News
In Brief
- Strategic Merger Announced — LumApps and Beekeeper agree to combine businesses.
- Expanded Workforce Coverage — New platform targets both desk-based and frontline employees globally.
- Market Leadership Impact — Enterprise HR leaders gain access to a unified, AI-powered employee experience platform offering broader reach and innovation potential.
LumApps, a provider of AI-driven intranet solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Beekeeper, a mobile-first platform for frontline teams. According to company officials, the transaction values the combined entity at more than $1 billion.
The merger will create what the companies describe as the first AI-powered Employee Hub, an integrated platform for both desk-based and frontline workers. The combined organization will serve over 7 million users across over 2,000 clients globally, with approximately $150 million in recurring revenue.
Impacted Audiences for LumApps-Beekeeper Merger
- Enterprise HR and internal communications leaders
- IT decision-makers managing digital workplace technology stacks
- Frontline and desk-based employees across manufacturing, retail and hospitality sectors
Desk-Based and Deskless Worker Context
The modern digital workplace divide between frontline and desk-based employees has created an urgent market need for unified communication platforms.
Frontline workers constitute roughly 80% of the global workforce, yet traditional intranets weren't designed for employees without company devices. According to industry reports, almost a quarter of frontline workers lack access to necessary digital tools, while hybrid work has created similar challenges for office employees.
The intranet space has evolved significantly, with vendors expanding features to become more versatile and interconnected. Over the past year, employee experience platform vendors have developed AI capabilities in innovative ways, with many promising more functionality.
However, AI integration comes with challenges. Some experts warn it's "bordering on techno-utopian" to expect AI to make sense of poorly managed information in digital workplaces. Recent benchmarking studies found that while AI tools can help improve intranet content, human editors remain better at targeting content with nuance and cultural alignment.
LumApps, founded in 2012, has grown through strategic acquisitions to become a significant player in the employee experience platform market, now joining forces with Beekeeper to address these evolving workplace needs.
Together, our innovation and integration efforts will deliver a uniquely powerful platform for organizations and their people.
- Elie Mélois, Chief Product & Tecnology Officer and co-founder
LumApps
What the Combined LumApps and Beekeeper Platforms Offer
According to the companies, the combined digital workplace platform will offer:
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| AI-Powered Employee Hub | Integrated platform for productivity and communication |
| Cross-Workforce Coverage | Solutions for both desk-based and frontline employees |
| Global Reach | Support for organizations across regions and industries |
| Workplace Integration | Connections with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 |
| Mobile-First Access | Purpose-built solutions for deskless workers |
Related Reading: What is the digital workplace? A 2025 perspective.
LumApps Background
Founded in Lyons, France in 2012 by Sébastien Ricard, Olivier Chanoux, Lionel Grivel and Élie Méloïs, LumApps provides a cloud-native digital workplace platform to unify communications, knowledge and applications into a single, personalized intranet hub for mid-sized and large enterprises.
Its core products include an employee communications platform and social intranet, with integrations for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. The platform provides personalized communications, knowledge management, employee engagement and unified enterprise search through AI-driven features and mobile access.
LumApps customers span global industries such as retail, manufacturing and financial services. Its typical customers are large organizations seeking to improve internal communications and employee experience. The company's client base boasts several multinational brands and emphasizes scalability for complex organizations.
The company was acquired by Bridgepoint Group in 2024.
Beekeeper Background
Founded in Zurich in 2012 by Cristian Grossmann, Andreas Slotosch, Daniel Sztutwojner and Flavio Pfaffhauser, Beekeeper provides a mobile-first employee communications and engagement platform for frontline and deskless teams at mid-sized and large enterprises.
Its core offering is the Beekeeper Frontline Success Platform — an all-in-one app delivering instant messaging, news streams, task automation, shift scheduling, digital forms and AI-driven features to boost engagement and productivity. The platform integrates with leading HRIS and collaboration systems — Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, UKG, Microsoft Teams, Slack — and connects to payroll and scheduling tools like ADP, Personio and UKG, while syncing documents with SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive for single-source content management.
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Beekeeper’s customers span industries including hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare. Typical deployments connect geographically dispersed frontline teams — such as global hotel chains, manufacturing giants and retail brands — enabling managers to streamline communications, HR to automate onboarding and payroll queries, and executives to harness analytics-driven insights.
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