Clément Delangue: Co-founder & CEO at Hugging Face | Profile

Clément Delangue

Co-founder & CEO / Hugging Face

Clément Delangue is the Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the leading open and collaborative platform for AI builders. He is a central figure in the open-source AI movement, advocating for accessible, transparent, and responsible machine learning. Prior to Hugging Face, he was involved in other successful startups, including Moodstocks, which was acquired by Google.

Master in management, ESCP Business School

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Career

Hugging Face

Co-founder & CEO

Jul 2016 - Present

Responsibilities

Democratizing good machine learning, one commit at a time. We raised $160M from Sequoia, Coatue, Lee Fixel, Lux, Betaworks, the first investors at Instagram & Snapchat, the chief scientist at Salesforce and Kevin Durant.

mention

Product & CMO (acquired by Mynewsdesk)

Jul 2013 - Aug 2014

Responsibilities

Wired named mention as one of the hottest European startups for 2014. I've built their marketing & growth department from the ground up, and led the team in charge of acquisition, activation, conversion & retention of 200K+ users, with clients ranging from The Home Depot to Github, Spotify or Microsoft. We've reached 40% of the daily acquisition through mobile thanks to cross-device promotion, ASO and growth hacking tactics. I've opened and led mention's American office, accountable for 40% of the overall company revenue.

Moodstocks

Product (acquired by Google)

Mar 2011 - Feb 2012

Responsibilities

Moodstocks provides a platform for anybody to build mobile applications that can see. It got adopted by big businesses like Volkswagen, Auchan, Gaumont, Castorama, Citroën, Ricard,... startups like Qrators, Augmentedev, Capturio, Camping Express,… and independent developers. Also, mobile apps have been built with Foursquare, Twitter and Paypal.

VideoNot.es

Co-Founder & CEO

Jun 2010 - Jul 2011

Responsibilities

VideoNot.es is the leading note-taking platform for the digital age. It has reached more than 2 million pageviews. Accelerated at Imagine K12, the Y Combinator for education. UniShared is the platform for open & collaborative note-taking. It opened more than 2,000 classrooms all over the world. Powered by MakeSense & Google Drive.

eBay FR/UK

Innovation

May 2010 - Dec 2010

Responsibilities

The innovative strategy of eBay is to become the global marketplace where you can find everything you need at the best price, not only from individual sellers and SMEs but also from big brands, large enterprises and high street retailers. As I was amongst the first professional seller on the platform at the age of 17, I joined the EU Enterprise Team and the wider eBay Team to turn this strategy into business results both in France and in the UK.