START-UP SUCCESS STORIES
DOCTOLIB Set up five years ago, Doctolib is the largest digital health start-up in Europe and recently became one of France’s unicorns after securing an additional €150 million funding in a round led by General Atlantic. The medical appointment service connects patients and healthcare professionals, with 30 million monthly online visits.
doctolib.fr
MEERO Founded in 2016, this is a platform for freelance photographers to offer their services. Companies can source photographers and get professional images within 24 hours. The platform has 58,000 members and joined the unicorn community earlier this year.
meero.com
ALAN This start-up is the first licensed digital health insurance company in France since 1986. It aims to provide more transparent services and help its user base of 27,000 to find and book doctors.
alan.com
DEEZER France’s music streaming service allows people to listen to more than 56 million songs online and offline. Active in more than 180 countries, with 14 million users, it became a unicorn last year.
deezer.com
BLABLACAR Launched in Paris back in 2006, this carpooling platform connects people heading in the same direction, saving costs and carbon fuel. The
THE FEMALE FACTOR Troughout the city, there is also a strong focus on promoting women in tech, given that globally only 14.1 per cent of tech founders are women, according to Startup Genome. An Ipsos survey for Viva Technology found that 63 per cent of young women expressed interest in working for a start-up, only 1 per cent less than men. For this year’s conference, Ranty implemented a quota so that 40 per cent of speakers were women, while a “Female Founder Challenge” event comprised meetings between venture capital firms and female-led start-ups, and a pitch contest. Some 45 per cent of Station F’s companies are female-founded, while the campus is run by director Roxanne Varza. Last month, Station F held an all-female conference, and has banned all-male panels on campus.
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ABOVE: La Felicità food court in Station F; the Viva Technology conference takes place each year
unicorn now has a community of 80 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries, and recently launched BlaBlaBus in five European countries.
blablacar.co.uk
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