded revenue is $130M, as of its Series D in August 2023. At a $4.5B valuation, that implies a 34.6x revenue multiple.
Revenue grew from $10M in May 2022 to $130M in August 2023, while the revenue multiple moved from 200.0x to 34.6x.
Hugging Face revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 | $130M | $4.5B | 34.6x | Series D |
| May 2022 | $10M | $2B | 200.0x | Series C |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Hugging Face Funding History
Hugging Face has raised a total of $395M across 6 funding rounds.
Hugging Face's first fundraising round was a $1M angel round in March 2017. The most recent completed round was a $235M Series D in August 2023.
Hugging Face funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 | Series D | Salesforce Ventures (lead); NVIDIA; Sound Ventures; Qualcomm; Amazon; AMD; Intel; Alphabet; IBM | $235M | $4.5B | Hugging Face, a New York-based open-source AI platform often called the 'GitHub for AI,' raised $235 million in a Series D funding round on August 24, 2023, led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Amazon, AMD, Google, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Sound Ventures. The round valued the company at $4.5 billion post-money, doubling its previous $2 billion valuation from a $100 million Series C in May 2022. All investors are active users of the platform, which hosts over 1 million repositories including 500,000 models, 250,000 datasets, and 250,000 spaces for machine learning apps, serving more than 50,000 organizations and 10,000 customers. The platform enables AI developers to collaborate on open-source code, models, and datasets, with paid features like AutoTrain for model training automation, Inference API for hosting without infrastructure management, and Infinity for faster data processing in production. Hugging Face also develops original models such as the 176-billion-parameter BLOOM large language model, competing with GPT-3.5, and tools like Starcoder and HuggingChat. The company had raised $395.2 million total prior to this round and planned to use proceeds to expand in research, enterprise, and startups while growing its 170-person team. Reports noted the $4.5 billion valuation exceeded 100 times annualized revenue, though exact figures were not disclosed by the company. This positioned Hugging Face among top AI unicorns like Anthropic and Stability AI, amid surging investor interest in AI infrastructure during 2023. Partnerships included AWS hosting its LLMs and IBM integration with watsonx, underscoring its role in collaborative AI development. |
| May 2022 | Series C | Lux Capital (lead) | $100M | $2B | Hugging Face, a New York-based AI startup, operates the Hugging Face Hub, a platform hosting artificial intelligence models, code, and datasets, often called the GitHub of machine learning. It serves over 100,000 organizations, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, supporting AI projects with open-source tools and enterprise offerings like a managed AI hosting platform and AutoTrain for simplifying model training. On May 9, 2022, Hugging Face closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Coatue, and existing investors such as Addition, Betaworks, and AIX Ventures. The round valued the company at a post-money $2 billion, up significantly from prior rounds. At the time, Hugging Face had generated less than $10 million in revenue from its commercial products in the previous year (2021), primarily through paid enterprise features introduced since monetizing in 2021. The funding was intended to support product development, research, open-source initiatives, and scaling infrastructure and hosted services. Post-round, Hugging Face had approximately $140 million in cash reserves, including $40 million from prior rounds, positioning it for growth in MLOps, commercialization, and addressing biases in machine learning models. This round preceded a larger Series D in August 2023 raising $235 million at $4.5 billion valuation. |
| Mar 2021 | Series B | Addition (lead) | $40M | - | Hugging Face raised $40 million in a Series B funding round in March 2021 led by Addition, with participation from Lux Capital, A.Capital, Betaworks, and others including Alex Wang and Kevin Durant. The company develops an open-source library called Transformers for natural language processing (NLP), enabling use of models like BERT and GPT for tasks such as text classification, question answering, and generation; it has thousands of GitHub stars. At the time, Hugging Face was cash-flow positive in January-February 2021, with 90% of its prior $15 million Series A still unspent, and reported $10 million in revenue for 2021 per Forbes. The funding was intended to triple headcount in New York and Paris, including remote roles, and support its business model of prioritized support, private models, and hosted inference API for clients like Bloomberg and Typeform. Hugging Face's revenue grew from $10 million in 2021 to $15 million in 2022 and reached approximately $50 million annualized by 2023, later estimated at $70 million ARR. The company has raised over $398 million total across multiple rounds from investors including Sequoia, Coatue, and tech giants like Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and Salesforce in later financings. It positions as an AI/ML platform akin to GitHub, monetizing via paid plans and enterprise managed services. |
