NVIDIA's reported $12.9B Hugging Face deal: early engineer's 0.1% stake worth ~120x
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-03
Preliminary math on the unconfirmed NVIDIA–Hugging Face deal at $12.9B (via zuhayeer):
- An engineer who joined in 2019 with a 0.1% grant ($80k at issuance, modeled off the Dec 2019 Series A) would hold shares worth $9.5M — about 120x.
- The same grant from the 2023 Series D would be only 2.8x in this deal.
- Hugging Face has raised $400M total, halted fundraising in 2023, and $200M remains untouched.
Related event: Nvidia Officially Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion(47 posts)→
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