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About
Daniel Vila is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face, where he works on data tooling and datasets. He previously served as CEO and co-founder of Argilla, which Hugging Face acquired in 2024.
Founder at Argilla
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Argilla's investors · 6
Abstraction CapitalKansas City · $50K – $400K checks · since 2023Criteria Venture TechBarcelona · $550K – $5.5M checks · since 2023Eniac VenturesNew York · $1.2M checks · since 2023SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo Alto · since 2023Vermilion Cliffs VenturesNew York · $200K – $500K checks · since 2023Zetta Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2023
Co-founders at Argilla
CEO at Argilla
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Argilla's investors · 6
Abstraction CapitalKansas City · $50K – $400K checks · since 2023Criteria Venture TechBarcelona · $550K – $5.5M checks · since 2023Eniac VenturesNew York · $1.2M checks · since 2023SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo Alto · since 2023Vermilion Cliffs VenturesNew York · $200K – $500K checks · since 2023Zetta Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2023
Co-founders at Argilla
FD
Francisco de Asis Aranda MontesExecutive Officer, Director
DV
Daniel Vila SueroExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
PA
Paco ArandaCTO
Experience
- Hugging FaceMachine Learning Engineercurrent2024 — present
- ArgillaCEO & Co-founder (acquired by Hugging Face)2017 — 2024
- IE Business SchoolAdjunct Lecturer (Natural Language Processing)2022 — 2023Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de MadridR&D2011 — 2017Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- W3C Best Practices for Multilingual Linked Open Data Community GroupMember2013 — 2016
- InriaVisiting researcher2013
- W3C Government Linked Data Working GroupMember2011 — 2013
- The Open UniversityVisiting researcher2012
- InriaVisiting researcher2012
- W3C Library Linked Data Incubator GroupMember/Editor2010 — 2011
- x:hibit GmbHSoftware engineer2007 — 2010Berlin Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
Git4ElasticSearch3MongoDB1Node.jsLinux4Semantic Web19Linked Data16RDF14Artificial Intelligence7Inteligencia artificial7Web Development7Cultural Institutions2
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Digital LibrariesNatural language processingMachine learningCiencias de la computaciónIngeniería de softwareComputer ScienceDesarrollo de softwareAprendizaje automáticoProcesamiento de lenguajes naturalesLanguages Alemán · Español · Francés · Inglés
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- Who is Daniel Vila?
- Daniel Vila is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face, where he works on data tooling and datasets. He previously served as CEO and co-founder of Argilla, which Hugging Face acquired in 2024.
- Where does Daniel Vila work?
- Daniel Vila is Founder of Argilla.
- What companies did Daniel Vila found?
- Daniel Vila founded Argilla.
- Where did Daniel Vila go to school?
- Daniel Vila studied at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Inteligencia artificial); Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (MSc in Information Technology, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering).
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Also attended Universidad Politécnica de Madrid136
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Shared employers
Also worked at Hugging Face19
Pat GradyPartner at Sequoia CapitalClément DelangueCo-founder & CEO of Hugging FaceThomas WolfCo-founder & Chief Science Officer of Hugging FaceErica VanInvestment Director at Intel CapitalPaulina SzyzdekPrincipal at E12 Venture Capital, LlcBrian BenedictCo-Founder & CRO at Asymmetric Capital Partners
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