If you are looking at incubating a start up and not sure where to base you start up at Europe, look twice at France. France is the second largest VC market in Europe after the UK. If you take Scandinavia to be a single market then France comes in at 3rd place .
In France the government plays a very active role, at the national level, and it includes start up as a priority with a cohesive policy (40 measures). These include a fiscal tax freeze for all start ups
France gov recently created crowdfunding law allowing startups to raise up to €1 million and govt incentives to lauch start ups with grant of €30,000 to launch a new venture;
In France the government plays a very active role, at the national level, and it includes start up as a priority with a cohesive policy (40 measures). These include a fiscal tax freeze for all start ups
France gov recently created crowdfunding law allowing startups to raise up to €1 million and govt incentives to lauch start ups with grant of €30,000 to launch a new venture;
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In 2015 France received VC and PE worth more than 2.4 billion Euro through 371 VC deals.The country accounted for 2.1% of total global VC investment and represented 3% global VC deals
France also scores well in terms of " doing business".In 2014, only 4.5 days were required to found a company in rance, versus 6 in the UK and 14.5 in Germany (Doing Business, World Bank)Among some of the French Govt incentives has been creation of
1) a €200 million French Tech Acceleration fund for Startup accelerator program;
2)€500 million “Large Venture” fund for venture capital
3)€600 million of Regional Innovation Subsidies and another €600 million for the European Innovation Grants
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