Roxanne Varza

director @joinstationf. board @nrjgroup. investor @amoamoamo @lovable_dev @entirehq @beyond_aero @weekendfund @originsVC & more. ex @microsoft @techcrunch

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Turns out, the anti-Euro narratives are *USUALLY* not true 🙌

[etn. @etnshow]

JUST IN: Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch says newest model outperforms Chinese ones on cybersecurity.

"The ⁠narrative that Europe cannot compete is something that ​is not true."

Via Reuters.

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

€250m raised by @joinstationf companies + 4 acquisitions (including the 2nd company acquired by @MistralAI) in September! WHAT A MONTH

[STATION F @joinstationf]

Over €250M raised by STATION F companies last month (up 33% from Sept 2025)!

In addition, we noticed M&A picking up with four acquisitions in a single month - all of them being in AI and Mistral acquired its 2nd company at Station F.

Fundraising last month included:
Profound ($180M Series D raised w Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and others)
Biolevate (Future 40 2025, €30M Series A raised w RAISE, Orange Ventures, MSD Global Health Innovation Fund, EQT Ventures and others)
Arlequin AI (€28M Series A raised w Redalpine, OTB Ventures, Bpifrance's Defence Innovation Fund, Vsquared Ventures and others)
INCEPTO ($16M raised w Impactivist and others)
CURA ($10M raised w Zacua Ventures, Sandpiper Ventures, Amplify Capital, Vantage Futures and others)

And a few smaller rounds, congrats to all for this milestone!

On the M&A side:
Hugging Face acquired by NVIDIA for $12.9B :exploding_head:
Pimento (Future 40 2023) acquired by Mistral AI, Mistral also acquired Koyeb (Future 40 2024) earlier this year
Query Juriste acquired by Lexroom
Mayday acquired by USU Solutions DACH

The companies above participated in Station F programs including Microsoft, LVMH, Havas, Incubateur HEC Paris, Landing Zone and more.

If you are an investor and you'd like to receive our monthly list of fundraising companies, please reach out to investors (at) stationf (dot) co

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@grsl_fr @alvivanco @MistralAI https://t.co/Q48r5Z0oMr

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@alvivanco @grsl_fr @MistralAI Il peut me contacter

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

A random guy in the @eurostar who is not even in tech just got way excited to see a @huggingface sticker on my computer 😅 @ClemDelangue you built something so special

[STATION F @joinstationf]

Batch 2 of F/ai is officially LIVE

26 new AI startups just walked through our doors, and they’ve got some serious backup 👀

Cohere, Notion, Replit and Legora are joining F/ai.

That rounds out 10 new partners for batch 2, alongside ElevenLabs, Nebius, Rippling, OpenRouter, HubSpot and GitHub , who came on board earlier this summer

34 of the biggest names in AI and VC, all in one program!

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@Diwann @tiktok_France OMG good catch!

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Today we are launching a brand new program with @tiktok_France dedicated to Internet Safety
https://t.co/gDFal8WIfY

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Listening to @luke10ferrari tell @jason and @chamath on All In that European work stereotypes are false is 👌👌👌

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

SO PROUD TO HAVE @NotionHQ @NotionFR with us !

[Notion France 🇫🇷 @NotionFR]

On est très heureux de rejoindre F/AI à @joinstationf - le premier AI Program en Europe - en tant que partenaires !
@roxannevarza

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

I literally don't believe that a product can do this. I must try this now! Congrats to @louislecat and team!

[Louis Lecat @louislecat]

Today we're launching Inbox Cleanup, by Upstream

50K+ → 20 EMAILS (in <10 minutes)

An agent that goes through your old email, archives the clutter, and helps you unsubscribe from the newsletters you never read. It cleans up your Gmail the way you would while keeping your data private

Free for any Gmail user → https://t.co/t5FrYELAZd

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@cohere @NotionHQ @Replit @WeAreLegora @HubSpot @github @ElevenLabs @Rippling @OpenRouter @nebiusai are the latest partners to join F/AI at @joinstationf - Europe’s premier AI Program

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Congrats to our friends at @PimentoDesign on the recent acquisition by @MistralAI! This is the second startup from @joinstationf that Mistral has acquired bravo @Flofacq @tomasyany

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Merci @JPFarandou @RolandLescure @MathiasCormann @ALehenanff d'être venus à @joinstationf ce matin pour #impulsionIA

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@alexarnault @Nike 🙌 congrats !!!

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Calling all my founders at @joinstationf and beyond

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: [email protected].

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

@steren Congrats!!

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Congrats @siavashg @kajdro and the whole @stillaai team 🙌

[Siavash @siavashg]

Today, @stillaai is joining @Meta!

Same team, same Stilla, just with the scale to reach many more people.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces.

[Roxanne Varza @roxannevarza]

Do you live in one of these countries? Curious to know what you think got your country in the top 10 on the Pisa listing