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Bending Spoons

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Italian technology company

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian technology conglomerate founded in 2013. Based in Milan, the company acquires products (such as Airtable, AOL, Eventbrite, and Vimeo) with existing product‑market fit and manages them for long-term ownership, often increasing revenue and lowering expenses (including by reducing headcount). The company employs full-stack developers to rewrite acquired codebases using artificial intelligence, proprietary tools, and open-source software (often Python, FastAPI, and TypeScript).3 Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol BSP.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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  • TickerBSP on Nasdaq1
  • Industrydigital technology1
  • HeadquartersMilan1
  • Founded inCopenhagen1
  • Websitebendingspoons.com
  • Legal formsocietà per azioni1
  • Incorporated inItaly6
  • Business addressVia Nino Bonnet 10, Milan6
  • LEI8156003EE5CFCCBBEB314
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusIssued and current4
  • Registered addressVIA BONNET NINO, 10, 20154 Milano, Italy4
  • Registered withInfocamere, 089318609624

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Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian technology conglomerate founded in 2013. Based in Milan, the company acquires products (such as Airtable, AOL, Eventbrite, and Vimeo) with existing product‑market fit and manages them for long-term ownership, often increasing revenue and lowering expenses (including by reducing headcount). The company employs full-stack developers to rewrite acquired codebases using artificial intelligence, proprietary tools, and open-source software (often Python, FastAPI, and TypeScript). On July 1, 2026, the company became a public company via an initial public offering on the Nasdaq in the United States.3

Corporate structure

Bending Spoons sits at the top of its group. 69 entities, 21 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Major holders of Bending Spoons

  • Bending Spoons Milano, Italy
    • Airtable Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • AOL Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
    • Brightcove Subsidiary · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
      • Brightcove Australia Pty Ltd Subsidiary · Australia
      • Brightcove FZ-LLC Subsidiary · United Arab Emirates
      • Brightcove Holdings, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Brightcove India Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · India
      • Brightcove K.K. Subsidiary · Japan
      • Brightcove S. de R.L. de C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
      • Brightcove Singapore Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · Singapore
      • Brightcove UK Ltd Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • Cacti Acquisition LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Othello Acquisition Corporation Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • TV App Agency Ltd. Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • TV App Agency Unipessoal Lda. Subsidiary · Portugal
      • Zencoder Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Eventbrite Subsidiary · San Francisco, California, United States
      • Britehouse, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Eventbrite Argentina S.A. Subsidiary · Argentina
      • Eventbrite AU Pty Limited Subsidiary · Australia
      • Eventbrite Brasil Gestao De Eventos Ltda Subsidiary · Brazil
      • Eventbrite Canada, Inc. Subsidiary · Canada
      • Eventbrite ES SL Subsidiary · Spain
      • Eventbrite Hong Kong Limited Subsidiary · Hong Kong
      • Eventbrite International, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Eventbrite Mexico Payment Processing S. DE R.L. DE C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
      • Eventbrite NZ Subsidiary · New Zealand
      • Eventbrite Operations (IE) Limited Subsidiary · Ireland
      • Eventbrite Singapore Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · Singapore
      • EVENTBRITE TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Hyderabad, India
      • Eventbrite UK Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • Eventioz Holdings, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Issuu Subsidiary · Palo Alto
    • Meetup.com Subsidiary · New York City
    • MileIQ Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • Tractive Subsidiary · Pasching, Austria
    • Vimeo Subsidiary · New York
      • VHX Subsidiary · Brooklyn
    • Bending Spoons Apps ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Easy Tiger Apps ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Fonts ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Remini Web ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • AI CREATIVITY S.R.L. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • BENDING SPOONS HOLDINGS S.P.A. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • BENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS S.P.A. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
      • SPLICE VIDEO EDITOR S.R.L. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • Evernote Owned
    • Harvest Owned
    • Komoot Owned
    • Miro Owned
    • Remini Owned
    • StreamYard Owned
    • WeTransfer Owned

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Bending Spoons reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Luca Ferrari, Francesco Patarnello, and Matteo Danieli worked on an unsuccessful venture-funded product startup called Evertale. They were left with $40,000, which became the seed capital for Bending Spoons in June 2013, also founded in Copenhagen. The company name was inspired by a scene from the science fiction movie The Matrix. The company moved to Milan in 2014.

On 17 April 2020, the Italian government released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's official COVID-19 contact tracing app, Immuni. The app was released on 1 June 2020. Immuni was later decommissioned on December 31, 2022.

In 2025, the company received 800,000 job applications and made 286 hires.

In April 2026, it was revealed that Bending Spoons had picked banks to organize a potential $20 billion U.S. initial public offering in 2026. On June 8, the company filed a Form F-1 with the SEC to list on Nasdaq's Global Select Market under the ticker symbol BSP, targeting a valuation of approximately $20 billion and seeking to raise $1.5 billion. The filing disclosed revenue of $1.31 billion for full-year 2025 and $601 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared with $259 million in the same period a year earlier. Bending Spoons' shares opened for trading on July 1. The company raised $1.68 billion, pricing shares at $29.00. During its first day of trading, the stock surged nearly 40% to close at $40.50 per share. The listing follows a growth strategy focused on acquiring and restructuring over 50 legacy digital brands, including AOL, Evernote and WeTransfer.

In October 2026, Berkshire Hathaway invested an additional $330 million into Bending Spoons.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bending Spoons, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Leadership

Who has led Bending Spoons, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief financial officer

  1. Davide Giorgio Andrea Scarpazza2026–now
  2. Enrico Martinelli2026–now
201520202025
Board members and other officers (11)

Named in SEC Form D filings

People the company listed in its private-offering notices.

  • Executive OfficerAlberto Mitchell Germano named Dec 4, 202520
  • Executive DirectorAnna Giorgio Andrea Lami named Dec 29, 2023 to Dec 4, 202520
  • Executive OfficerChristopher Luke Keenan named Dec 4, 202520
  • Executive OfficerFrancesco Charles Costantini named Dec 4, 202520
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive OfficerLuca Ferrari named Dec 29, 2023 to Dec 4, 202520
  • Executive OfficerNicole Mitchell Wassermann named Dec 4, 202520
  • Executive OfficerValerio Rose Volpe named Jan 22, 202521
  • Executive OfficerValerio Giorgio Andrea Volpe named Dec 29, 202322
  • DirectorFabio Cosmo Domenico Cane named Jan 22, 2025 to Dec 4, 202520
  • DirectorLuca Cosmo Domenico Querella named Jan 22, 2025 to Dec 4, 202520
  • DirectorTommaso Rose Paoli named Dec 4, 202520
  • DirectorClaudio Giorgio Andrea Berretti named Dec 29, 2023 to Jan 22, 202521
  • DirectorLuca Giorgio Andrea Querella named Dec 29, 202322
  • DirectorStefano Giorgio Andrea Bontempelli named Dec 29, 202322

Products and brands

Bending Spoons' strategy has been likened to private equity: it acquires established, subscription-based software products and seeks to raise their profitability through a combination of technology, artificial intelligence, price increases and staff reductions. Unlike a typical private equity firm, it retains the brands it acquires rather than reselling them.

The company's post-acquisition changes have drawn criticism from customers and commentators, particularly over price increases. Following its 2025 acquisition of the time-tracking and invoicing service Harvest, Bending Spoons restructured the product's pricing from a flat per-seat model to a base rate supplemented by usage-based fees, resulting in sharply higher renewal costs for some long-standing customers (in some cases up to 1500% more). In August 2026, Bloomberg News reported that one freelance customer's annual subscription was set to rise roughly twelvefold at renewal, from around $211 to more than $2,500.

Co-founder and chief product officer Matteo Danieli attributed part of the scrutiny to the fact that several acquired products, such as Evernote, had devoted user bases before acquisition, and said that customer retention across the portfolio had remained "remarkably stable" despite the changes.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bending Spoons, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Jan 2026Acquired AOL1
  2. Nov 24, 2025Acquired Vimeo1
  3. Jan 2024Acquired Meetup.com1

Bending Spoons' earliest acquisitions include video editing application Splice, which it acquired from GoPro in 2018, and AI-powered photo editing platform Remini in 2021.

In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model. In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.

In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote. The acquisition was concluded in January 2023. In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff and announced it would relocate to Europe to be closer to Bending Spoons' headquarters. Also in 2023, the company acquired Alight Creative, creators of video editing software Alight Motion.

Bending Spoons made a series of acquisitions in 2024. In January, it acquired the assets of New York City-based mobile app developer Mosaic Group from IAC Inc.; subsequently, Mosaic's entire workforce of 330 staff members was laid off, as they were not part of the acquisition. Also that month, Bending Spoons acquired Meetup, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities. In April, the company announced that it would acquire Hopin, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard. Later in July, the company announced it had acquired digital publishing platform Issuu. Also in July, the company agreed to acquire the Dutch file transfer service WeTransfer, then announced in September they were laying off 75% of the company's workforce. In November, the company agreed to acquire video platform company Brightcove for $233 million. In March, Brightcove laid off 33% of employees.

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In 2025, Bending Spoons acquired several companies, including Komoot in March for near €300 million, soon after which it laid off three quarters of the staff. The company also acquired professional services software provider Harvest in June, California-based MileIQ for $233 million in July, video sharing platform Vimeo in September for $1.38 billion, and AOL in October for $1.5 billion. In December, the acquisition of Eventbrite for approximately $500 million was announced, which closed on March 10, 2026. The following month, Vimeo laid off most of their staff, including the entire video team. AOL later laid off more than 100 employees in February 2026. In April, Bending Spoons expanded its portfolio into the IoT and pet-tech sector by acquiring Tractive, an Austrian company specialized in GPS tracking and health monitoring for pets. The acquisition closed in May 2026. In August 2026, Bending Spoons acquired cloud collaboration service Airtable for $1.285 billion, marking their first purchase since going public a month prior. In September 2026, it agreed to acquire collaboration platform Miro for $1.36 billion.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bending Spoons, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Timeline

  1. Jul 1, 2026Went public Listed on NASDAQ1
  2. 2013Founded Founded in Copenhagen1

Calendar

Coming up

  1. Nov 12, 2026Reports results for the quarter ending Sep/202623

Upcoming dates from Nasdaq's calendar; past results from the company's 8-K filings (Item 2.02). The full markets calendar

Filings

40 filings to the SEC since October 2021: 18 insider forms, 2 large holders, 3 private raises, 17 other. The latest 20:

  1. Oct 14, 20266-K EDGAR
  2. Oct 2, 20266-K EDGAR
  3. Sep 25, 20264 PRIMARY DOCUMENT EDGAR
  4. Sep 25, 20264 PRIMARY DOCUMENT EDGAR
  5. Sep 25, 20264 PRIMARY DOCUMENT EDGAR
  6. Sep 25, 20264 PRIMARY DOCUMENT EDGAR
  7. Sep 25, 20264 PRIMARY DOCUMENT EDGAR
  8. Sep 10, 20266-K EDGAR
  9. Sep 4, 20266-K EDGAR
  10. Aug 13, 20266-K EDGAR
  11. Aug 4, 20266-K EDGAR
  12. Aug 3, 2026SCHEDULE 13G EDGAR
  13. Jul 28, 20266-K EDGAR
  14. Jul 27, 2026S-8 EDGAR
  15. Jul 9, 2026SCHEDULE 13G EDGAR
  16. Jul 1, 2026CERT EDGAR
  17. Jul 1, 2026424B4 EDGAR
  18. Jul 1, 20263 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
  19. Jul 1, 20263 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR
  20. Jul 1, 20263 OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT EDGAR

The 40 filings since October 2021 can be filtered by form type and year here when JavaScript is on.

Every filing from the last five years, summarized. The full record is on SEC EDGAR.

Major holders

Investors who own more than 5% of the shares must tell the SEC: a 13D if they may seek to influence the company, a 13G if they hold passively.

Money raised

Private offerings the company reported to the SEC on Form D.

  1. Oct 29, 2025Raised $243.2 million in a private offering of equity Form D: 42 investors so far Form D
  2. Feb 6, 2024Raised $49.4 million in a private offering of equity Form D: 12 investors so far Form D
  3. Mar 8, 2023Raised $30.4 million in a private offering of equity Form D: 17 investors so far Form D

SEC filer profile

How Bending Spoons is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARBending Spoons S.p.A.2
  • CIK0002004711
  • Incorporated inItaly2
  • Industry code (SIC)7370 Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.2
  • SEC reviewing officeOffice of Technology, Division of Corporation Finance2
  • Business addressVia Nino Bonnet 10, Milan, Italy2
  • Phone39 02812840932
  • On EDGAR sinceDec 29, 20232
  • Filings40 in all: 3 (13), 6-K (7), 4 (5), D (3), DRS/A (2), SCHEDULE 13G (2), 424B4 (1), 8-A12B (1)2
    All 14 form types

    CERT (1), DRS (1), EFFECT (1), F-1 (1), F-1/A (1), S-8 (1)

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