Exclusive: Make has established a mentorship office at STATION F.

      The visual automation platform owned by Celonis, which already includes over 200 startups from STATION F in its programme, is establishing a permanent presence on campus in Paris, aiming to position France as a key market for growth. The offerings include one-on-one mentorship, workshops, and opportunities to participate in hackathons.

      Make, the platform for visual automation and AI agents under the ownership of process mining leader Celonis, has launched a Mentorship Office at STATION F, the Paris startup campus claimed to be the largest in the world. This initiative provides Make with a consistent physical presence in a facility that hosts over 1,000 early-stage companies, highlighting France as a priority market for the Czech-based platform as it navigates the increasingly competitive no-code automation sector.

      Previously branded as Integromat, Make is a visual-first platform that enables teams to create automated workflows and AI agents without coding, linking applications, services, and data pipelines through a simple drag-and-drop interface. Under the leadership of CEO Fabian Q. Veit, the company has expanded to over 400,000 paying customers and is nearing €100 million in annual recurring revenue, as stated by Veit. The platform competes with Zapier, n8n, and Microsoft Power Automate in the no-code workflow market.

      “Europe’s startup ecosystem is cultivating exceptional founders who deserve top-notch tools. By integrating into STATION F, we are placing Make directly in the hands of the teams that require automation urgently—ambitious teams achieving great things on limited budgets,” commented Fabian Q. Veit.

      The Mentorship Office format at STATION F is well-established, with companies like Apple, AWS, Google, OVHcloud, Twilio, and Snowflake having hosted similar on-campus facilities, offering office hours, workshops, and direct access to their teams for the campus's founding community.

      Make’s initiative will offer one-on-one mentorship sessions to assist startups in pinpointing automation opportunities, workshops that cover everything from onboarding to scaling complex operations, access to STATION F hackathons and networking events, and direct interactions with founders and partners throughout the campus ecosystem.

      Over 200 startups at STATION F have already signed up for Make’s existing Startup Programme, indicating a strong demand for the platform even before the official office opening.

      Since its inception in 2017, STATION F, located in a refurbished railway depot in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, has supported more than 8,000 startups and hosts around 50 new companies monthly. The campus runs over 30 support programmes, connects founders with a network of over 600 investors, and conducts more than 600 events annually, with startups on campus collectively raising over €1 billion each year.

      France has become one of Europe’s prominent startup ecosystems, with Paris startups securing over €1.3 billion in AI funding in 2024 alone, which accounts for roughly half of the total European AI investment that year.

      For Make, the strategic reasoning is clear: early-stage startups are quick adopters of automation tools due to their need to work with limited resources and their inability to hire staff to automate repetitive processes manually. Embedding itself at STATION F allows the company to engage with founders at the crucial moment when they are making initial infrastructure decisions, before they establish habits and vendor preferences.