Roxanne Varza

Silicon Republic’s Elaine Burke sat down with Station F director Roxanne Varza while she was visiting Dublin, to discuss the plans for a huge start-up city about to open in Paris.
Station F, the world’s biggest start-up campus, opened with enough space to house the Eiffel Tower in July 2017, offering start-ups an ecosystem in which to incubate, connect and grow.

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In the middle of Paris's 13th arrondissement, a few blocks away from the banks of the Seine, stands a former railway depot. It used to be known as La Halle Freyssinet; today it's simply Station F. And it's the world's biggest startup campus, housing 1,000 companies within 34,000 square meters. To put that in Parisian perspective, it's the size of the Eiffel tower lying down. We spoke with Roxanne Varza, the director of Station F, to get a sense of what's been happening since the campus opened in June 2017.

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