About
Timothée Lacroix co-founded Mistral AI in 2023 and serves as Chief Technology Officer, having been a research engineer at Meta AI where he worked on the LLaMA models with co-founder Guillaume Lample. He built the training and inference infrastructure that let a young European lab ship competitive frontier models on a fraction of US compute budgets.
Co-founder & CTO at Mistral AI
Intro paths
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In turn, Timothée can intro founders to Mistral AI's investors below.
Mistral AI's investors · 20
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026BpifranceParis, Ile-De-France · $270K checks · since 2026ConvictionSan Francisco · $1M – $25M checksDatabricks VenturesSan FranciscoEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEuropean Investment FundLuxembourgFactorial FundsSan Franciscofirstminute capitalLondon · $1.3M – $3.8M checksGeneral CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2026Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checksIntegra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksKima VenturesParis · $50K – $5M checksKorelya CapitalParisLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2026Millennium New HorizonsSilicon ValleyMillennium Technology Value PartnersBelgradePUSH VenturesViennaredalpineZug · $108K – $2.2M checksSV AngelSan FranciscoValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark City
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Co-founders at Mistral AI
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Arthur MenschCo-founder & CEO
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Guillaume LampleCo-founder & Chief Scientist
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Timothee LacroixCo-founder and CTO
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Timothée Lacroix work?
- Timothée Lacroix is Co-founder & CTO at Mistral AI.
- What companies did Timothée Lacroix found?
- Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI.
Paths to reach Timothée
People who overlapped with Timothée at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.
Together at Mistral AITimothée: Co-founder & CTO
Arthur MenschCo-founder & CEO of Mistral AIÉcole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay · École Polytechnique · Télécom ParisGuillaume LampleCo-founder & Chief Scientist of Mistral AIJan HammerInvestor at Index VenturesAiglon College · INSEAD · University of OxfordJulia AndreInvestor at Index VenturesÉcole nationale des ponts et chausséesPierre-Eric LeiboviciInvestor at DaphniBabson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business · University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneJordan SegallPartner at Redpoint Ventures
