# Florian Douetteau (slim)

> Florian Douetteau's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Linkup and Hugging Face, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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Angel investor.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/
- **Hugging Face, Inc.**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/
- **Linkup**, Seed, February 2026
  - [Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.md), graded B, 68.9/100
  - Source: https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/business-and-professional-services/linkup-raises-10m-seed-round-led-by-gradient-to-build-web-search-1132439
- **Hugging Face**, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hugging-face-raises-40-million-for-its-natural-language-processing-library/

## Where they invest

- Open-weight models, 2
- GPU & serverless compute, 1
- Web search APIs, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Philippe Mizrahi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/philippe-mizrahi/), Linkup
- [Boris Toledano](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/boris-toledano/), Linkup
- [Denis Charrier](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/denis-charrier/), Linkup

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Florian Douetteau invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Linkup and Hugging Face backed by Florian Douetteau.

### How are Florian Douetteau's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Carbon-X (C, 61), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7), Linkup (B, 68.9) and SmolLM3-3B (C, 61).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.