Bending Spoons, the Milan-based software owner of brands including Vimeo and AOL, launched its Nasdaq Global Select Market debut on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, pricing its IPO at $29 per share and valuing the company at roughly $18.4 billion.
By the time the opening bell rang on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, Bending Spoons was no longer just a European software buyer with a global portfolio—it was a newly public company on the Nasdaq.
The Milan-based firm. founded in 2013 and built around acquiring and improving software businesses. made its debut with shares trading under the ticker “BSP” on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The stock started its life at a price that was above the range it had first set in late June: $29 per share. after an initial expected band of $26.00 to $28.00.
That gap is where the market message lands. The company’s IPO—marketed as the next major public offering in a 2026 tech year otherwise dominated by AI and hardware—ended up attracting more interest than Bending Spoons and its underwriters had signaled when the launch was announced on June 23.
Bending Spoons describes itself in a way that sounds almost like a business model spelled out in code: like a private equity firm. it buys struggling software companies. but it doesn’t plan to flip them or split them for sale. Instead. it uses software engineering expertise to improve the products and offerings of the companies it buys. aiming to make them sustainable and raise their earnings—money it then uses to buy more distressed software firms.
As of March 2026, the company says it has over 500 million monthly active users across its portfolio and more than 9 million monthly paying subscribers.
The brands now sitting inside that strategy reflect the company’s reach far beyond Italy. Bending Spoons owns a series of well-known software and media businesses, including:
Evernote (acquired in 2023)
Meetup (2024)
WeTransfer (2024)
Brightcove (2025)
Vimeo (2025)
AOL (2026)
Eventbrite (2026)
On the deal mechanics, Bending Spoons offered 57,971,015 ordinary shares in total. Of those, 34,398,640 shares were sold directly by Bending Spoons, while 23,572,375 shares were offered by the company’s existing private shareholders.
The distinction matters for how much cash the company itself took in. Bending Spoons received proceeds only from the roughly 34.4 million shares it sold directly; it received no proceeds from the roughly 23.5 million shares sold by existing private shareholders. Still. the IPO was large in headline terms: it raised about $1.68 billion overall. with Bending Spoons’ direct share sale raising about $1 billion and the private sellers raising about $680 million.
At the IPO price of $29 per share, Bending Spoons is valued at roughly $18.4 billion.
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