The Paris start-up campus is working with the world’s biggest tech companies to support early-stage AI start-ups
Station F start-up campus in Paris. Photo credits: Patrick Tourneboeuf
Paris start-up campus Station F has announced the launch of a new programme supporting early-stage AI start-ups with high growth potential, in partnership with tech companies including Meta, Google and OpenAI, as well as venture capital firms.
The F/ai programme is highly competitive, aimed at start-ups with the potential to reach €1 million in revenue within six months, with selection based on recommendations from partner organisations rather than open applications.
“We are creating the conditions for AI founders to build globally competitive companies from Europe,” said Roxanne Varza, director of Station F. “Europe’s future in AI depends not only on excellence in research, but on our ability to execute, commercialise and scale. F/ai is designed to do exactly that.”
The programme will run twice a year. The first cohort of 20 companies joined in January and will take…
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