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Italian app studio Bending Spoons, which has acquired businesses like Eventbrite, Vimeo, and WeTransfer in recent years, has filed to go public in the U.S. The company joins other names like SpaceX and Anthropic that are preparing to IPO this summer. The company said it has over 500 million monthly active users across its apps, with 9 million paying customers. To date, it has made over 50 acquisitions, including AOL, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Komoot, WeTransfer, Evernote, and Brightcove. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bending Spoons said it ended the year with $1.31 billion in revenue and has generated $601 million in Q1, a 132% year-on-year jump. The company gets the majority of its revenue from subscriptions, which account for 84% of its business. It generated $27.4 million in profit in Q1 2026. The company raised funding at an $11 billion valuation last year, up from $2.8 billion in 2024. In April, Reuters reported that the company could seek a $20 billion valuation with the IPO. Investment management firm Baillie Gifford holds a big chunk of the company, with other institutions such as Cox Enterprises, Durable Capital Partners, and Fidelity also on the list of backers. Bending Spoons

By PYMNTS  |  June 8, 2026 Bending Spoons, an Italian tech company that acquires software businesses, is planning to go public. The company, whose holdings include Vimeo, Eventbrite and AOL, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) Monday (June 8) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the filing, Bending Spoons had net income of $27.5 million and revenue of $601 million for the first three months of this year. That’s compared with a net loss of $112 million and revenue of $259 million in 2025. “As we transform AOL, Eventbrite, and Vimeo, and continue to optimize our other businesses, 2026 is shaping up to be strong,” the company wrote in the filing. “However, our focus remains on maximizing our prospects not for next quarter or even next year, but for the long run. We see a vast opportunity ahead.” The filing adds that Bending Spoons has identified more than 1,000 digital businesses as potential acquisition targets, representing close to $400 billion in aggregate estimated annual revenue in 2025. Advertisement: Scroll to Continue “With AI as a potentially powerful tailwind, we believe we’re well positioned to grow for years to come,” the filing continued. A report on the filing by

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