It feels fitting that 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. Station F embodies the success of the support network France has built around its startups, which are now starting to attract significant funding.
In the first three months of the year, France raised $5.4 billion (around €5.3 billion) in VC funding, double the
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