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French AI start-up Mistral seeks funding at $10B valuation to compete with U.S., Chinese rivals

French AI start-up Mistral seeks funding at $10B valuation to compete with U.S., Chinese rivals

CryptopolitanCryptopolitan2025/08/03 00:45
By:By Hannah Collymore

Share link:In this post: Mistral has announced its plan to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from €5.8B. The company’s revenue is on track to go beyond $100M annually. The raised funds may support its planned €8.5B data center project.

Mistral is targeting a bumper cash inflow that could push its valuation to $10B in a new fundraising round as it pushes to compete with U.S. and Chinese competitors. 

The French AI startup is seeking $1B in new funding to position itself as Europe’s leading competitor to U.S. and Chinese AI firms with deeper pockets.

Mistral’s $1B raise to scale infrastructure and product reach

The new fundraising round will value the company at approximately $10B, marking a significant jump from its previous €5.8B valuation. The planned raise includes interest from venture capital investors and Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund. The proceeds are expected to support the commercial rollout of Mistral’s chatbot and further improve its LLMs.

Since its inception in 2023, Mistral has positioned itself as an alternative to U.S. companies like OpenAI and Google. The company’s LLMs are designed to be modular and accessible, allowing users to adapt the models to their unique needs.

Since its last fundraising in June 2024, when it raised €600M, Mistral is now on track to exceed $100M in annual revenue if its current sales momentum holds. That growth has been largely driven by a few high-value enterprise contracts.

Current customers of the company include BNP Paribas, AXA, and CMA CGM, whose billionaire owner Rodolphe Saadé is also a supporter of the startup. Mistral’s investor base also includes Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, France’s public investment bank BPI France, and telecom magnate Xavier Niel.

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Europe wants its own sovereign AI

French President Emmanuel Macron has been an advocate for the development of a “sovereign” European AI, and Mistral is widely considered the region’s best shot at building such a capability.

However, U.S. rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic have set a high bar in technological scale and fundraising. Mistral’s $10B target, while impressive for a two-year-old start-up, shows the gap between the company and U.S. industry leaders.

The firm’s emphasis on openness and model customization places it in competition with Meta’s Llama models and China’s Deepseek, both of which are pushing modular and freely accessible AI tools.

In May, the company announced its plans to build a large-scale data center outside Paris as part of its long-term strategy to support AI model training and deployment. The new capital could help progress this data center effort, increasing Mistral’s capacity to scale its models and serve a bigger customer base.

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