For the number 2 to Facebook, Paris is a strategic town of the “tech” – BFMTV.COM

For Facebook, Paris is not a capital like the others. It is one of the places in the world where new technologies have a central place. After having installed in 2015 with its centre of artificial intelligence research, the group from california has decided to continue its investments. This time, accompanying the start-up of Station F, the largest incubator in the world created by Xavier Niel in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

At an event in the presence of Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, Roxanne Varza, director of Station F, and Xavier Niel, the leader of Facebook said that the social network would support a dozen start-ups for a period of six months. They will benefit from the infrastructure, but also the skill of the tenors of Facebook that will help the leaders of these young shoots by their advice. “It is an investment of several million euros,” said Sheryl Sandberg without giving the exact amount of money.

The place of women in the start-up in paris

For that which is today considered to be the 7th woman is the most influential on the planet, Paris has become an essential place for new technologies. In an interview broadcast on BFM Business, she recalled that it was in the French capital that his group had installed its world laboratory for artificial intelligence, whose management has been entrusted to Yann Le Cun. “There’s a lot of French who work for us around the world,” said the leader.

“France is an important country for Facebook with 32 million users every month,” she added to the show Tech&Co. “It is a dynamic country that hosts the largest incubator in the world. This is an amazing opportunity to invest here.”

another French particularity that appeals Sheryl Sandberg, it is the place of women in technology. She also paid a visit to “The Family”, the accelerator co-founded in 2013 by Alice Zagury, which supports 350 businesses. “I found hundreds of women entrepreneurs and I learned that in Paris, 21% of start-ups have been launched by women”. For women the most influential in the world in the world of technologies, this is not a coquetry of the parisian, it is a model to follow.