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Campus Warsaw
Campus Warsaw is Google for Startups' flagship hub for Central and Eastern Europe, opened in 2015 inside the historic Koneser Centre at Plac Konesera 10 in Warsaw's Praga district. The venue occupies a revitalized 19th-century vodka distillery complex and serves as the primary gathering point for Google's regional startup programs. Access is restricted to Google for Startups alumni and resident startup community members on weekdays; the 200-seat auditorium and 36-seat classroom open to the public during curated events. Campus Warsaw runs Founders at Campus residencies — structured cohorts providing dedicated workspace, mentorship, and access to Google product experts — alongside Google for Startups Accelerator Poland, which selects early- and growth-stage companies for equity-free intensive programs. The Praga location positions Campus outside Warsaw's central business district, embedding it in a rapidly gentrifying creative and tech neighbourhood that also hosts the Koneser Building M location of Spaces coworking. As the only Google for Startups Campus in the CEE region, the Warsaw node anchors a network that connects local founders with Google's global mentor pool, cloud credits, and product integrations. Several international investors use Campus events for deal sourcing when visiting Warsaw.
French Tech 2030 / Next40 / FT120
French Tech Next40/120 is a French government program run by the Mission French Tech that identifies and supports the 120 highest-performing French scale-ups each year. The Next40 cohort (the top 40) is selected based on revenue growth above €100 million or the largest fundraising volumes, while the broader FT120 requires at least €20 million in revenue with 15% annual growth. Selected companies receive prioritized access to public services, international promotion, and regulatory support to help them compete globally.
La French Tech
La French Tech is the French government's flagship brand and support initiative for the national startup ecosystem, launched in 2013 by the Ministry of the Economy. It operates as a unified banner under which French startups present themselves internationally, and coordinates a network of over 50 local French Tech communities (called 'Capitales') across France and in major cities worldwide. La French Tech administers the French Tech Visa program for international founders, the French Tech Tremplin program supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs, and the high-profile Next40/FT120 scale-up labels. The initiative has been instrumental in transforming France's global image from a bureaucratic economy to one of Europe's most dynamic startup nations, and its branding is ubiquitous at international tech events from CES to VivaTech.
Reaktor Warsaw
Reaktor Warsaw is one of the city's longest-running independent startup coworking communities, established in the early 2010s in the Mokotów district and closely associated with the emergence of Warsaw's first generation of tech founders. The space was a formative environment for Borys Musielak, co-founder of SMOK Ventures and a central figure in the local angel network, and has served as an informal gathering point for early-stage Polish SaaS and mobile founders. Reaktor Warsaw operates with a community-first membership model rather than a serviced-office approach: members are expected to contribute to ecosystem events, mentoring sessions, and peer knowledge-sharing rather than simply renting desk space. The programme arm ReaktorX ran a remote-first pre-acceleration track for first-time founders, helping validate ideas and connect teams with early-stage capital. The space occupies a compact floor in a Mokotów office building, with capacity suited to a curated resident cohort rather than open-plan hot-desking. Pricing sits at a mid-range tier compared with premium corporate coworking chains in Warsaw's Wola CBD. Reaktor has been instrumental in cross-pollinating Warsaw's early developer and product communities and contributed to the culture of peer mentoring that now characterises the wider Polish startup ecosystem.
StarterKitchen
StarterKitchen is the primary coworking and founder community venue operated by the non-profit Campus Business Box e.V. under the opencampus.sh umbrella, located at Kuhnkestraße 6 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district. The space spans 400 square metres and has been awarded best coworking space in Kiel, attracting interdisciplinary founders across tech, social enterprise, and creative sectors. The floor plan combines a large bright open-plan coworking area (referred to internally as the Sauna) with dedicated fixed desks, enclosed team offices, a Zoom-equipped call room, and a podcast studio — the latter two included in all membership tiers. Flex-desk memberships range from €20 per month for students and Schleswig-Holstein scholarship holders through €70–90 for growth-stage teams; fixed desk slots run €90–120 per month for established ventures. Pricing is deliberately below-market to remain accessible to early-stage founders. StarterKitchen serves as the first point of contact in Kiel for the regional Gründungsstipendium SH founding grant and hosts recurring formats including the Female Founders Stammtisch, open founder breakfasts, and the Prototypingweek innovation sprint. The space is closely integrated with the Waterkant Festival, opencampus.sh's annual futures-thinking event that draws several thousand attendees to Kiel. Pricing tier: €.
