expected to be working on the product full time, have a prototype or something to show, and already have some users. there is even a green tech meet—up happening here in the midst of the open offices of investors and big tech companies. so, for apps that want to find their place on the app store, well, google�*s over there, apple's over there, so there's help close at hand. and five years in, 41% of the founders based here are female — a very different proportion to that of the wider international tech scene. every single partner programme that we have at station f needs to do its best effort to get females in the applicant pool, not necessarily selecting people because they are female — we actually discourage quotas like that at station f — but we believe that once you have more women as candidates, the conversion rate will be higher. dora founded blazer, a parisian start—up using data