Bending Spoons announced the launch of its initial public offering of ordinary shares. The company is offering a total of 57,971,015 ordinary shares, including 34,398,640 shares offered by Bending Spoons and 23,572,375 shares offered by certain selling shareholders.
Bending Spoons and the selling shareholders have also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5,244,026 ordinary shares from the company and 3,451,626 ordinary shares from the selling shareholders.
The IPO price is currently expected to be between $26 and $28 per share.
Bending Spoons has applied to list its ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “BSP.”
Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan, and Allen & Company are acting as joint lead book-running managers for the proposed offering.
Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Securities, Jefferies, Evercore ISI, BNP Paribas, Mizuho, Societe Generale, Crédit Agricole CIB, IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, and Banca Akros – Gruppo Banco BPM are acting as joint book-running managers.
Bending Spoons is a Milan-based technology company built around acquiring and transforming digital businesses. The company said its strategy focuses on acquiring businesses, implementing operational improvements, expanding earnings, and reinvesting in additional acquisitions.
The company has pursued this strategy for more than a decade and said it has not sold a material business to date.
Bending Spoons said its transformation work typically includes reorganizing teams, overhauling technology, redesigning user interfaces, accelerating product development, and improving marketing and monetization. The company also said AI is often both a core part of its vision for acquired businesses and a tool used to implement transformation.
Bending Spoons’ main businesses include AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Harvest, komoot, Remini, StreamYard, Vimeo, and WeTransfer.
In March 2026, the company served more than 500 million monthly active users and over 9 million monthly paying customers.
