Events, meetups, and initiatives dedicated to startups proliferate: La French Tech. France digital. Cap Digital. Startups are promoted, celebrated, and receive extensive media coverage.
French startups operate in a variety of sectors. Fintech, foodtech, edtech, healthtech, biotech, you name it. Wine, tourism, luxury goods, art, real estate. Especially promising, thanks to France’s strong reputation in mathematics and engineering, is the so-called deep-tech, encompassing such fields as AI, data science, and machine learning. In February, The Economist commended the trend as ‘the most striking case of fresh growth’.