OSO
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
OSO-AI was a French AI startup founded in 2018 in Brest, spun out of the IMT Atlantique incubator by researcher Claude Berrou and STMicroelectronics engineer Olivier Menut. It built AI that recognizes sounds in the environment: a small Wi-Fi device placed in nursing-home bedrooms acts as an 'augmented ear', trained on 150 classes of sounds (shouts, falls, choking, respiratory problems), and alerts caregivers on their phones in real time. It raised a €4 million round (Innovacom, Novinvest, Breizh Up) and launched its ARI (Smart Resident Assistant) product in care facilities.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
OSO-AI was created in Brest, France, out of the IMT Atlantique incubator to develop AI for sound-environment analysis.
- Fundraising
Innovacom took a stake via technocom3 in a €4 million round also involving Novinvest and Breizh Up; the startup planned commercial rollout of its ARI resident-assistant device.
- Status unclear
Company databases (Craft, CB Insights) still list OSO-AI as active and France-based. No public record of a shutdown or failure event was found; the record's failure framing could not be confirmed.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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