Happy to Meet You

What Happy to Meet You does

Happy to Meet You (legal name HTMY) is a privately held French human-resources services firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rennes, France, with additional agencies in Nantes (Saint-Herblain), Paris, and Brest. Operating with an estimated 11-50 employees, the firm provides an integrated suite of HR services spanning externalized recruitment (middle management, executive search, and RPO), employer brand strategy, HR consulting and assessment, professional coaching, skills assessment (bilan de compétences), individual and collective outplacement, transition management, and professional training. It serves two horizontal segments: enterprises across multiple industries (with particular specialization in the agri-food sector) and individual job seekers/professionals.

The company is a professional-services business rather than a technology developer; it holds no proprietary software or platform, and its value derives from consultant expertise, HR methodologies, and regional client relationships. Its team is described as combining former HR directors, work psychologists, assessors, trainers, coaches, digital-marketing specialists, and recruiters. It is Qualiopi-certified and Datadock-registered — quality standards mandatory for accessing public and employer training funding in France — and operates through partnerships with OPCOs and the government-run Mon Compte Formation (CPF) platform administered by the Caisse des Dépôts.

Revenue mechanics are entirely services-based. Recruitment follows a success-based model with staged deposits (one-third at commencement, at signing, and at arrival), 70% of full price for additional hires per mission, and fixed-cost retainers for RPO. Skills assessments are publicly priced (roughly €1,564-€2,500 HT depending on format) and financed via CPF, employer, or OPCO; training, coaching, outplacement, and transition management are quote-based or fixed-price per mission. Go-to-market is sales-led through its four physical agencies, complemented by website self-service, CPF platform enrollment, and a content-driven blog, newsletter, webinars, and active social media presence for demand generation.

Name

Happy to Meet You

Legal name

HTMY

Website

https://happytomeetyou.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

French HR services firm (est. 2016, Rennes) offering recruitment, employer branding, HR consulting, coaching, skills assessment, outplacement, and training across four western-France agencies, serving both enterprises (notably agri-food) and individual job seekers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Consulting & Recruitment Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC), Performance Management & Productivity Consulting (BPAHAGAL), Human Resources & Talent (SHRM/HRCI Recertification) (EDAAALAN)

Keywords

• Recruitment services
• HR consulting
• Employer branding
• Outplacement services
• Skills assessment

Headquarters

HQ city

Rennes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Services (Recrutement): Externalized recruitment services for enterprises, covering the full hiring process from brief definition to candidate onboarding. Pricing follows a success-based model with deposits (1/3 at commencement, 1/3 at candidate signing, 1/3 at arrival). For multiple hires from one mission, 70% of full price per additional hire is charged. RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) is priced as a fixed-cost retainer based on mission duration.
2. HR Consulting (Conseil RH): Advisory services including employer brand strategy, evaluation and assessment, and organizational consulting.
3. Skills Assessment / Bilan de Compétences: Individual skills assessment services for job seekers and employees, available in multiple formats (12h, 14h, 16h face-to-face). Financed via CPF (personal training account), employer, or OPCO (skills operator). A digitalized track is accessible entirely online.
4. Outplacement (Individual and Collective): Career transition and reclassification support for employees departing organizations, including diagnostic, professional project design, and job search implementation. Offered in contexts of negotiated rupture, dismissal, economic restructuring, or PSE (Plan de Sauvegarde de l'Emploi).
5. Training (Formation): Professional training services delivered as inter-company or intra-company programs, covering HR and management topics. Financed through employer, OPCO, or individual CPF. The organization is Qualiopi certified and Datadock registered.
6. Professional Coaching: Individual and team coaching to support professional development, leadership transitions, and change management. Delivered through certified coaches with backgrounds in HR, consulting, and personal development.
7. Transition Management (Management de Transition): Interim management solutions providing experienced managers to organizations needing rapid leadership replacement or transformation support. Billed as a fixed price per mission upon delivery.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Happy to Meet You is a French HR consulting and recruitment firm that externalizes end-to-end hiring (job briefs, sourcing, pre-qualification, interviews, shortlists, onboarding) for enterprises and provides complementary HR services: employer brand strategy, skills assessment (bilan de compétences), individual and collective outplacement, professional coaching, transition (interim) management, and Qualiopi-certified professional training. Services are delivered via four physical agencies in western France (Rennes, Nantes, Paris, Brest) and accessible to individuals through the CPF platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recruitment Services (Recrutement)

