---
title: "September 8 VC News: Mistral €3B Series D at €21B+"
description: "Gap-fill on the September 8 pass: Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics at a post-money of more than €21 billion. June €20 billion copy was talks. Roundup-only: Veridue $4 million pre-seed (Tech Funding News). Does not duplicate open PR #140 (Jet Zero, Navana, Cato, Jaipur, Fundly, Molten, W Health)."
date: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["2026-vc-news", "venture-capital", "startup-funding", "fund-tracker", "market-analysis", "europe-vc"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-september-8-investment-news-mistral-series-d
---

# September 8 VC News: Mistral €3B Series D at €21B+

> Gap-fill on the September 8 pass: Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics at a post-money of more than €21 billion. June €20 billion copy was talks. Roundup-only: Veridue $4 million pre-seed (Tech Funding News). Does not duplicate open PR #140 (Jet Zero, Navana, Cato, Jaipur, Fundly, Molten, W Health).

September 8 converts Mistral from **talks** to a **company close**. [Mistral](/startup/mistral-ai) announced a **€3 billion (~$3.5 billion)** Series D at a post-money of **more than €21 billion**. Samsung Electronics led. Scaleup Europe Fund (EQT) and PSG Equity co-led. June Bloomberg/TechCrunch **€20 billion** was **people familiar**, not this post. ARR was **not disclosed**. Dated snapshot **September 8, 2026**. Source: [Mistral](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/).

This tape does **not** take Jet Zero, Navana, Cato, Jaipur Robotics, Fundly, Molten Growth, or W Health Fund II. Those are on open [PR #140](https://github.com/advissor/cf-page-venturecapitaltrackercom/pull/140).

## What printed September 8

| Date | Entity | Amount | Type | What is actually known | Follow-up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sep 8 | [Mistral AI](/startup/mistral-ai) | **€3B (~$3.5B)** | Series D | Samsung led. Scaleup Europe Fund + PSG co-led. **€21B+** post-money. **No ARR.** Samsung cheque **unknown**. | [Mistral memo](/2026-mistral-3b-series-d-samsung-eqt) |

USD uses Bloomberg’s June print of **€3 billion as $3.5 billion**. The company post does not restate dollars.

## Roundup only

### Veridue — $4M pre-seed (energy / data-center diligence)

[Tech Funding News, September 8](https://techfundingnews.com/veridue-raises-4m-pre-seed-episode-1-renewable-energy-ai/): London **Veridue** raised **$4 million** pre-seed. **Episode 1 Ventures** led. HTGF, Pi Labs, Cameron Hepburn, and Jeremy Palmer participated. Founders: Daniel Csonth (ex-McKinsey energy M&A) and Xander van den Eelaart (ex-SCOR agentic underwriting). Product is diligence / IC-memo workflow for renewable and data-center deals. “Largest European energy-software pre-seed” is a **company/investor claim**; TFN says limited data. **No** company blog used this pass. **No** `/startup/veridue`. Confidence: **reported**.

## Explicitly not this index

- Jet Zero Australia A$30M, Navana.ai ₹40 Cr, Cato €6M, Jaipur Robotics €4.3M, Fundly.ai ~$4M, Molten Growth £175M, W Health Fund II ₹700 Cr — open [PR #140](https://github.com/advissor/cf-page-venturecapitaltrackercom/pull/140).
- Ground A **€9.1M**, Outline **$3M**, sci2sci **€1.2M** — TFN headlines this morning; **no durable primary fetched this pass**. Do not promote.
- Pixxel **$100M**, Fluencify, Mokobara, Cari — already on [September 6–7 space tape](/2026-september-6-7-investment-news-space-fintech-creator) (merged PR #138).
- Nua **$50M** mixed Series C — [September 6–7 Nua tape](/2026-september-6-7-investment-news-nua-india-wellness).
- Nvidia–Hugging Face **$12.93B** — **agreed, not closed**. [Memo](/2026-nvidia-hugging-face-12-9b-acquisition). Nvidia is a **returning** Mistral name on the Series D; do not merge the two.

Related: [Mistral memo](/2026-mistral-3b-series-d-samsung-eqt) · [Mistral entity](/startup/mistral-ai) · [Nua tape](/2026-september-6-7-investment-news-nua-india-wellness) · [September hub](/2026-september-vc-news).

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**Last updated:** September 8, 2026

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