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Bridgepoint

5 Marble Arch, London, W1H 7EJ, United Kingdom

Overview

Bridgepoint is a private equity and asset management firm specializing in growth investments across private equity, infrastructure, and private credit. The firm offers tailored investment strategies, such as middle-market buyouts, small-cap growth capital, and private credit, supporting businesses in sectors like healthcare, technology, advanced industrials, and consumer services. Bridgepoint also provides loans and manages credit opportunities through its syndicated debt offerings.

Total investments
10
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Skello

    Led · Equity · Jul 2026

    Founded in 2016 by Partech alumni, Skello provides an AI-enabled scheduling and HR platform used by managers and frontline employees to build compliant schedules, manage shift changes, and handle timekeeping. The company launched Skello Assistant in 2025, an AI agent that analyzes scheduling and payroll data to flag overtime, resolve payroll mismatches, and propose schedule fixes. From a Paris hub with engineering in Lille and a sales office in Barcelona, Skello expanded from France into Spain, Belgium, and Italy and covers roughly 30,000 businesses and 700,000 daily users. Skello crossed €50 million in annual recurring revenue in 2026 and is already profitable. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate European expansion, pursue acquisitions in a fragmented market, broaden its product, and hire about 100 people across engineering, data science, and international sales in 2026.

  • Homebound

    Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2018, Homebound digitizes the entire home-building process, allowing customers in markets such as Denver, Dallas, and Houston to choose a lot, floor plan, and finishes online and then check out as easily as buying any other e-commerce product. The platform creates a real-time 'digital twin' of each house, giving buyers progress updates and AI-driven inspection reports while enabling precise materials ordering that reduces waste. Behind the scenes, Homebound’s supply-chain software replaces the traditional, error-prone lumber-yard estimates with exact bills of materials. Since its $75 million Series C in 2022, the company has secured an additional $400 million—$100 million in operating-company equity and $300 million in real-estate capital—to scale its model. Backers include Goldman Sachs, Magnetar, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, GV, Fifth Wall, Atomic, Forerunner, Neuberger Berman, and Bridgepoint. CEO and co-founder Nikki Pechet says Homebound aims to open its end-to-end platform to third-party builders and ultimately compete with the nation’s largest homebuilders. Management projects the business will reach profitability by the end of 2026, positioning the company to become the “Amazon of homes.”

  • Brevo

    Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2012 as Sendinblue, Brevo now provides an all-in-one platform covering marketing automation, CRM, customer data management and multichannel communications including email, SMS, WhatsApp, live chat, push notifications and integrated sales calls. The company serves more than 600,000 customers worldwide, with clients ranging from small businesses to enterprises like Carrefour, eBay and H&M. Brevo surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2023 and has already exceeded its goal of €200 million in ARR ahead of its 2025 target, while maintaining a double-digit EBITDA margin. Management aims to reach €1 billion in ARR by 2030, with 45% of that coming from acquisitions—11 of which have already been completed. The U.S. currently accounts for 15% of revenue, but leadership plans to invest over €100 million to grow that share toward 50% of total sales. The company is also committing €50 million over five years to embed AI across its product suite. Brevo employs roughly 1,000 people and positions itself as a European alternative capable of challenging HubSpot and Salesforce on product depth and ease of use.

  • Justo

    Led · Equity · Oct 2024

    Jüsto, founded in 2019 by Ricardo Weder, is an online-only grocer based in Mexico City. It operates entirely online with no physical stores and delivers groceries directly to customers' homes. The company uses technology to streamline inventory management and logistics, combining top brands with local producers in its catalog. Jüsto raised $70M in equity and debt financing primarily from General Atlantic, with HSBC México facilitating the debt portion. The financing will support execution of its growth strategy and expand its footprint in Mexico and beyond. The business is positioned to capture rising e-commerce adoption in Latin America by scaling its technology-driven operations.

  • CloudBees

    Participated · Series F · Dec 2021

    CloudBees provides a software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling continuous integration, continuous delivery, release orchestration, feature management, analytics, and continuous compliance. The company has expanded its product portfolio through new product launches and acquisitions including CodeShip, Electric Cloud, Rollout, and Neuralprints. CloudBees serves large customers—21 customers with annual recurring revenue greater than $1 million; 41% of its customers have annual revenue above $1 billion and 26% have more than 10,000 employees. Headcount has grown roughly 70% to more than 500 employees. The new capital will be used to accelerate product innovation, recruit and develop talent, expand in markets like Asia Pacific, and broaden global and regional partnerships. CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, Calif. CloudBees offers an end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM) that builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to accelerate development and delivery while minimizing risk. The company is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X and provides CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) capabilities. CloudBees serves over 3,500 well-known brands, 46 of the Fortune 100, and the article cites an estimated 15+ million developers using Jenkins; over 50% of the Fortune 500 invest in CloudBees. Management says it will use the new funding to bring innovation to its modern software delivery suite, grow strategic partnerships, and accelerate global growth organically and through M&A. The company positions itself as powering the continuous economy for both startups and large enterprises. CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. CloudBees builds on the open-source Jenkins automation server as the core of its product lineup, extending Jenkins with enterprise features and offering training and certification. The company recently acquired Codeship, adding a hosted continuous integration and delivery platform that is less tightly coupled to Jenkins. CloudBees bundles these offerings into enterprise products and services for large organizations. Its customers include 46 of the Fortune 100 and three of the Fortune 10, indicating significant enterprise traction. Management frames the DevOps market as rapidly expanding and views continuous software delivery as a strategic imperative for businesses. The company is using funding to buy smaller players and expand quickly to gain market share in a competitive DevOps landscape. CloudBees offers Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions that enable enterprises to scale CI/CD on-premise and in the cloud. The company positions itself as the Enterprise Jenkins Company and says its platform meets enterprise requirements for security, scalability, and manageability. CloudBees has seen significant growth in enterprise uptake of Jenkins and counts global brands such as Amadeus, 3M, Intuit, Fidelity, Disney, Verizon, Cisco and T-Mobile among its subscribers. The company plans to use new funding to invest in development, marketing, sales, professional services, strategic partnerships and to introduce new products for a broader range of customers. CloudBees shifted in 2014 to focus solely on Jenkins-powered continuous delivery and is leveraging that strategic pivot to capture market share. Total external investment in the company is just under $50 million since inception in 2010. CloudBees is a Java-centric enterprise PaaS that allows developers to build and test applications on its platform. The service focuses on Java and supports virtually all JVM-based languages, including Spring, JRuby, Grails, Scala and Groovy. Developers use Jenkins on CloudBees to track code changes in Git and SVN repositories and to trigger builds with Maven, Gradle and Ant. The company, founded in 2010, has raised a total of $25.7 million to date, including a recently announced $11.2M Series C. CloudBees plans to use the new funds to drive revenue growth by expanding its feature set, growing its global sales footprint and extending the CloudBees brand. It previously partnered with Verizon to make its services available on the Verizon Cloud.

Team

  • David Shaw

    Chairman

  • Andrew Konopelski

    Managing Partner, Bridgepoint Credit

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  • Paul Johnson

    Partner

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  • Magnus Gottås

    Director

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