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Mistral Raises €3B at €21B Led by Samsung, Selling Open Weights as the Anti-Lock-In Purchase Order
Mistral announced a €3B ($3.5B) Series D on 2026-09-08 at a post-money above €21B, led by Samsung Electronics with Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT) and PSG Equity as co-leads, plus Advent, BlackRock and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as new investors. It nearly doubles the €11.7B valuation from a year ago and is the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company. The pitch to its 125+ enterprise customers across 20 countries (Airbus, ASML, HSBC) is explicitly a procurement argument rather than a benchmark one: open weights plus a full stack (Vibe, Vibe for Code, Studio, Forge, AI Cloud) so buyers are not "locked into a single vendor's roadmap, pricing or availability."
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