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Mistral’s origin story has an insurtech founder at its heart

If you’ve been following the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arguably the

“Arthur Mensch is the public face of French AI champion Mistral, but another startup’s CEO has been critical to its $6 billion valuation,” Bloomberg wrote. According to Bloomberg, Samuelian-Werve convinced Lightspeed to lead Mistral’s seed round and contacted many of the investors who ended up backing the AI startup. In the Bloomberg profile, Samuelian-Werve reiterated that Mistral is not for sale, confirming what Mensch said a few days ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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