Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

# Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation | TechCrunch Source: [https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/mistral-is-rumored-to-be-raising-e3b-at-e20-valuation/](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/mistral-is-rumored-to-be-raising-e3b-at-e20-valuation/) In Brief Posted: 10:38 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 **Image Credits:**Photo by Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto / Getty ImagesFrench AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion \($3\.5 billion\), Bloomberg[reported](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/france-s-mistral-in-funding-talks-at-about-20-billion-valuation)Friday, citing anonymous sources\. The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion \(about $23\.15 billion\), nearly double the €11\.7 billion valuation it[received](https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership)in a Series C funding round last September\. One of Europe’s leading AI startups, Mistral launched in 2023 with the stated ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone\.” The company has taken a more open approach to its AI development compared to its American rivals,[offering](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/overview)some foundational large language models with open weights, allowing anyone to customize them as they see fit\. The company also offers closed models tailored for use cases such as programming, voice cloning and generation, and optical character recognition\. Lately, with European countries[distancing](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/)themselves from American tech, Mistral has[positioned](https://mistral.ai/news/ai-for-citizens)itself as a friendlier, “sovereign” and homegrown alternative\. The company is setting up[a data center near Paris](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/mistral-ai-raises-830m-in-debt-to-set-up-a-data-center-near-paris/)and has partnered with[France’s army](https://www.numerama.com/tech/1887772-mistral-ai-devient-un-nouvel-atout-technologique-pour-larmee-francaise.html), the[government of Luxembourg](https://gouvernement.lu/en/actualites/agenda.gouvernement2024%2Ben%2Bactualites%2Btoutes_actualites%2Bcommuniques%2B2025%2B06-juin%2B17-frieden-mistral-ai.html), and[several](https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership)major European[companies](https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-and-mistral-announce-strategic-partnership-in-defence-ai)\. Still, Mistral has only raised about $4 billion to date, per Pitchbook, a fraction of what U\.S\. rivals OpenAI \($186 billion\) and Anthropic \($161\.25 billion\) have taken in\. These labs are also valued much, much higher, reflecting how much further American labs have pulled ahead in revenue, model adoption, and enterprise demand\. Mistral did not immediately return a request for comment\. ### Newsletters Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news ## Related ## Latest in Fundraising