Houlihan Lokey Advises Bridgepoint
Bridgepoint has led a €200M investment in Skello alongside the management team
Buyside Advisor
Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Bridgepoint has led a €200 million investment in Skello, the AI-powered HR management solution for frontline teams.
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 30,000 businesses and 700,000 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 €50 million 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.
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.
Houlihan Lokey was mandated for its strong track record and expertise in the tech and HCM space, as well as its international footprint and local coverage. The firm served as the financial buyside advisor to Bridgepoint.