Bending Spoons, which operates a portfolio of acquired and optimized digital businesses including AOL and Eventbrite, filed on Monday with the SEC for an initial public offering we estimate could raise up to $1.5 billion.
Bending Spoons acquires digital businesses, implements transformations and optimizations to expand earnings, and reinvests in additional acquisitions to continue the compounding cycle. The company has completed more than 50 acquisitions to date. In the 1Q26, its main businesses were, in alphabetical order, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Harvest, komoot, Remini, StreamYard, Vimeo, and WeTransfer. Its portfolio served over 500 million monthly active users and more than 9 million monthly paying customers in March 2026.
The Milan, Italy-based company was founded in 2013 and booked $1.6 billion in revenue for the 12 months ended March 31, 2026. It plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol BSP. Bending Spoons filed confidentially on March 13, 2026. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Allen & Company, Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Securities, Jefferies, Evercore ISI, BNP Paribas, Mizuho Securities, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole CIB, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit Capital Markets, and Banca Akros are the joint bookrunners on the deal. No pricing terms were disclosed.
