Year 2026 retool, reset or melt?Even as AI funding surges, capital concentration and thinning differentiation among startups signal valuation reset and consolidation, says...
06 Jan, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Lightspeed's Ravi Mhatre & Bejul Somaia on AI bubble, new India fund & moreHappy Wednesday! Silicon Valley-based Lightspeed's partners spoke to us exclusively on all things AI. This and more in today's ETtech Morni...
19 Nov, 2025, 10.55 AM IST
ETtech Interview: Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre & Bejul Somaia on the AI bubble, India opportunity & moreLightspeed Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-based investment firm, is of the view that despite the current valuation "euphoria" i...
19 Nov, 2025, 10.40 AM IST
Swiss AI startup Giotto.ai seeks funding at over $1 billion valuation, sources saySwiss AI lab Giotto.ai is seeking over $200 million in funding, aiming for a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Positioning itself as a Europe...
23 Sep, 2025, 09.45 AM IST
First French AI billionaires emerge after €11.7 billion Mistral funding roundMistral AI's three founders, Arthur Mensch, Timothee Lacroix, and Guillaume Lample, are now billionaires. A recent funding round valued the...
11 Sep, 2025, 04.10 PM IST
Mistral AI raises 1.7 billion euros as ASML becomes its top shareholderASML is investing 1.3 billion euros in Mistral AI as part of a series C funding round, making it Mistral's main shareholder as it will hold...
09 Sep, 2025, 11.18 AM IST
ASML becomes Mistral AI's top shareholder after leading latest funding roundASML is set to become the largest shareholder in French AI startup Mistral AI by investing €1.3 billion in its €1.7 billion fundraising rou...
07 Sep, 2025, 09.56 PM IST
France's Mistral hails DeepSeek's AI modelThe French firm's own Thursday release, "Mistral Small 3", is "competitive with larger models" including Meta's Llama or Qwen, developed by...
31 Jan, 2025, 04.18 PM IST
Mistral, the French generative AI underdog taking on US giantsMistral was set up in April 2023 by Arthur Mensch, a graduate of France's prestigious Polytechnique engineering school with a mop of unruly...
16 Jan, 2025, 08.02 AM IST
EU's Vestager meets French tech firm Mistral AI amid competition concernsIn February, Microsoft invested $16 million in Mistral AI and partnered with them to make its artificial intelligence models available thro...
26 Apr, 2024, 08.57 PM IST
India Inc should support startups: Zomato CEO; Capillary’s fundingZomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said established businesses in India should nurture startups, but without the intention of owning them. This and...
27 Feb, 2024, 07.39 PM IST
France's Mistral AI raises 105 million euros shortly after being set upThe fund-raising highlights the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) sector as well as Europe's desire to create rivals to Sili...
14 Jun, 2023, 12.32 AM IST