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Our Paris office opened its doors in 2018 to welcome impactful and ambitious individuals based in France.

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Located within Station F, the world’s biggest startup campus, our Paris cohorts bring together exceptional people to build globally important companies.

Building across a variety of sectors including industry 4.0, retail and healthcare, our Paris companies have gained huge amounts of traction in a short amount of time.

Companies built through our Paris cohorts include PacketAI, who raised €2.1M in seed funding for their IT incident prediction solution; Fairbrics, who are creating carbon negative materials for the fashion industry by converting harmful CO2 into fabrics; and Flowlity, an AI-powered supply chain planning solution who recently signed La Redoute as a customer.

Companies

Our Parisian alumni are building across different industries and technologies.

Our teams’ innovations include combining cell culture and AI to tackle infertility; providing carbon negative fabrics for the fashion industry; democratising 3D animation; and using synthetic biology to create air-purifying plants.

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Featured Companies

ImVitro
We combine the power of cell culture and AI to tackle infertility.
Seed Healthcare
Flowlity
Building the world's first cognitive supply chain network
Seed Transportation/Logistics
Fairbrics
Fairbrics provide carbon negative fabrics for the fashion industry
Seed Manufacturing/Industrial
Omini
Making blood tests 100x faster and 100x simpler
Seed Healthcare
PacketAI
PacketAI uses AI to automate IT Operations
Seed Infrastructure/Development Tools
Kinetix
Democratising 3D animation by making it faster and more accessible for all creative minds.
Seed Media/Entertainment
Our community

We’ve welcomed founders from a huge variety of professional and academic backgrounds to apply their unique insight.

You’ll meet a pool of impressive people like Henri, who graduated from CentraleSupelec aged just 20, and Joanne, an expert in the manipulation of biological molecules.

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The Paris team

Support from expert advisors and mentors

Our in-house team and venture partners bring with them a wealth of startup knowledge and experience to push our founders and their company to excellence.

Coralie Chaufour

General Manager, Paris
Engagement Manager at McKinsey and corporate lawyer, graduated from Harvard and Sciences Po

Thomas Poitrineau

Manager, Paris
Leads company creation process, experienced launching and managing businesses

Nicolas Douay

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First
Exited co-founder of KelDoc, angel investor

Rob Bishop

Founder, Magic Pony Technology
Investor and ex-cohort member at Entrepreneur First
“In less than two months, I felt I’d reached out and I’d done something much faster than what I’d done in all my academic years, which have given me my background, but didn’t give me this freedom of saying that I can do whatever I want in this world and leave a mark.”
Joanne Kanaan CEO, Omini
Life on the programme

"They help you to be able to focus on what matters."

Hubert, CEO of Leakmited which he founded through our programme, shares the value of the EF team.

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Paris FAQs

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Which investors have invested in EF Paris companies at seed stage?
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Over the past 2 years, startups created during the EF Paris programme have received investment from VC funds based in France, but also in the US, in the UK and in other EU member states such as Germany or Austria. For instance, Elaia invested in QantEv, XAnge invested in Core Biogenesis and 42CAP invested in Flowlity. Other startups, such as Omini, have received investment from a consortium of business angels.

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Do I need to be able to speak a particular language?
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The programme is run in English, and is the common language used by participants amongst each other. Therefore, you will need to be comfortable speaking and working in English.

You therefore do not need to be able to speak French in order to take part – however, it’s always helpful to have some proficiency as you’ll be living and working in Paris for the duration of the programme.

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Can I get a visa to take part?
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We are able to connect offer holders for our Paris programme with immigration specialists who can support in your relocation and provide you with the visa options based on your personal circumstances.

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How does financial support during Form work in Paris?
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Entrepreneur First funds you as an individual from Day 1, and if you form a company, we are your first investor. To start we will pay you €2,000 a month for 3 months during Form. If you leave Entrepreneur First at the end of Form or Launch the stipend is yours to keep.

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How does investment during Launch work?
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If your company is offered a place on Launch we invest £80,000 in Paris in return for a 10% equity stake in your company.