Bending Spoons, which operates a portfolio of acquired and optimized digital businesses including AOL and Eventbrite, raised $1.7 billion by offering 58 million shares (41% secondary) at $29, above the $26 to $28 range.
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 will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol BSP. 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 acted as joint bookrunners on the deal.
