# GS Group

> GS Group is a VC fund in Saint Petersburg backing Video, AgTech and Publishing. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-satellite
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gsgroup_eng
- Website: http://en.gs-group.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gsgroup.ru

GS Group is an international investment and industry holding, operating on the basis of its own high technologies in telecommunications.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 1 | 33% |
| AgTech | 1 | 33% |
| Publishing | 1 | 33% |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 33% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Finland | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boston Materials | Boston Materials manufactures Z-axis Carbon Fiber products that can revolutionize the $130B+ lightweight materials market and unlock significant GHG emissions reductions across industries. Boston Materials products add new conductivity, stiffness, and durability benefits to existing composite materials, like carbon fiber, and sheet metals. Thecompany's products are made using 100 percent reclaimed carbon fiber enabling up to 80 percent GHG emissions savings compared to standard composite materials and metals. | $12M | Series A | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Benson Hill | Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients.Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversityof plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process. | $150M | Series D | Oct 29, 2020 |  |
| Tellyo | Their new product Tellyo Pro helps content owners and online publishers to get the full benefit of online video.With Tellyo Pro the publishers can easily access the content streamed on TV. They can grab and edit out the relevant clips they want to use in their articles and social media streams. Publishers don't have to worry about copyrightor contracts when using Tellyo Pro, because they are settled with the content owners through Tellyo beforehand.Tellyo offers several ways to generate new revenues from social media interactions around your content. Shared videos play inline on Facebook and Twitter with pre-roll and post-roll advertisement and also the video player can be branded with content from the show’s sponsor.Tellyo provides tools for brands to utilise high value content in new ways. For example by sharing sport highlights to the followers of the brand in social media channels right when it happens. Hence, the content is promoted to the brand’s followers driving up viewership, while the the brand’s followers are engaged with content they appreciate. | $274.3K | Seed | Apr 03, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accelr8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelr8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACVC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acvc-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [La Caisse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caisse-de-depot-et-placement-du-quebec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fall Line Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fall-line-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gatemore Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gatemore-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GS Group invest in?

GS Group invests primarily in Video, AgTech and Publishing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did GS Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for GS Group closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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