World's biggest startup incubator opens in Paris
Paris
PARIS took a step closer to fulfilling its ambition of becoming Europe's technology capital on Thursday when President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated Station F, the world's largest startup incubator on the banks of the Seine.
The 34,000 square metre facility, which entirely fills an old railway depot, is being bankrolled by billionaire Xavier Niel, who revolutionised the French Internet and mobile market with his low-cost Free service and is now on a crusade to put French technology on the map.
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