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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Hugging Face raised.
Companies Hugging Face acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Clem Delangue | CEO · Founder | turingpost.com, cbsnews.com |
Stories naming Hugging Face. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Former Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin warns rogue AI agents in enterprises are inevitable and discusses Aigentsphere, her AI-monitoring startup, which raised a $4 million seed round from Main Sequence in April.
AFR cybersecurity topic page rounding up recent stories: Origin Energy's data breach investigation, Point Wild's planned ASX float, AI models hacking companies, and a CyberCX–Monash University cybersecurity degree partnership.
Turing Post interviews Hugging Face's co-founder and CEO on open-source AI, arguing open models empower a far larger builder community, discussing robotics hardware sales, cybersecurity arguments, and lobbying against open source in the US.
Melbourne vector-search startup Marqo has announced a $4.4 million seed round, with Blackbird Ventures leading and Creator Fund, January Capital and Cohere's co-founders also in; the piece recalls its pre-seed and rivals' raises.
CBS News broadcasts Margaret Brennan's conversation with Hugging Face's co-founder and chief executive about a breach of the company's systems by an autonomous agent arising from an OpenAI-trained model.