Bending Spoons登陆纳斯达克：用公众资金继续收购和改造应用

做的是什么生意

A Milan-based technology company that buys digital businesses — Evernote, Remini, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Eventbrite and AOL among more than 50 acquisitions — then restructures them, often cutting teams and moving users onto subscriptions, and says it has never sold a material business.

启动资金：The July 2026 IPO priced about 58 million shares at $29, raising roughly $1.68B including selling shareholders, of which approximately $954M in gross proceeds went to Bending Spoons itself.

起因

Founded in Milan in 2013 by Luca Ferrari and co-founders with the $40,000 left after their failed diary app Evertale was liquidated, Bending Spoons built a playbook of acquiring underperforming apps and transforming them. By 2025 its portfolio included Evernote, Remini, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Brightcove, Eventbrite, StreamYard and AOL.

经过

After a decade of private acquisitions — an October 2025 round led by T. Rowe Price accounts valued the company near $11B — Bending Spoons went public. Its offering of about 58 million shares priced at $29, above the marketed $26–28 range, and trading began on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on 1 July 2026 under the ticker BSP, with Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Allen & Company leading the syndicate.

结果

Public and still buying: shares opened at $31 and closed the first session at $40.50, up about 40%, for a market value of roughly $25B. As of September 2026 the stock traded near $40 with a market capitalisation of about $23.8B.

可借鉴之处

私人并购公司上市时无需改变打法：Bending Spoons筹得9.54亿美元是为了买更多，而不是还债，且投资者首日溢价40%买入。