{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-mistral-series-d/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-mistral-series-d/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-09-08-mistral-series-d","date":"2026-09-08","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Mistral raises €3B at €21B valuation, Europe's largest-ever tech equity round","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Mistral - Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier","url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"mistral.ai"},{"n":2,"title":"Mistral - Mistral x HUMAIN (Aug 24)","url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-humain/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"mistral.ai"},{"n":3,"title":"Mistral - Mistral and Mozilla bring open, private, multilingual AI to your browser (Sept 16)","url":"https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"mistral.ai"},{"n":4,"title":"Mistral - Hallo, Deutschland! 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