Skello, the AI-powered HR management solution for frontline teams, announces a €200m investment from Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading mid-market investors. This transaction marks a new milestone in Skello's development, with the ambition to accelerate its European expansion and its ongoing investments in artificial intelligence.
Accelerating Skello's European expansion
Bridgepoint will become the company's lead minority shareholder through Bridgepoint Development Capital V, a lower middle-market fund focused on fast-growing European businesses, drawing on its wider experience scaling European technology leaders such as Brevo, LumApps, Kyriba and Bee2Link. Skello’s founders, the management team, and historical investors Partech and XAnge are reinvesting as part of the transaction. The operation also enables the management team to increase its stake in the company, reflecting its commitment to this new phase of development.
This investment will allow Skello to accelerate its development around three priorities: consolidating its leadership position in France, pursuing its European expansion, and broadening the functional scope of its platform. This strategy will be supported by team reinforcement, technological investments in AI, and targeted external growth operations.
The company plans to hire 100 people in 2026 across tech, product, and sales functions in Paris, Lille, and Barcelona. These hires will support the development of the platform's AI capabilities and Skello's commercial acceleration across Europe, as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the company's innovation and execution capacity.
Becoming the reference platform for frontline teams in Europe
Founded in 2016 by Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan, Skello provides powerful technology tools that help businesses manage all aspects of their frontline workforce: scheduling, administrative management, compliance, and operational performance.
The company currently serves 25,000 businesses and 600,000 daily users across France, Spain, the Benelux, and Italy. Operating from its hubs in Paris, Lille, and Barcelona, Skello employs more than 400 people and exceeded €50M ARR in 2026, having reached profitability in 2025.
Skello has established itself as one of Europe's leading players in frontline workforce management, with an intuitive platform designed to simplify the organisation, oversight, and day-to-day management of frontline teams. In 2025, the company launched Skello Assistant, the first AI agent dedicated to frontline teams, capable of transforming large volumes of data into tailored HR insights and automating the actions that follow, to inform decisions and ease daily operations.
Today, Skello continues along this path with a new automated scheduling experience built around real operational constraints: projected revenue, historical data, and on-the-ground needs. At the same time, AI embedded at the heart of the product supports frontline managers on their most repetitive and complex tasks: handling administrative work, detecting payroll, clock-in, or scheduling anomalies, precisely when it matters most. Advanced intelligence, always within reach.
Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan, co-founders of Skello, said: "Frontline workers represent nearly 55% of Europe's workforce and are too often left behind by digital transformation. We created Skello to give them tools built for their daily operational realities. Today, two million people have a Skello account, and this transaction gives us the means to significantly accelerate our European development, our AI investments, and our market consolidation strategy. Bridgepoint Development Capital brings exactly the expertise we needed for this new phase of growth."
Jean-Baptiste Salvin, Partner at Bridgepoint, added:"Skello brings together everything we look for: clear market leadership, strong growth momentum, a differentiated product, and a European market that remains largely underserved and fragmented. Frontline teams represent a major share of Europe's working population, with growing needs for digitalisation and operational management. We are convinced that Skello has the assets needed to build a European reference leader in this category".
Partech and XAnge, Skello's historical investors, are also reinvesting in this transaction.
Cyril Bertrand, Partner at Xange, concluded: "What Skello has built over the past few years, both technologically and across Europe, is remarkable. We are delighted to continue this journey alongside Bridgepoint Development Capital and the management team."