Each year at STATION F, we select a dozen high-potential female-founded startups to participate in the Female Founders Fellowship (FFF). Through this program, we empower these founders to become leading female role models both within and outside campus. These women are selected because they are business leaders in their field.

Diversity has always been part of our DNA at STATION F. Which is why we are incredibly proud to have 41% of our teams on campus with at least 1 female in the founding team. We are also incredibly proud to have supported many women entrepreneurs in the French ecosystem. This past year, STATION F alumni Julie Chapon (CEO of Yuka) was given the National Order of Merit - and she decided to have the ceremony at STATION F with our Founder, Xavier Niel.

Julie Chapon and our founder Xavier Niel when she received the Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite at STATION F, on September 1st 2023

This is the 4th edition of the Female Founders Fellowship, meaning that we have highlighted over 60 female founders to date. While many people often struggle to find women leaders in certain sectors, our founders have covered them all: space tech, crypto and web3, AI, construction, fintech and more. So next time someone says they can’t name a female founder for a certain industry, consider taking a look at the names selected for the Female Founders Fellowship. The selection for 2024 is diverse, including AI, BioTech, MedTech, and DeepTech, proving that women have their place in all sectors.

Here are the women selected for the 2024 batch:

Cécile Delerablée, Cofounder & CEO Leanear (Thalès Program)

With over 15 years of experience as a security expert and researcher, Cécile obtained her PhD in Cryptography from ENS (Paris) while working at Orange. Leanear aims to develop innovative solutions that allow companies to maintain control of their data while also taking advantage of the benefits offered by cloud computing.

Elena Bunel, Cofounder & COO Abundant Earth (IPP Télécom Paris Program)

Elena is the cofounder and COO of Abundant Earth. She is an HEC Montreal graduate and she spent 15 years in 5 countries, working for big corporations in various sectors before shifting to sustainability and climate roles 6 years ago. Abundant Earth combines cutting edge science with satellite, drone, and on-ground data to help companies identify and invest in nature-positive projects. The startup has received initial validations of its scientific methodology.

Emilie Reynaud, CEO Flushy (Fighters Program 2.0 & EDHEC Program)

Emilie is the founder of Flushy. She embarked on entrepreneurship after completing her studies, spending a year in Ireland before pursuing a master's degree in entrepreneurship in Lyon, France. With Flushy, her goal is to offer eco-friendly household products made with fruits saved from waste, aiming to democratize ecological actions and make them more accessible in daily life. The launch of the B2B offers to help corporate offices easily adopt eco-friendly practices.

Soline Kauffmann, Cofounder & CEO Agōra AI (Entrepreneur First Program)

Soline has dedicated the past decade to work at the intersection of sustainability, finance, and technology, serving as a co-founder, startup operator, and head of sustainability in VC funds. The purpose of Agōra AI is helping large water users accelerate their transition towards water sobriety through data. Thanks to its first product, Agōra AI gives industrial players and municipalities full visibility in real time on water consumption and availability around any aquifer.

Pamela Carvallo, Cofounder & CTO Qlip (Founders Program)

Pamela is a repeat founder specialized in Machine Learning. With a background of over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, she holds a master's degree in electronics and signal processing and a PhD in Machine Learning. She previously co-founded a company in Big Data. Qlip AI is an all-in-one NLP and Computer Vision as-a-service platform. Their APIs provide the automatic highlights detection, processing, rendering, framing and styling of video/audio files. No training data or NLP/ML knowledge are required.

Rata Jacquemart, CEO Differs (21st by CentraleSupélec Program)

Rata is originally from Thailand and was previously at Dataiku before deciding to launch her own company. At Differs, they are democratizing AI-driven customer behavior prediction for all retailers. Their innovative SaaS solutions provide predictive insights once exclusive to industry giants like Amazon. Their sportswear apparel clients got +50% margin on their permanent collections and +126% volume on their end-of-season products. Differs was also selected for the STATION F Future 40 in 2023.

