Facebook invests on the French tech – Public Good

The Hexagon would become the paradise for entrepreneurs ? The investment in the “French tech” fight of records, each one of THESE of Las Vegas (1) is similar to landing lights… and now Facebook comes to choose Paris to launch its incubator (2).

Installed in the local Station F – the huge campus on the point of hatching in the east of paris – the “Startup Garage” will offer several young shoots hexagonal expertise of the social network american. The program : coaching, weekly workshops, training, etc., Approximately 80 offices and work spaces will also be made available to them.

For Facebook, which has sent yesterday in Paris, its director Sheryl Sandberg for the usher in, this program represents an investment of several million euros.

” In terms of attractiveness, to be here, this is going to be extraordinary “, said Olivier Binet, impatient to see ” how to the pros of the community like Facebook will be able to help us to develop ours.”

Specializing in car-pooling on short trips, start-up Karos is part of the first five companies selected by the u.s. giant. Eventually, between 10 and 15 young shoots should benefit from the programme, for a period of six months.

tools and spaces for thousand start-up

This is not the first time that the company of Mark Zuckerberg invests in France : in 2015, it had already chosen Paris for his centre of research in artificial intelligence. But this time, Facebook is also part of a larger project : Station F.

Located in the halle Freyssinet, a former freight station near the Library F. Mitterrand, the latter will soon become the largest incubator for start-ups in the world. Open to innovative companies around the world, Station F will accommodate up to a thousand in its 34 000 m2 of collaborative spaces. Equipped with 3 000 work stations in open access, the campus will also host a restaurant with a thousand people, open day and night, an auditorium, a fablab (3)…

The boss of Iliad, Xavier Niel, has put 250 million euros on the table to realize this crazy project is designed to “provide a framework for the ecosystem” start-up “. The opening of the structure, headed by a former technology journalist american of 31 years, Roxanne Varza, is scheduled in April.

1 – Consumer Electronic Show, the largest trade show of electronics in the world.

2 – Structure that support the creation of innovative companies.

3 – fabrication Laboratory