Series D · $235M
$235M Series D.
Open Weight Labs · Private company · Deployment
Hugging Face
✓ VerifiedHugging Face matters not just as a company but as distribution infrastructure for the open-model ecosystem, spanning model hosting, inference, datasets, and tooling.
New York, USFounded 2016API accessDaily review
Editorial intelligence brief
What matters now
Disclosed and began remediating a July 2026 intrusion affecting limited internal datasets and credentials; Hugging Face said it found no evidence of tampering with public models, datasets, or Spaces.
Focus: Open model hosting, datasets, inference, and community releases
Latest funding
$235M
Series D · source-backed
Tracked funding
$235M
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Source-backed financial history
Capital and commercial trajectory
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Tracked total
$235M
Coverage
partial
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Series D · $235M
Running tracked total: $235M
Every numbered chart marker maps to one source-linked funding announcement below.
Axios ↗ source for Series D $235M
Chronological activity
What changed
Disclosed and began remediating a July 2026 intrusion affecting limited internal datasets and credentials; Hugging Face said it found no evidence of tampering with public models, datasets, or Spaces.
A structured event record is still being assembled for this company.
Recent coverage of Hugging Face
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Forbes · Aug 27
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Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
SmolLM3SmolVLM2Idefics3
Products
HubInference EndpointsTransformers
Open weights
Yes
API access
Yes
Review cadence
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Open model hosting, datasets, inference, and community releases
Signals
DistributionOpen communityEcosystem
Taxonomy
Vertical + EnterpriseOpen sourceDeveloper toolsInfrastructure
Competitive context
Together AIDatabricksNvidia
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Hugging Face sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
3 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Managed API + self-hostable weights
03
Market layer
Open Weight Labs
Public product surface
HubInference EndpointsTransformers
Stack signals
Open sourceDeveloper toolsInfrastructureDistributionOpen communityEcosystem
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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