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"Who uses Claude Code?" 100% of the hands in the room went up. Yes, 100%. Last week, Anthropic's Boris Cherny spoke to the companies taking part in our new F/AI Program. It was an incredible session (he even shared his screen and showed us how he works!). When he asked who uses Claude Code, literally 100% of the hands went up. I don't think I have ever seen this type of product adoption before at STATION F. Ever. Definitely worth paying attention to. You can find more details on the session here https://lnkd.in/emcW29NV

That makes 3 campus unicorns 🤗

Best time on BFM Business ever! Thank you Frédéric Simottel for hosting Laura Modiano and I to talk about the STATION F x OpenAI partnership and … our new program F/AI. A few startup names from the current batch also leaked, including some pretty impressive milestones 🔥 Oh, and half comsidering launching a new tech TV show with Laura. Should we do it? 😜

“Please dont put an exit slide in a seed deck” We want to see more M&A in our ecosystem, so today we are hosting a dedicated M&A session for our STATION F partners and select founders. We had a chance to hear from Oliver Lane (Google), Gabriel Lévy (Datadog - they aquired Station F company Quickwit), Théo D. (Lovable), Julien Codorniou (20vc), Michael Stothard (firstminute), Sophia Martin (Ktiri) (1st kind) and Sarah Drinkwater (Common Magic). We also heard from Station F Future 40 company Koyeb on their recent aquisition by Mistral AI. So much great advice: - don’t only build relationships with m&a teams but the people you’d be working with - feel out teams and build relationships early - but don’t sell too early! - m&a deals take much longer than fundraising deals (acqui-hires are shorter as they require less due diligence) - don’t put an exit slide in a seed deck (strong reactions to this one)😅 - there are different types of acquisitions - for founders the real work starts after the acquisition, not the case for funds - there was an agreement that Europe is less culturally advanced in M&A (And much more ..)

WE ARE HIRING 🔥 The Partners Coordinator will be working with all of our incredible STATION F partners (all those incredible brands you see on campus !) to help them have the best possible experience in supporting their startups. This role is for someone who is a real relationship builder and problem-solver. Must be patient, creative, solid communicator, strong level of English & French, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and very customer-driven. And in return they get to work with some of the best organizations on the planet and build a tier-1 network. Sound like someone you know? Send them our way! Full details here https://lnkd.in/g-6Qifh

Thank you Tánaiste or Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris 🇮🇪 for coming to chat with Topograph, Figen AI and Entalpic today at STATION F! And very excited for your plans for the Irish ecosystem. Thank you Mathieu Galtier, Pierre-Henri Janssens and Vincent Aurez for sharing what you are building 🙏

THIS IS HUGE!! Congrats Koyeb (Future 40 2024) who is now acquired by Mistral AI. This is following some other great AI acquisitions on campus - like Pollen Robotics being acquired by Hugging Face, Mithril Security being acquired by H Company ... and more!

JOIN US for a special Q&A (moderated by Charlie Perreau) with Paris Mayoral frontrunner Emmanuel Grégoire this Friday! And then go vote. Sign up here https://stationf.co/events

February is usually a quieter funding month - except this year was a record, including a new unicorn announced Profound 🙌 We also had a great exit announced as Koyeb (Future 40) became the first startup acquired by Mistral AI.

Last week we hosted a group of 8th graders for their 1-week observation internship. They got a chance to see how the STATION F team and campus works, meeting a wide variety people to understand their jobs and career paths. The last day, I sat down with them to answer their final questions and WOW, I was blown away by the stuff they wanted to know and what they had paid attention to! I also got a chance to see which jobs they found the most interesting and why :)