The Paris tech hub seeking to capture UK talent

Iranian American Roxanne Varza, the boss of Station F, is looking past strikes in her adopted city to offer a refuge for start-ups fleeing Brexit.

Roxanne Varza at Station F, an ambitious tech-hub and start-up incubator in Paris. Roberto Frankenberg

Jan 7, 2020 – 12.00am

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There is, says Roxanne Varza, the 35-year-old Iranian-American who has become one of the most famous faces of French technology, "a pain point" about doing business in her adopted country.

A look to the streets beyond Station F, the funky campus for embryonic tech firms that she runs in south-east Paris (address 5 Alan Turing Sq, no less), gives a strong indication why.

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