Quantifiable outcome

• 96% of bilan de compétences beneficiaries completed their full assessment (2025)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OPCO (Opérateurs de Compétences — France Travail and sector-specific OPCOs)coreOthersHappy to Meet You collaborates with OPCO organizations for the financing and co-management of professional training and skills assessment programs. OPCOs (including OPCO Santé, OPCO Atlas, OPCO 2i, Uniformation, OPCO EP) co-finance training and bilan de compétences programs for member companies and individuals. This partnership is essential for enabling client access to public and employer training funding.
• FFPABC (Fédération Française des Professionnels du Bilan de Compétences)coreOthersHappy to Meet You's skills assessment center adheres to the ethical charter and professional standards defined by FFPABC (Fédération Française des Professionnels du Bilan de Compétences). The organization follows the federation's principles of professional ethics, client confidentiality, and quality standards in skills assessment delivery.
• Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (Mon Compte Formation)coreOthersHappy to Meet You's bilan de compétences and training services are registered on the government-operated Mon Compte Formation platform managed by CDC (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations). This enables individuals to use accumulated CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) credits to finance and enroll in the company's skills assessment and training programs.
• DigitalisminorOthersDigitalis logo appears on the professional coaching page of Happy to Meet You, indicating a commercial or collaborative relationship in the context of HR and coaching services delivery.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• PageGroup (Michael Page / Page Personnel): PageGroup operates multiple recruitment brands in France targeting mid-to-senior professionals. Comparable to Happy to Meet You on middle-management and executive search delivery with a multi-specialist, multi-region model.
• Robert Half France: Robert Half specializes in finance, accounting, technology, and administrative permanent and contract placement in France. Comparable on specialist professional recruitment and a multi-office French operating model.
• Hays France: Hays is a global recruitment firm with a major French footprint covering permanent, temporary, and RPO placements across multiple industries. Directly comparable to Happy to Meet You on multi-sector permanent placement and enterprise recruitment mandates.
• Expectra (Randstad France): Expectra is the specialist permanent and contract recruitment brand of Randstad in France, focused on technical, engineering, and administrative roles. Directly comparable on multi-sector permanent placement and enterprise RPO-like mandates.
• Fed Group: Fed Group is a French recruitment firm with specialized brands across IT, finance, HR, and engineering. Directly comparable on specialist permanent placement, mid-market positioning, and France-wide enterprise mandates.
• LHH France (Lee Hecht Harrison): LHH is the career-transition and outplacement arm of the Adecco Group, with strong French operations. Directly comparable to Happy to Meet You's outplacement and individual career-transition services offered to enterprise clients.

Emerging players

• Walt Community: Walt Community is a France-based community-driven recruitment firm focused on tech, digital, and B2B roles. Comparable on the modern multi-channel, content-led recruitment go-to-market targeting enterprise clients in regional French hubs.
• Alixio: Alixio is a France-based HR transformation, career management, and outplacement specialist. Comparable to HTMY on HR consulting, outplacement, and employer-brand style services for mid-market and enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• ManpowerGroup France: Manpower is one of France's largest staffing and recruitment firms, operating across permanent placement, temporary staffing, and RPO. Comparable on the recruitment core but materially larger and broader in scope than HTMY.
• Adecco France: Adecco is a global staffing leader with broad French operations in temporary, permanent, and outplacement (via LHH) recruitment. Comparable on the recruitment and outplacement offering but materially larger and more diversified.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/htmyfr
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCeK8G9J2QRq0YjNWFHhiIUg
• Facebookfacebook.com/htmyFR
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/happy-to-meet-you
• Instagraminstagram.com/happy.to.meet.you
• TikToktiktok.com/@happy_to_meet_you_

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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