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Timothée Lacroix

Unicorn founder

Co-founder and CTO at Mistral AI

Paris, France

FoundedMistral AI$14B

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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.

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Co-founder and CTO at Mistral AI

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Mistral AI's investors · 52

83NorthLondon · $100K – $10M checksAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026Aonia VenturesASML VenturesAmsterdam · since 2025Balderton CapitalLondon · $5M – $50M checksBlackRockNew York · since 2026BNP Paribassince 2023BpifranceParis, Ile-De-France · $270K checks · since 2026Cisco InvestmentsSan JoseConvictionSan Francisco · $1M – $25M checks · since 2023Databricks VenturesSan FranciscoDST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · since 2025E1 VenturesSan Francisco · since 2023Elad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEQTNew York · since 2026Eric Schmidtsince 2023EurazeoParis · since 2026European Investment FundLuxembourgExor Venturessince 2023Factorial FundsSan Franciscofirstminute capitalLondon · $1M – $3M checksForerunner VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checksGeneral CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2026HeadlineSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2023Headline Growth Management, LLCIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2023Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $20M checksKima VenturesParis · $50K – $5M checksKorelya CapitalParis · since 2026La FamigliaBerlin · since 2023Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1M – $5M checks · since 2026LocalGlobeLondon · since 2023M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Millennium New HorizonsSilicon ValleyMillennium Technology Value PartnersBelgradeMotier VenturesParis · $330K – $3.3M checks · since 2023NVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Ora GlobalNew YorkPhoenix CourtLondonPSG EquityBoston · since 2026PUSH VenturesViennaredalpineZug · $108K – $2.2M checksRedpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checks · since 2023Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2023SofinaBrussels · $100M – $300M checks · since 2023SpeedinvestVienna · $5M – $30M checksSV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checksValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityVertis SGRNaplesXavier Nielsince 2023

Co-founders at Mistral AI

AMArthur Mensch
Arthur MenschCo-founder and CEO
GLGuillaume Lample
Guillaume LampleCo-founder and Chief Science Officer

Experience

  1. Mistral AICTOcurrent2023 — presentParis, Île-de-France, France
  2. FacebookPhD student2016 — 2023Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
  3. FacebookResearch Engineer2015 — 2023New York City
  4. FacebookSoftware Engineer Intern2014London
  5. CAlab UCSDVisiting undergraduate2013

Skills & more

Algorithms9Machine Learning7Software Engineering5Data Mining1

From Timothée's professional profile.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Timothée Lacroix

Mistral AI, la pépite française de l’intelligence artificielle (Timothée Lacroix) | AIM 2025

La Tribune Événements

Mistral AI: Frontier AI in your hands | Keynote 2 | Timothée Lacroix

AMLD Intelligence Summit

Frequently asked questions

Who is Timothée Lacroix?
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.
Where does Timothée Lacroix work?
Timothée Lacroix is Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI.
What companies did Timothée Lacroix found?
Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI.
Where did Timothée Lacroix go to school?
Timothée Lacroix studied at École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (Computer Science).
What podcasts and interviews feature Timothée Lacroix?
Tracked appearances include "Mistral AI, la pépite française de l’intelligence artificielle (Timothée Lacroix) | AIM 2025", "Mistral AI: Frontier AI in your hands | Keynote 2 | Timothée Lacroix".

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