# Paul St. John (slim)

> Paul St. John's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc. 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/
- **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

## 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

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Paul St. John invested in?

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

### How are Paul St. John's companies graded?

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