Lead investor in the Series D round; CEO Arthur Mensch said Samsung plans to use Mistral's AI technology to improve its chip manufacturing systems, tying the investment to a commercial/technology partnership beyond pure capital.
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Arthur Mensch (Mistral CEO)
Directing capital toward Mistral-owned data centers plus rented compute capacity, aiming to grow owned compute around 100% over five years.
Existing investor that re-participated in the Series D; also a compute/infrastructure partner as Mistral scales owned and rented capacity.
Existing investor (previously led Mistral's Series C) and enterprise customer, continuing to back Mistral as strategic European sovereign AI infrastructure.
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Johan Bergqvist (Mistral CFO)
Articulated the sovereign-AI rationale for the raise, emphasizing Europe needing its own AI provider to avoid geopolitical dependency.
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Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT) / PSG Equity
Co-leads of the round alongside Samsung, reflecting EU policy interest in scaling a sovereign European AI champion.