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tajen · on July 20, 2015

Do we even have €10M+ startups in France? Besides Gemalto which is 30 years old.

There's just no way we could create an Apple in France. It's too agressive, therefore we would forbid it.

throwaway41597 · on July 20, 2015

Iliad is a €10B telco started about 20 years ago by a twenty-something. There was Business Objects which sold for some billions circa 2000. Criteo started in the 2000s and is worth billions. In tech, there are also DailyMotion, Deezer, BlaBlaCar, Withings and Sigfox in the €100M+ range.

YC certainly fares better in a decade than France in 30 years. But you shouldn't be self-deprecating, or you may start to believe it's impossible to start a startup in France. When there's a will, there's a way.

Anyhow, we're getting off-topic.

ethnomusicolog · on July 20, 2015

I think algolia might count soon given their last funding round.

dthal · on July 20, 2015

Does Criteo count? Yahoo finance says its market cap is 3.3B[1].

[1]http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRTO