Esker

Esker

Esker was founded in 1985 in Villeurbanne, France, by a group of French engineers. The company went public on Euronext Paris (ticker: ALESK) in 1997 and has since built a global customer base of over 7,000 companies, including enterprises such as Bayer, Coca-Cola, and Sanofi. The firm's core offering is cloud-based document process automation — specifically order-to-cash and procure-to-pay solutions. Esker's platform uses AI and machine learning to capture, interpret, and process invoices, purchase orders, and sales orders with minimal human intervention. The company operates across EMEA, North America, and Asia-Pacific, with regional headquarters in Villeurbanne and Milwaukee. Esker employs roughly 1,600 people globally and maintains a distributed presence across Europe, North America, and Asia. In 2023, the firm processed over 200 million business documents and delivered annual revenue exceeding EUR 100 million (per public filings). The organization also runs an R&D center in France that focuses on machine learning and natural language processing improvements for document capture. Esker's structural differentiator is its focus entirely on document process automation — a narrow vertical that sits at the intersection of enterprise resource planning systems and back-office finance operations. The company competes with both in-house manual processes and generalist BPO providers, but has built a dedicated AI platform purpose-built for finance-specific document workflows, not general document scanning.