Angel investor in listed AI tools
Richard Socher
Richard Socher has backed 4 companies behind 4 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
Source techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/…
Hugging Face, Inc. Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
Source techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/…
Hugging Face Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023
Source techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/…
Weights & Biases (CoreWeave) valued at $1.25B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Strategic round, August 2023
Source insightpartners.com/ideas/…
Where they invest
Open-weight models 2 GPU & serverless compute 1 Agent observability & evals 1
Founders they backed
- Clément Delangue Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- Julien Chaumond Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- Thomas Wolf Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- Lukas Biewald Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- Chris Van Pelt Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- Shawn Lewis Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
Questions
Which AI tools has Richard Socher invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face and Weights & Biases (CoreWeave) backed by Richard Socher.
How are Richard Socher's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Carbon-X (C, 61), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7), SmolLM3-3B (C, 61) and W&B Weave (B, 66.7).
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