Nine Cities Chosen for French Tech Start-up Network Scheme

The French government has selected nine cities for its French Tech initiative to strengthen start-up ecosystems and to encourage them to establish a network around the main tech clusters of Paris and the Ile de France region French Tech cities will also benefit from support for inward investment and representation abroad The nine cities are Aix-Marseille Bordeaux Grenoble Lille Lyon Nantes Montpellier Rennes and Toulouse Another five cities applied but did not qualify for the French Tech label in the first round They were Brest Nancy-Metz Nice-Sophia Antipolis Rouen Saint Etienne and Toulon