Ellen Kelly, Cofounder & CEO Savvy (Founders Program)

Ellen is an Irish entrepreneur who studied International Business at university and worked in banking, where she became interested in Sustainable Finance. She holds a CFA certificate in Sustainable Investing and worked as an ESG Portfolio Manager in Fixed Income. Now with Savvy, she’s building an integrated sustainable investing platform for banks to allow their customers to invest in line with their sustainable values.

Sixtine Naquet-Radiguet, Cofounder & CTO / CPO Kolverr (Founders Program)

An engineer from the École Centrale Paris, Sixtine has worked in the tech and innovation sector for over 10 years. In 2016, she co-founded Possible Future, a BCorp startup studio acquired by CapGemini in 2021. Her meeting with Stanislas and Florent in early 2023 directly led to the creation of Kolverr. Kolverr helps skilled workers join the green-collar workforce, by reinventing remote training for field jobs (construction, energy, mobility). At Kolverr, Sixtine is responsible for tech, data, and AI. Kolverr was also selected for the STATION F Future 40 in 2023.

Elise Mekkaoui, Cofounder & CPO Matricis.ai (212 Founders Program)

Elise is like a Swiss Army knife. She initially studied mathematics, then delved into business and finance. Later on, she pursued studies in law and economics to prepare for French administrative exams. Now she’s the cofounder and CTO / CPO of Matricis.ai and she aims to contribute to the reduction of the gender health gap. At Matricis.ai, they have chosen to focus specifically on diagnostics, considering it as the primary barrier that, once addressed, will pave the way for improvement in other aspects of patient care, particularly treatments. They are creating the first annotated database of gynecological imagery.

Iris Maréchal, Cofounder & CEO Theremia (Entrepreneur First Program)

Iris has a background in business and mathematics from HEC and Pierre and Marie Curie University. She has worked extensively on public health issues, focusing on the impact of the opioid crisis on different demographics in the USA. She founded the Observatoire des Violences Sexuelles et Sexistes dans l'Enseignement Supérieur, a national non-profit organization, which now has around 80 members across France. The goal of Theremia is leveraging AI to build the future of inclusive healthcare. The company is preparing for its first Seed funding round, seeking proactive Business Angels and Venture Capitalists to help transition its MVP algorithm into a comprehensive commercial solution.

Roni Gamzon, Cofounder & CTO / CPO Biofluff (La Maison des Start-up by LVMH)

Roni is a 4th generation entrepreneur. In 2022, she came to VivaTech to explore the world of fashion tech, which has been her passion. She met her co-founder there and was introduced to and fell in love with the Paris fashion tech world. At Biofluff, she’s creating the world's first completely plant based fur as an alternative to animal materials and synthetic faux-furs. They have exhibited their solution with Stella McCartney at Cop28 (UN Global Summit for climate change).

Yanjun Jessica Michen, Cofounder & COO Grasp (L'Oréal Program)

After earning her Master's degree in Marketing from HEC Paris in 2014, Jessica dedicated the next decade to digital marketing and AdTech roles in Paris and New York, specializing in driving growth for B2B AdTech firms. In late 2020, she co-founded Grasp, assuming the role of COO and guiding the startup to remarkable success. A fully bootstrapped, highly profitable and multi-million dollar business, Grasp was successfully acquired by MiQ in November 2023, less than 3 years since Grasp was founded.

Héloïse Rozès, Cofounder & CEO Corma (HEC Paris Program)

Héloïse is a biomedical engineer from Imperial College London with a knack for programming. She founded societies, led international debates, and kept strong connections with academia and entrepreneurs since then. Corma builds a solution that unifies all different data silos around software usage to allow operations to navigate through the SaaS sprawl. With their unique data, they leverage AI to provide managers with actionable software analytics to continuously improve the software stack. The Corma product is now deployed in 30 companies just a little month after its first fully custom product deployment.

To learn more about our Female Founders Fellowship, please reach out to press@stationf.co

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