| Dec 2019 | Series A | Lux Capital (lead); Richard Socher; Betaworks; Augusto Marietti; Thirty Five Ventures; Greg Brockman; A.Capital Ventures; Charles Zedlewski | $15M | - | Hugging Face raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital in December 2019. At that time, the company was known for its open-source natural language processing library that had achieved significant adoption among developers. The company's business model and revenue generation details were not publicly disclosed for this early funding period. Historical records show the company began monetizing in 2021 with approximately $10 million in revenue that year, growing to $15 million in 2022 and $70 million ARR by 2023, eventually reaching $130 million in 2024 revenue estimates. |
| May 2018 | Seed | Ronny Conway (lead); Betaworks; SV Angel; Thirty Five Ventures; A.Capital Ventures; Kevin Durant | $4M | - | Hugging Face raised a $4 million seed round in May 2018 led by Ronny Conway from A.Capital Ventures, with participation from Betaworks, SV Angel, Kevin Durant, and others. This followed an angel round of $1.2 million in March 2017 led by Betaworks. The funding supported team expansion and accelerated product development for its emotionally intelligent chatbot app targeting teenagers for entertainment. At the time, the app handled 1 million messages per day and had received over 100 million messages total across platforms like App Store, Kik, and Messenger. The company focused on building conversational AI with strong personality, emphasizing emotions and surprise over perfection. |
| Mar 2017 | Angel | Betaworks (lead); Richard Socher; Clement Benoit; SV Angel; Terrence Rohan; Thibaud Elziere | $1M | - | - |
Who has invested in Hugging Face?
24 investors have backed Hugging Face across its funding rounds, including Betaworks, SV Angel, Lux Capital, A.Capital Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures and Richard Socher.
Lead investors include Salesforce Ventures, Lux Capital, Addition, Ronny Conway and Betaworks.
Hugging Face Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Lead | Mar 2017 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2017 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2017 | ||
| 2 | Participant | May 2018 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Dec 2019 | ||
| 2 | Participant | May 2018 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Lead | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Lead | May 2018 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Mar 2017 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Aug 2023 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Dec 2019 | ||
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Start Free TrialAcquisitions by Hugging Face
Hugging Face has acquired 5 companies to date.
Last acquisition by Hugging Face was on April 14th 2025. Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics for undisclosed valuation.
Latest Acquisitions by Hugging Face
| Description | Pollen Robotics is a Grenoble-based developer of humanoid service robots designed for object interaction and manipulation. The company's robots feature advanced AI for natural human-robot collaboration in hospitality, retail, and domestic environments. It provides open-source platforms for researchers and integrators worldwide. | XetHub is a collaborative data storage platform designed for managing large datasets and deploying generative AI applications. San Francisco-headquartered, it unifies models, embeddings, prompts, data, and code under Git-like version control workflows. XetHub enables teams to handle petabyte-scale repositories with efficient check-ins and branching. The platform supports AI/ML pipelines for enterprises building production-grade language models and inference services. | Argilla is a Barcelona-based open-source platform for data-centric AI, specializing in natural language processing tools for humans-in-the-loop workflows. It enables collaborative annotation, fine-tuning, and evaluation of large language models with integrations for Hugging Face and LangChain, used by enterprises scaling RLHF processes. | Gradio is a San Francisco-based data platform accelerating AI model development through streamlined data labeling and curation. Its data engine detects mislabels, prioritizes high-value samples, and automates cleaning for machine learning datasets. Adopted by teams at Hugging Face and other AI labs, Gradio processes computer vision, NLP, and tabular data. The open-source interface library enables rapid demo creation for models. Founded by alumni from Stanford and MIT, it supports deployment on cloud platforms like Google Colab. | |
| HQ Country | |||||
| HQ City | Bordeaux | Seattle, WA | Madrid | San Francisco, CA | |
| Deal Date | 14 Apr 2025 | 8 Aug 2024 | 13 Jun 2024 | 16 Dec 2021 | |
| Valuation | undisclosed | undisclosed | $10M | undisclosed | |
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Investments by Hugging Face
Hugging Face has invested in 1 company to date.
Latest investment by Hugging Face was on November 7th 2022. Hugging Face invested in Photoroom in their $19M Series A round.
