# GSO Innovation

> GSO Innovation is a VC fund in Bordeaux backing Software, Marketing and E-Commerce. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bordeaux, France
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gso-innovation
- Website: https://www.gsocapital.com/gso-innovation

GSO Innovation is an Investment Firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $658k–$4.4M |
| Series A | $3.8M–$5.4M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1.6M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Marketing | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Publishing | 2 | 14% |
| Health Care | 2 | 14% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 43% |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donecle | Donecle offers an ultra-fast inspection solution based on drones. | $11.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Genoskin | Genoskin is a biotech company that leverages its expertise in skin biology and immunology to enhance the development of medications and vaccines. | $5.4M | Series A | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Febus Optics | Febus Optics is an innovative company bringing a new generation of optical fiber based sensor system to the market, in particular for the maintenance and monitoring of infrastructures. | $4.4M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| TurnK | TurnK est le 1er Groupe de Service 100% No Code. Notre métier ? Concevoir, paramétrer et connecter entre eux vos outils métiers sans développement informatique. TurnK propose 4 services : #1 Web Design : Refonte de site vitrine & Ecommerce #2 Integration : Intégration et parametrage de votre CRM, ERP, outil de ticketing, marketing #3 AppBuilder: Création de votre outil métier personnalisé #4 Placement : Internalisation de compétence sur votre stack interne | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| SELF & INNOV | SELF & INNOV is the platform dedicated to tax aid for innovation research tax credit, innovation tax credit, and young innovative company status. The platform is the only online solution for self-diagnosing free of charge and seeing money can claim before recovering and secure with the support. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| ALOGIA Groupe | ALOGIA Groupe offers preventive health responses to senior people at home through care management and innovative services. | $7.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| kapptivate | Stay ahead of the game by detecting bugs before they reach your clients. Kapptivate offers the ultimate no-code solution for detecting bugs in mobile apps and web services. With our synthetic monitoring capabilities, you can easily monitor your apps and services from anywhere in the world, quickly and without any hassle. | $3.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Madeinvote | With its ultra-targeted online consumer research solution, Madeinvote provides key insights that will help brands and organizations in their strategic decision-making. It harnesses the power of the internet and social media to capture consumers right where they are to answer your questions. Thanks to the wide range of targeting methods, it has theability to reach only the audience that interests you and thus create your target sample according to ultra-precise geographical and marketing criteria. | $647.4K | Debt Financing | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Madeinvote | With its ultra-targeted online consumer research solution, Madeinvote provides key insights that will help brands and organizations in their strategic decision-making. It harnesses the power of the internet and social media to capture consumers right where they are to answer your questions. Thanks to the wide range of targeting methods, it has theability to reach only the audience that interests you and thus create your target sample according to ultra-precise geographical and marketing criteria. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 06, 2023 |  |
| Poool | Poool is the Audience Conversion Platform to help Content Producers convert their audience into leads, members and subscribers.Our products: Paywall. Registration Wall. Cookie Wall. Subscription Platform.3 reasons to choose Poool: #1 You will launch quickly: you'll be up and running in < 30 days, with some of our clients achieving itjust 10 days after our onboarding call.#2 You’ll achieve a positive ROI fast: in under 90 days, you'll reach positive ROI and sustain this in the long run.#3 Poool is built for growth: start with a single conversion strategy, iterate and test different wall scenarios with deep granularity at article, device, source and user engagement level to continuously optimize long-term performance.Poool's impact on your bottom line is high, fast and continuous: — +9 pts consent rate won back in 5 weeks. — 2x logged-in traffic in 5 months. — 200% increase in conversion rate in 5 weeks. | $4.4M |  | Sep 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Credit Agricole Aquitaine Expansion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-agricole-aquitaine-expansion) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IRDI SORIDEC Gestion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irdi-soridec-gestion) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Swen Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swen-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elevation Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inter-invest-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AperiamVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mathcapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OCCTE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/occte) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does GSO Innovation invest in?

GSO Innovation invests primarily in Software, Marketing and E-Commerce startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GSO Innovation's check size?

GSO Innovation typically joins rounds of $658k–$4.4M at Seed, $3.8M–$5.4M at Series A and $1.6M–$12M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GSO Innovation participates in.

### When did GSO Innovation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for GSO Innovation closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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