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Skello raises €200M and its founders end up owning more of the company

Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe.

Paris-based Skello has raised €200m led by Bridgepoint, EU-Startups reports. The unusual part: its founders and managers came out owning more of the company, not less, as Tech Funding News noted. Existing backers Partech and XAnge reinvested, and Bridgepoint becomes the largest outside shareholder.

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Skello can pull that off because it does not need the money to survive. The company turned profitable in 2025 and crossed €50m in annual recurring revenue this year. It builds AI-powered scheduling and HR software for frontline teams. They make up roughly 55 per cent of Europe’s workforce, a group digital tools long overlooked.

Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan, both Partech alumni, founded Skello in 2016. It now serves about 30,000 businesses and 700,000 daily...

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