Clem Delangue is Co-founder and CEO at Hugging Face, the leading open-source platform for AI builders valued at $4.5 billion with over 5 million developers. He also serves as a sourcing partner at Factorial Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on technical AI startups.

Clem studied at ESCP Business School and Stanford University, and worked in product at Moodstocks, a machine learning startup for computer vision that was acquired by Google. He became a prominent eBay seller in France at age 17.

Clem testified before US Congress on open-source AI and has made 33 investments in AI startups through his angel investing activities. He champions democratizing AI through open-source collaboration and transparency.

Hugging Face raised $400 million across 8 rounds from investors including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Salesforce, and IBM. The platform hosts over 3 million models, datasets, and apps used by 15,000+ companies.

Hugging Face has become the GitHub of AI, serving as critical infrastructure for the AI industry with over 1 million open-source repositories. The platform democratizes AI development and enables innovation across NLP, computer vision, and robotics.