20VC: Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN, Mistral's €3BN Round, Miro Sells for $1.35BN
20VC · rss · 2026-09-17
The latest 20VC episode covers a packed week in AI and tech:
- Funding: Instinct raising $1BN at a $10BN valuation; Mistral's €3BN round, Europe's largest-ever tech raise; Miro selling for $1.35BN, far below its $17.5BN peak valuation.
- Products & strategy: Meta launching Muse to take on Instinct; the host argues "pacing the frontier" (echoing Dario Amodei's call) is BS, plus a segment on the Fed raiding Anthropic if needed.
- Other topics: whether Sam Bankman-Fried could win his freedom; WordPress's power struggle with Matt Mullenweg ousted then returning; Adobe's new CEO and Canva's slowing growth pressuring SaaS giants.
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