# Julien Chaumond

> Julien Chaumond is a seed investor at Hugging Face backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hugging Face](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugging-face)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/julienchaumond
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/julien_c
- Website: https://x.com/julien_c
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chaumond

Julien Chaumond is a seed investor at Hugging Face in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Julien Chaumond is the Co-founder at Hugging Face.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$20M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$9M |
| Series A | $14M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 41% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 24% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 14% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 24% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 34% |
| France | 7 | 24% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| altrove AI | Altrove builds better alternatives to materials that are critical, but insecure. Using the latest advances in AI models and lab automation, altrove designs and builds alternatives to materials we need to reach Net Zero, but for which supply can't meet demand. | $10M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Ankar AI | Ankar AI operates as a next-generation AI Intellectual Property platform. | $4M | Seed | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Pyannote AI | Pyannote AI develops speaker diarization technology that accurately identifies and segments speakers in audio recordings. This technology enables users to analyze conversations by providing detailed insights into who speaks when, facilitating effective communication in various contexts such as meetings and interviews. Pyannote AI offers tools thatintegrate seamlessly with existing workflows, allowing sales teams to enhance their understanding of customer interactions. The company focuses on empowering organizations to leverage conversational data for improved decision-making and strategy development. With its commitment to innovation, Pyannote AI continues to refine its solutions to meet the evolving needs of its clients. | $8.8M | Seed | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Sourcetable | Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Yutori | Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own. | $15M | Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Avataros | AvatarOS is developing the next evolution in interactive human avatars that reach the quality of real life, empowering creators to engage a human audience with the efficiency of artificial intelligence and the authenticity of human individuality. | $7M | Seed | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Argmax | Argmax is a Software Development firm offering developers platform for compression techniques and inference software. | $8M | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Fal | Fal is a generative media platform that focuses on providing developers with tools for creating audio, video, and images using artificial intelligence. The platform enables users to generate media content quickly and efficiently, streamlining the creative process. Fal offers a suite of features that support rapid inference, allowing developers toimplement AI-generated media in their projects seamlessly. | $14M | Series A | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| dottxt | Dottxt offers machine language models for information extraction and classification via API. | $8.7M | Seed | Aug 16, 2024 |  |
| Not Diamond | Not Diamond focuses on optimizing the use of various AI models based on their strengths and capabilities. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [AI Grant](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-grant) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Elaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaia-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Hugging Face

VC Fund · New York, United States

Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

5 contacts available at Hugging Face.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhishek Thakur | Open Source Development and Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhishek-thakur |
| Abubakar Abid | Machine Learning Team Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abubakar-abid |
| Clément Delangue | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clement-delangue |
| Julien Chaumond | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-chaumond |
| Rajiv Shah | Machine Learning Solutions Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajiv-shah-0403 |

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## FAQ

### What does Julien Chaumond invest in?

Julien Chaumond invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Julien Chaumond's check size?

Julien Chaumond typically joins rounds of $2M–$20M at Seed, $1.6M–$9M at Pre-Seed and $14M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Julien Chaumond participates in.

### When did Julien Chaumond last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julien Chaumond closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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