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Mistral announced a €3 billion (~$3.5B) Series D on September 8, 2026 at a post-money of more than €21 billion. Samsung Electronics led. Scaleup Europe Fund (EQT) and PSG Equity co-led. June Bloomberg/TechCrunch copy was talks at about €20 billion. ARR was not in the company post. Samsung’s cheque size was not disclosed.
A ServiceNow spokesperson confirmed to Geektime and CTech that ServiceNow has acquired Sweep (sweep.io). No company press release. Official terms undisclosed. Geektime sources put the price at about $400 million; CTech wrote hundreds of millions. Insight led the May 2025 $22.5 million Series B; Bessemer returned. Not Sweep the climate company.
TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, said Nscale is in talks for about $3.5 billion of pre-IPO financing — $1.5 billion of convertible notes plus $2 billion from Nvidia. Not a priced equity close. The Information, via TechCrunch: the $103 billion revenue figure is projected lease revenue, not current sales.
TechCrunch, citing several people, said XDOF is in late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion led by 8VC. Check size, pre vs post, and close were not disclosed. XDOF and 8VC did not comment. Last company print: $70 million in June from Thrive, a16z, Spark, Lux, and WndrCo.
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face. Jensen Huang’s September 3, 2026 post names $12,930,300,000. The 8-K split is about $11.9 billion to stockholders plus up to $1 billion in employee retention. Signed September 2. Expected close: first half of 2027. Not closed.
Andreessen Horowitz led Gimlet Labs’ $300M round at a $3B valuation — six months after an $80M Series A — with Arm and Microsoft’s M12 joining the inference-routing bet.
