The Hottest Startups in StockholmCOMING SOONthat Paris’ largest startup campus is 300 meters long—the same size as the Eiffel Tower. Built in an old freight train station, Station F is home to 1,000 early stage startups. Glass-fronted meeting rooms reveal entrepreneurs huddled in meeting rooms or setting up ring lights. Google, Apple, and La French Tech, a government agency, all offer training and advice from their in-house offices here.
In the first three months of the year, France raised $5.4 billion in VC funding, double the amount raised in the same period last year. There has always been tech talent in Paris, says Clara Chappaz, director of La French Tech. “The ecosystem is now really accelerating and we have the means to go much further, to really fuel this talent,” she says.When Tara Heuzé-Sarmini was invited to a job interview at a co-living company targeting professionals in Germany, she had a realization.