Frederic Guilluu
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- Full Name
- Frédéric Le Guillou
- Title
- Partner
- Firm
- GO CAPITAL
- Firm Type
- Venture capital / private equity investment management firm
- Investment Stage
- Seed / early stage through venture capital and growth capital
- Check Size
- Sustainable Water Fund targets tickets of €1M to €10M for growth-stage companies
- Target Company Profile
- Innovative technology companies with strong growth potential, especially deeptech and impact-oriented companies
- Sector Focus
- Maritime economy, energy transition, cleantech, agri-food, sustainable water, biodiversity
- Geographic Focus
- France, with GO CAPITAL offices in Rennes, Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, Caen, Orléans, Tours, and Marseille; Sustainable Water Fund targets Europe
- Location
- Rennes, France
Background
Frédéric Le Guillou is a Partner at GO CAPITAL, a French investment firm founded in 2003 that invests in technological innovation and impact-driven companies across regional ecosystems. GO CAPITAL describes itself as managing or advising more than €400M and covering multiple innovation stages, from seed capital to growth capital.
Before joining GO CAPITAL, Le Guillou began his career as a chargé d’affaires for investor clubs in Lyon. He also co-founded and managed a foodtech startup. Earlier in his career he completed research internships, including work in Australia at CSIRO on innovative soil-analysis tools and work for reinsurer PartnerRe on natural-risk modeling.
Le Guillou joined GO CAPITAL in 2015. His work is mainly focused on financing and strategic support for innovative companies in maritime economy and ecological transition sectors, including agri-food and cleantech. GO CAPITAL states that he was appointed investment director in 2021; the firm’s current team page lists him as Partner.
He holds an agronomy engineering degree from Institut Agro and a Mastère Spécialisé Entreprendre from emlyon business school.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- GO CAPITAL’s stated mission is to invest in innovation that supports responsible, ambitious projects, territorial proximity, and local job creation.
- Le Guillou’s personal focus at GO CAPITAL is maritime economy and ecological transition, including agri-food and cleantech.
- GO CAPITAL’s early-stage funds finance pre-creation and first development steps, including R&D, feasibility studies, company formation, first prototypes, and first hires.
- GO CAPITAL says its impact strategy centers on “performance financière, contribution environnementale, utilité sociale.”
- Impact Océan Capital, a GO CAPITAL fund launched in January 2023, is a €60M Article 9 SFDR fund investing in young innovative impact companies in the maritime sector.
- Sustainable Water Fund targets 12 to 20 high-growth SMEs in water and biodiversity, with €1M to €10M tickets, as a minority reference investor and board member.
Notable Investments
- Sweetch Energy: Produces energy from salinity gradients; GO CAPITAL invested in April 2017 via Go Capital Amorçage II.
- Abyss Ingredients: Produces specialty health ingredients extracted from marine biological resources; GO CAPITAL invested in December 2018 via Ouest Ventures III, and the company announced a €1.5M raise in January 2019.
- Kemiwatt: Develops and commercializes high-power flow batteries; GO CAPITAL invested in October 2014 via Go Capital Amorçage.
- Grain de Sail: Listed by GO CAPITAL among investments of Impact Océan Capital.
- VirtualBrowser: French secure web-browsing technology company; raised €6M in May 2026 from GO CAPITAL, BNP Paribas Développement, Auriga Cyber Ventures, and Bpifrance.
- Axomove: Digital medical device for prevention and rehabilitation; raised €4M Series A in April 2026, co-led by Bpifrance’s Fonds Prévention Numérique and GO CAPITAL.
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