The Celonis-owned visual automation platform, which already has more than 200 STATION F startups on its programme, is putting a permanent on-campus presence in Paris as it targets France as a strategic growth market. One-on-onementorship, workshops, and hackathon participation are all part of the offer.
Make, the visual automation and AI agents platform owned by process mining giant Celonis, has opened a MentorshipOffice at STATION F, the Paris startup campus that describes itself as the world’s largest.
The move gives Make a permanent physical presence at a campus hosting more than 1,000 early-stage companies at any given time, and signals France as a priority market for the Czech-headquartered platform as it competes in an increasingly crowded no-code automation space.
Make, originally known as Integromat before a rebrand, is a visual-first platform that lets teams build automated workflows and AI agents without writing code, connecting apps, services, and data pipelines through a drag-and-drop interface.
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Under CEO Fabian Q. Veit, the company has grown to more than 400.000 paying customers and is approaching €100 million in annual recurring revenue, according to public statements by Veit. The platform competes with Zapier, n8n, and Microsoft Power Automate in the no-code workflow space.
“Europe’s startup ecosystem is producing world-class founders, and they deserve world-class tools. By joining STATION F, we’re putting Make directly in the hands of the teams that need automation the most, ambitious teams doing big things with limited resources,” said Fabian Q. Veit.
The Mentorship Office format at STATION F is well established: Apple, AWS, Google, OVHcloud, Twilio, Snowflake, and others have all run similar on-campus spaces, offering office hours, workshops, and direct access to their teams for the campus’ founder community.
Make’s version will provide one-on-one mentorship sessions to help startups identify automation opportunities, workshops covering everything from onboarding to scaling complex operations, participation in STATION F hackathons and networking events, and direct engagement with founders and partners across the campus ecosystem.
More than 200 STATION F startups have already enrolled in Make’s existing Startup Programme, suggesting genuine demand for the platform on campus ahead of the formal office opening.
STATION F, which opened in 2017 in a converted railway depot in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, has supported more than 8,000 startups since launch and hosts roughly 50 new companies per month.
The campus runs more than 30 support programmes, connects founders with a network of more than 600 investors, and stages more than 600 events each year. Startups on campus collectively raise more than €1 billion per year.
France has emerged as one of Europe’s leading startup ecosystems: Paris startups raised over €1.3 billion in AI funding in 2024 alone, roughly half of all European AI investment that year.
For Make, the strategic rationale is straightforward: early-stage startups are high-velocity adopters of automation tools, precisely because they need to operate with limited resources and cannot afford the headcount to replace repeatable processes manually.
Embedding directly at STATION F positions the company at the moment founders are making their first infrastructure decisions, before habits and vendor loyalties are established.
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