Station F is a 34,000 m² startup campus in a converted rail freight hall in Paris, designed to host over a thousand early-stage companies under one roof. In this video, international partnerships lead Joanna explains how the campus model goes beyond a classic incubator by combining workspace, programs and on-site services so founders can progress from idea to scale in the same place. The conversation focuses on how Station F structures support, from admission into thematic tracks to hands-on help with fundraising, go-to-market and global reach. https://stationf.co/
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Joanna describes Station F as a layered campus: around 30 acceleration programs run by corporates, universities, startup associations and public actors sit alongside shared mentorship offices and a dense calendar of roughly 600 events per year. These range from expert office hours and investor days to technical workshops, giving founders frequent touchpoints with the wider European tech and venture capital ecosystem. In its first five years, Station F has supported thousands of startups that collectively raised several billion euros and created tens of thousands of jobs, which anchors the campus as a central node in French and European tech. The campus also concentrates resources like investors, public services, a fab lab and 3D printing so teams can focus on iterating product and talking to users rather than fighting operational debt.
From her role on the international side, Joanna highlights how Station F curates global cohorts: at the time of Web Summit 2025, startups from South Korea, Japan and India are on campus, and eight of them are showcased on the Lisbon booth each day. For founders, conferences like Web Summit are treated as extensions of the campus, where they can meet corporate innovation teams, country delegations and potential channel partners in a few days instead of months. The video underlines how this international circulation of teams and mentors is key for French and foreign startups that want to scale quickly outside their home market.
The discussion also traces Station F back to its founder, Xavier Niel, the telecom entrepreneur behind Free, the 42 coding schools and seed fund Kima Ventures, who invested heavily to turn Halle Freyssinet into a large-scale hub for startups. Joanna notes that the average founder age on campus is 30–35 and many are already parents, countering the cliché of startups built only by very young people in garages. By concentrating peers at similar stages and giving them daily opportunities to meet, the campus naturally supports co-founder matching, hiring and even new ventures when an initial project does not work out.
Towards the end, the conversation turns to AI for coding and how tools such as Lovable are already changing the speed at which Station F startups can prototype and ship software. Joanna stresses that the campus seeks early partnerships with such AI-first developer platforms so residents can access credits, APIs and best practices as part of their program journey, alongside existing collaborations with partners like Meta. Filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, the video ultimately shows Station F as an operating system for founders, where physical infrastructure, community, capital and AI-powered tooling are tightly integrated to reduce time from idea to product–market fit.
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