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Top 25 Startup ecosystem platforms based in France
RevenueBase identified 262 startup ecosystem platforms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 2,488 professional contacts across them, including 399 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers startup ecosystem platforms headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest startup ecosystem platforms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STATION F is the world's biggest startup campus based in Paris, gathering a whole entrepreneurial ecosystem under one roof.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “50 Partners is a leading startup accelerator in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plus de 400 entreprises ont été créé en France avec l'aide du réseau BGE depuis plus de 45 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au sein de Groupe Mentor, nous envisageons un monde entrepreneurial où l'innovation et la croissance durable sont stimulées par un mentorat personnalisé et tourné vers l'avenir.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Un environnement qui encourage l’épanouissement et favorise la réussite.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nous sommes une plateforme de croissance collaborative nouvelle génération.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Initiative Pays d'Aix accompagne les créateurs et repreneurs d'entreprises dans leurs démarches et peut faciliter l’obtention des financements nécessaires à la réalisation de leur…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bpifrance Le Hub est le partenaire opérationnel des startups et scaleups investies par les fonds d’investissement innovation en capital risque de Bpifrance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “emlyon venture labs accompagne les entrepreneurs et intrapreneurs ambitieux de l'idée à l'hyper-croissance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cosens vous accompagne durant votre parcours entrepreneurial pour tester votre projet en toute sécurité, développer votre réseau et booster votre chiffre d’affaires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quai Alpha : incubateur d'innovations, booster de visibilité!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Premier réseau de business angels dédié au financement de jeunes entreprises stratégiques.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plus de 400 entreprises ont été créées en France avec l'aide du réseau BGE depuis plus de 40 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reveal (now Crossbeam) is the Ecosystem-Led Growth platform for go-to-market teams to generate revenue through their partner ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rise Partners est un cabinet qui conseille et finance les entreprises en mobilisant une équipe d'experts, de partenaires et de financeurs, autour d'une méthodologie orientée…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'Accélérateur M est une incubateur/accélérateur de jeunes entreprises innovantes (startups) permettant de structurer et d'accélérer leur développement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2016, Angelsquare accompagne les meilleurs entrepreneurs dans leurs opérations stratégiques, de la première levée de fonds à la cession de leur entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avalon est la cantine du travail de proximité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Un réseau engagé et solidaire de Startupers et d’Entrepreneurs de la Tech pour accompagner et financer les premiers pas des Startups de l’ouest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “https://startup.info is the first collaborative magazine dedicated to the promotion of startups with more than 200 unique visitors per month.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Finple, filiale du Groupe Consultim, est une plateforme de crowdfunding qui rapproche les investisseurs des entrepreneurs à travers une proposition de valeur qui allie la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Incubateur et accélérateur de startups B2B depuis 2001 dont la mission est de transformer le plus grand nombre de projets innovants et prometteurs en entreprises pérennes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Réseau Entreprendre Var est un réseau unique d’entraide entrepreneuriale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il n’est jamais trop tard pour devenir ce que vous auriez pu être » - George Eliot 🤩 Devenir entrepreneur!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: startup ecosystem platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names startup ecosystem platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of startup ecosystem platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name startup ecosystem platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Startup ecosystem platforms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 262 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among startup ecosystem platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “startup ecosystem platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names startup ecosystem platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among startup ecosystem platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 399 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names startup ecosystem platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many startup ecosystem platforms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 262 startup ecosystem platforms headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Station F, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most startup ecosystem platforms?
Paris leads with 84 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (8) and Bordeaux (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 399 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 262 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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