Matthieu Lapeyre

Co-founder & CEO, Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) — open-source Reachy robotics

📍 Bordeaux, France

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OSINT Profile

Matthieu Lapeyre is co-founder & CEO of Pollen Robotics (Bordeaux, founded 2016 with Pierre Rouanet — ex-Inria Flowers/Poppy), acquired by Hugging Face (April 2025) — bringing the open-source Reachy / Reachy Mini humanoid platforms into HF's embodied-AI push (LeRobot). 'Hugging Face is a natural home for us to grow, as we share a common goal: putting AI and robotics in the hands of everyone.' NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9B on 2026-09-03 ($11.9B to shareholders + up to $1B equity retention for HF employees joining NVIDIA; HF to remain an open platform; expected close H1 2027 pending regulatory approvals; antitrust runway + GPU-neutrality of the Hub are the live radar questions). No public X handle asserted. Named on the HF All Hands roster for the 2026-09-03 announcement.

Public Relation Edge (do not over-claim)

Hugging Face — Pollen Robotics co-founder — acquired by HF (Apr 2025) (acquired_founder)NVIDIA — Acquirer in the ~$12.9B deal (ma_event)hf-nvidia-ma-2026 — Named at the HF All Hands (2026-09-03) (event)Thomas Wolf — HF CSO — LeRobot/Reachy demos (professional)

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📍 Bordeaux, France · 44.8378, -0.5792 — live geo-pin on the $UM-Radar vector map

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✓ https://huggingface.co/matthieu-lapeyre

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