Fundraising Fox
/People
Sign in

Clément Delangue

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Hugging Face

New York, NY

FoundedHugging Face

Find your path to Clément

1,419 people in our graph share verified history with Clément — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Erica VanunlockedClément: together at Hugging Face (2023–2026)
×4Clément: together at Hugging Face
×6Clément: together at eBay FR/UK
Clément: together at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

About

Clément Delangue turned a teen-focused chatbot app into Hugging Face, the 'GitHub of AI' where the industry shares its models and datasets — valued at $4.5 billion in its 2023 round led by Salesforce with Google and Nvidia, and reported in August 2026 to be exploring a sale at $13 billion or more. From La Bassée in northern France, he was one of France's top eBay sellers at 17, studied management at ESCP with exchanges in Madrid, Bangalore, and Dublin, and cut his teeth at machine-learning startup Moodstocks (later acquired by Google) and social-monitoring startup mention. He co-founded Hugging Face in New York in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf — the three met through a Stanford online-course study group — and pivoted it to open machine learning after BERT's 2018 release. He has testified to Congress as open-source AI's leading advocate.

Likely emails· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Beyond investing

Founded
Co-founded Hugging Face in New York in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf; it began as a chatbot for teenagers and pivoted to the home of open-source ML in 2019. Co-founded UniShared and VideoNot.es, a collaborative video note-taking tool born at a Google hackathon in March 2013.
Communities
Testified before the US House Science Committee on open AI in June 2023; argues open models beat closed APIs.
Awards
Named to TIME's inaugural TIME100 AI list (Leaders category) in September 2023.
Family
From La Bassée, a small town in northern France.
More
Was one of France's top eBay sellers at age 17, before university. Worked in product at Moodstocks, the Paris computer-vision startup Google later acquired, and as CMO of media-monitoring startup mention. The three Hugging Face co-founders met through a Stanford online-course study group.

From published sources — common ground for a warm intro.

Co-founder & CEO at Hugging Face

Intro paths

→

In turn, Clément can intro founders to Hugging Face's investors below.

Hugging Face's investors · 27

A.Capital VenturesSan Francisco · since 2018AIX VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checksBetaworksNew York · $250K – $750K checks · since 2019Betaworks Ventures Management, LlcNew York · $250K – $750K checks · since 2022Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksConnetic VenturesCovington · $250K – $500K checksFelicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFirestreak VenturesGMG VenturesLondon · $630K – $1.3M checksGradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksIntel CapitalSanta Clara · $1M – $20M checksJuniper Ventures Management, LlcSan FranciscoLeonis CapitalSan FranciscoLux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks · since 2019Mercuri.vcLondon · $630K – $1.3M checksMozilla VenturesNight CapitalCapitolaNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2023Premji InvestMenlo ParkQualcomm VenturesSan Diego · $5M checksSalesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checksSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checksSound VenturesSanta MonicaSpice CapitalNew York · $100K – $250K checksStanford UniversityStanford · since 2017STATION FParisSV AngelSan Francisco

Co-founders at Hugging Face

JCJulien Chaumond
Julien ChaumondExecutive Officer, Director
CDClement Delange
Clement DelangeExecutive Officer, Director
TWThomas Wolf
Thomas WolfCo-founder & CSO

Experience

  1. Hugging FaceCo-founder & CEOcurrent2016 — presentGreater New York City Area
  2. mentionProduct & CMO (acquired by Mynewsdesk)2013 — 2014Greater New York City Area
  3. MoodstocksProduct (acquired by Google)2011 — 2012Paris / Dublin
  4. VideoNot.esCo-Founder & CEO2010 — 2011Palo Alto
  5. eBay FR/UKInnovation2010

Skills & more

Entrepreneurship83Start-ups65Product Management28Innovation Management19Social Entrepreneurship14Technological Innovation7Business Development26E-commerce10Mobile Devices9Consulting6Digital Marketing20Marketing1
+8 moreBloggingMobile ApplicationsBusiness StrategySocial NetworkingStart-upMarketing StrategyStrategyManagement

Languages English · French · Spanish

From Clément's professional profile.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Clément Delangue

Special Edition: Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue Talks OpenAI Hack | Bloomberg Tech

Bloomberg Podcasts

Clément Delangue on Face the Nation

CBS News · cbsnews.com

Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble

a16z Podcast · a16z.com

Internet History Podcast | Clement Delangue, Founder And CEO Of Hugging Face @HuggingFace

Internet History Podcast

🎤 Interview [Redif] – Hugging Face : le poids-lourd de l'IA open source (Clément Delangue, Huggin...

Monde Numérique (podcast tech)

AI's Open-Source Future with Hugging Face Co-Founder & CEO Clément Delangue

CNBC Events

3 more appearances

Frequently asked questions

Who is Clément Delangue?
Clément Delangue turned a teen-focused chatbot app into Hugging Face, the 'GitHub of AI' where the industry shares its models and datasets — valued at $4.5 billion in its 2023 round led by Salesforce with Google and Nvidia, and reported in August 2026 to be exploring a sale at $13 billion or more. From La Bassée in northern France, he was one of France's top eBay sellers at 17, studied management at ESCP with exchanges in Madrid, Bangalore, and Dublin, and cut his teeth at machine-learning startup Moodstocks (later acquired by Google) and social-monitoring startup mention. He co-founded Hugging Face in New York in 2016 with Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf — the three met through a Stanford online-course study group — and pivoted it to open machine learning after BERT's 2018 release. He has testified to Congress as open-source AI's leading advocate.
Where does Clément Delangue work?
Clément Delangue is Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face.
What companies did Clément Delangue found?
Clément Delangue founded Hugging Face.
Where did Clément Delangue go to school?
Clément Delangue studied at Stanford University (Non-degree program, Introduction to computer science | Programming methodology); ESCP (Master in management, Management); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (PGP, Management).
What awards has Clément Delangue received?
Named to TIME's inaugural TIME100 AI list (Leaders category) in September 2023.
What podcasts and interviews feature Clément Delangue?
Tracked appearances include "Special Edition: Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue Talks OpenAI Hack | Bloomberg Tech", "Clément Delangue on Face the Nation", "Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble", and 6 more.

Founder mafias

Same school

Shared employers