The famous social network will install in Station F, Xavier Niel, with the first promotion of young shoots that he accompanies them in their development
Le largest incubator for start-ups in the world, Station F, will not open before next April but the first tenant has signed the lease. Xavier Niel (Free), the holder and financier of the project, and the director Roxanne Varza have struck hard, drawing in the former Halle Freyssinet, in Paris (Xiii) the teams of the famous social network Facebook.
His number two, Sheryl Sandberg, came to announce in person on Tuesday, the installation in Paris (Xiiith) of its first-ever “Startup Garage from Facebook”, a space to support the development of start-up independent.
After you have installed his laboratory on artificial intelligence in Paris, the group of Mark Zuckerberg continues to benefit both the ecosystem dynamics parisian but also of the tax benefits of the research in France and the now famous research tax credit.
A pool of a dozen start-ups
This groundbreaking program “several million euros” will be five start-ups in areas as diverse as e-health (The Fabulous), digital identity (Chekk it), carpooling (Karos), or the management of personal information (OneCub) and collaborative mapping (Mapstr).
They will work around the data certainly from the social network, which has 32 million French users monthly, is enough of a market to develop applications that are global in scope.
in the end, the program sponsored by Facebook will be able to accommodate between 10 and 15 young companies, for a period of six months each.
” This open-space seems to me as comfortable and welcoming as our headquarters in Menlo Park (California). We are proud to be a founding partner of the incubator. We bring our expertise and our teams of mentors to guide the young shoots, ” said Sheryl Sandberg in a short speech in front of an audience of journalists with helmets construction screwed on the skull.
Incubator installed in the halle Freyssinet, a building of former railway in the XIIIe arrondissement of Paris, Station ” F hope to welcome a thousand of start-ups, particularly through programs offered by partners of the incubator, among which Facebook, for Sale-Private, TechShop, HEC Paris or various investment funds.
The site, funded to the tune of 250 million euros by Xavier Niel, will include an area dedicated to start-ups with 3,000 work stations, event space, including an auditorium, and a restaurant with 1000 seats open to the public 24 hours on 24.
A parisian neighborhood full mutation
Located on the boulevard Auriol, near metro line 6, Station ” F ” goes without any doubt to its opening in April to change the appearance of the neighborhood in particular, with its catering service open 24h/24.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced that the streets adjacent to the old Halle Freyssinet will be renamed to the names of women who have been important in the development of the computer as Grace Hopper or Ada Lovelace.
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