# Richard Socher (slim)

> Richard Socher's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face and Weights & Biases (CoreWeave), 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 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
  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/
- **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
  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/
- **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
  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/
- **Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)**, valued at $1.25B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Strategic round, August 2023
  - [W&B Weave](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wandb-weave.md), graded B, 66.7/100
  - Source: https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/weights-and-biases-raises-45m-series-b-to-expand-beyond-experiment-tracking-for-machine-learning-practitioners-everywhere/

## Where they invest

- Open-weight models, 2
- GPU & serverless compute, 1
- Agent observability & evals, 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
- [Lukas Biewald](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lukas-biewald/), Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- [Chris Van Pelt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-van-pelt/), Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- [Shawn Lewis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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).

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.