# BNP Paribas (slim)

> BNP Paribas's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Mistral AI and Tink AB (Visa), with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bnp-paribas/index.md (~950 tokens) · this version ~830 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bnp-paribas/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bnp-paribas/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
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Corporate investor.

Website: https://group.bnpparibas

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Mistral AI**, Series B, June 2024, Series D, September 2026, through BNP Paribas CIB, valued at more than €21B post-money, Series D, September 2026
  - [Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md), graded BB, 71.2/100
  - [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-embeddings.md), graded C, 58/100
  - [Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md), graded C, 58.4/100
  - [Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-ocr.md), graded C, 58.8/100
  - [Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md), graded B, 63/100
  - [Mistral Voxtral Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md), graded B, 64.2/100
  - [Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md), graded C, 60.3/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/paris-based-ai-startup-mistral-ai-raises-640-million/
  - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
- **Tink AB (Visa)**, €90M round, January 2020, €85M extension, December 2020, through Opera Tech Ventures, valued at €1.8B, the purchase price, Acquisition by Visa, June 2021
  - [Tink](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.md), graded B, 62.5/100
  - Source: https://tink.com/press/tink-investment-round/

## Where they invest

- Speech-to-text, 2
- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Embeddings & rerankers, 1
- Guardrails & safety filters, 1
- Document parsing & extraction, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1
- Bank data & open banking, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Arthur Mensch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arthur-mensch/), Mistral AI
- [Guillaume Lample](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guillaume-lample/), Mistral AI
- [Timothee Lacroix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/timothee-lacroix/), Mistral AI
- [Daniel Kjellén](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniel-kjellen/), Tink AB (Visa)
- [Fredrik Hedberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/fredrik-hedberg/), Tink AB (Visa)

## Questions

### Which AI tools has BNP Paribas invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Mistral AI and Tink AB (Visa) backed by BNP Paribas.

### How are BNP Paribas's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Mistral AI API (BB, 71.2), Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed (C, 58), Mistral Moderation API (C, 58.4), Mistral OCR API (C, 58.8), Mistral Vibe CLI (B, 63), Mistral Voxtral Transcribe (B, 64.2), Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 (C, 60.3) and Tink (B, 62.5).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.