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Mistral

European open-weight frontier.

HQ
Paris
Founded
Apr 2023
Web
mistral.ai
Camps
LLM scaling

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What it does

Mistral is Europe's open-weight frontier lab. ASML led its €1.7B Series C in September 2025 and took an 11% stake, valuing the company at €11.7B.

Camp membership over time

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    Scale next-token prediction
    European open-weight frontier; ASML is its largest shareholder.
    Sources CNBC 2025-09-09

Capital

AmountKindValuationDateInvestorsSource
$113Mseed $260M post-moneyJun 2023 Lightspeed €105M. TechCrunch
$415MSeries A $2B post-moneyDec 2023 Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed €385M. TechCrunch
$640MSeries B $6.20B post-moneyJun 2024 General Catalyst €600M at €5.8B. TechCrunch
$2BSeries C $13.80B post-moneySep 2025 ASML €1.7B at €11.7B post-money; ASML contributed €1.3B for about 11%. CNBC, Mistral AI

People

Arthur MenschArthur MenschCEO and co-founder