SporTech: "Our companies will become a safe haven for financiers after Paris 2024" (J. D'Arrigo)

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Jacques D'Arrigo, president of French start-up collective SporTech - ©  D.R.

"SporTech will become a safe haven after the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Our companies have shared values linked to sport, with rules, respect, gender diversity and openness, not to mention the sport-health dimension. Financiers will be coming to us more and more. The recent arrival of new funds such as SLAM is proof of this. I hope that, in the years to come, French SporTech companies will grow so much that it will no longer be American or Qatari companies that buy French clubs, but French companies," said Jacques D’Arrigo, president of SporTech, a collective of French start-ups, to News Tank football on 12/07/2024.

"Outside the French market, we want to structure our position as European leader. We have more and more contacts with Belgians, Italians, Spaniards and others. Many countries are following the French dynamic, and we could play a leading role. In fact, some of our events are open to foreign companies based in France," added the man who is also co-founder of the Footbar start-up.

"Partners who already exist in the world of sport, such as those at the Olympic…

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Jacques D'Arrigo, president of French start-up collective SporTech - ©  D.R.

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