Mistral raises €3B Series D at over €21B valuation led by Samsung
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
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Mistral announced a €3 billion Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics with co-leads Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity. The company says the funding will expand frontier research, compute capacity, infrastructure, and international growth, and that it now operates in 20 countries with 125+ enterprise customers including Airbus, ASML, and HSBC.
AIWhy it matters
The round shows how a company frames sovereign, open-weight AI as a full stack spanning models, infrastructure, compute, and products, which is useful context for European enterprise AI strategy.
Source: Mistral AI · mistral.ai