Latest Investments by Hugging Face
| Description | Photoroom is a Paris-headquartered AI platform for instant product photography on mobile devices. The app removes backgrounds, relights images, and generates studio-quality visuals for e-commerce sellers using iOS and Android. Serving over 10 million users, Photoroom integrates with Shopify and Amazon, processing millions of edits monthly for brands like Shein and Etsy merchants. |
| HQ Country | |
| HQ City | Paris |
| Deal Date | 7 Nov 2022 |
| Round | Series A |
| Raised | $19M |
| Investors | Balderton Capital; FJ Labs; Adjacent; Meta |
| Valuation | undisclosed |
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Hugging Face Competitors
Hugging Face competitors include listed companies like Presight AI and Z.ai, and private ones like Lovable, Thinking Machines Lab, ElevenLabs and SambaNova.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | $500M | - | $13B | 26.6x | ||
| Private | - | - | $12B | - | ||
| Private | $500M | - | $11B | 22.0x | ||
| Private | $100M | - | $11B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $825M | $214M | $5.7B | 5.4x | ||
| Publicly listed | $108M | ($658M) | $46B | 65.9x |
Hugging Face Public Comps
Hugging Face is no longer listed, but its public comps include iFlytek, MiniMax Group, Tempus AI, Range Intelligent, IonQ, UiPath, SenseTime Group, Presight AI, Tenable and XtalPi.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $4B | $465M | 3.7x | 3.4x | 31.7x | 40.6x | |||
| $79M | ($1.9B) | 131.8x | - | (5.5x) | - | |||
| $1.3B | ($131M) | 12.0x | 10.1x | (116.0x) | 346.0x | |||
| $846M | $803M | 20.7x | 16.0x | 21.9x | 19.7x | |||
| $130M | ($531M) | 109.9x | 40.3x | (26.9x) | (39.1x) | |||
| $1.6B | $70M | 3.7x | 3.5x | 85.8x | 13.7x | |||
| $748M | ($70M) | 6.9x | 5.8x | (73.5x) | 113.7x | |||
| $825M | $214M | 6.3x | 5.4x | 24.4x | 20.8x | |||
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Common questions about Hugging Face
| When was Hugging Face founded? | Hugging Face was founded in 2016. |
| Where is Hugging Face headquartered? | Hugging Face is headquartered in New York City, NY, United States. |
| Is Hugging Face publicly listed? | No, Hugging Face was acquired by NVIDIA in August 2026. |
| Who acquired Hugging Face? | Hugging Face was acquired by NVIDIA in August 2026. |
| How much was Hugging Face acquired for? | Hugging Face was acquired for $13B in August 2026, a 86.0x revenue multiple. |
| What is Hugging Face's valuation? | Hugging Face was last valued at $4.5B in its Series D in August 2023. |
| How much funding has Hugging Face raised? | Hugging Face has raised $395M across 6 funding rounds. |
| What was Hugging Face's last funding round? | Hugging Face's last funding round was a $235M Series D in August 2023, led by Salesforce Ventures. |
| Who are Hugging Face's investors? | Hugging Face's investors include Betaworks, Richard Socher, SV Angel, Thirty Five Ventures, Lux Capital, A.Capital Ventures, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Ronny Conway and 14 others. |
| What is Hugging Face's revenue? | Hugging Face's latest recorded revenue is $130M (August 2023). |
| What is Hugging Face's revenue multiple? | Hugging Face's latest valuation implies a 34.6x revenue multiple ($4.5B valuation on $130M of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Hugging Face? | Companies comparable to Hugging Face include Lovable, Thinking Machines Lab, ElevenLabs, SambaNova, Presight AI and Z.ai. |
| How many companies has Hugging Face acquired? | Hugging Face has acquired 5 companies, including Pollen Robotics, XetHub, Argilla, Gradio and Sam:). |
| What was the largest acquisition by Hugging Face? | The $10M acquisition of Argilla in June 2024 is the largest acquisition Hugging Face has made to date. |
| How many companies has Hugging Face invested in? | Hugging Face has invested in 1 company, including Photoroom. |
| What was Hugging Face's last investment? | In November 2022, Hugging Face invested in Photoroom's $19M Series A alongside Balderton Capital, FJ Labs, Adjacent and 1 other investor. |
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