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Clipperton acted as sole financial advisor to Skello, the AI-powered HR management solution for frontline teams, on its €200m investment by Bridgepoint Development Capital. This transaction marks a new milestone in the company’s development, with the ambition to accelerate its European expansion and its investments in artificial intelligence.


Our Client

  • 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 30k businesses and 700k 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.

Deal Rationale

  • Through this €200 million investment, Bridgepoint joins Skello as a minority shareholder, alongside the founders, the management team, and historical investors Partech and XAnge, both of whom are reinvesting in the transaction. The transaction also enables the management team to increase its stake in the company, reflecting its commitment to this new phase of development.
  • This transaction will allow Skello to accelerate its growth 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 acquisitions.
  • The company plans to hire 100 people in 2026 across tech, product, and sales roles in Paris, Lille, and Barcelona. These hires will support the development of the platform’s AI capabilities and Skello’s go-to-market acceleration across Europe, as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the company’s innovation and execution capacity.
  • “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, 2 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 brings exactly the expertise we needed for this new phase of growth,” say Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan, co-founders of Skello.

Clipperton’s track record: advising European tech champions through their VC-to-PE transition

This transaction underscores Clipperton’s position as a leading advisor to European technology champions, in particular those navigating the shift from venture capital to private equity ownership, a path increasingly taken by mature software leaders. Buyouts deals have grown to >30% of VC-backed exits in Europe over the past years, making private equity one of the primary liquidity route for the continent’s software scale-ups.

Clipperton has advised on a steady series of such transitions over the past months, including , Hublo (with Five Arrows), SkillCorner (with Silversmith), Peter Park (with Great Hill Partners), Didomi (with Marlin Equity) and N2F (with FTV Capital). Beyond individual mandates, the firm has documented this structural shift extensively through its “From VC to PE” report series, now in its third edition.

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About Clipperton

Clipperton is a leading international investment bank dedicated to technology and growth companies, with offices in Paris, New York, Berlin, and Munich, as well as partnerships in the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, China, Italy, and Spain. We provide strategic and financial advisory services to entrepreneurs, corporates, and top-tier investors in Europe who are looking to execute strategic M&A, private equity, private placements, and debt financing transactions. Founded in 2003, we have completed over 500 deals with fast-growing technology businesses, blue-chip corporates, and renowned financial investors.