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Italian technology company founded in 2013 that has acquired more than 50 technology firms, including Harvest, Evernote, Vimeo and WeTransfer.
Airtable product lead Alessandro Savarese says a large portion of the pre-acquisition team leaves by week's end after the Bending Spoons acquisition. He commits to monthly core releases, AI features and account-level controls.
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Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33, a $330 million private placement that lifts its stake to 4%. CNBC reported the shares rose 35% on the filing, so the $33 price was set before the market reacted.
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Bending Spoons paid 2.7 times ARR for Airtable and 2.3 times for Miro, signed 37 days apart, according to SaaStr. SaaStr calls it a likely caller for mid-sized B2B software companies, but two deals from one buyer are a thin benchmark.
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Bending Spoons hired 286 people from 800,000 applications last year, Entrepreneur reported, citing Fortune. The figures describe a staged screen and cannot show that the warning about its "controversial" principles improved who applied.
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Bending Spoons has bought two of the decade's better-known B2B software brands inside about a month, and in both the cash the companies had banked went back to sellers at face value while the growth rate moved the price.
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OpenAI and Anthropic raised more than $200 billion of the record $515.8 billion invested in US startups through September, PitchBook-NVCA data shows. With IPOs slipping, a venture-backed vendor that exits is likelier to be sold, often below its last private price.
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Endeavor Catalyst closed its fifth fund at $320 million, taking assets under management past $850 million. For founders outside the big tech hubs it is real money behind two gates: admission to Endeavor's network and a lead investor willing to set the terms.
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Bending Spoons says it has fixed more than 100 Vimeo bugs and shipped over 50 improvements since its $1.38 billion purchase of the platform. Teams running corporate video can build on what has shipped, but headcount and pricing are still open questions.
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SaaStr says one estimate puts AI-agent access to Salesforce, Atlassian and HubSpot at up to $240,000 a year, for API calls it never paid for. Its own revenue agent proposed mirroring the data into a $5 Postgres database, so vendors are now pricing against a buyer's cost of calling them less.
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A Fortune column says SaaS incumbents answered collapsed multiples with record debt and buybacks presented as AI strategy. It quantifies the de-rating precisely and leaves the debt unsized at the five companies it names.
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Jonathan Weil's essay on the debt-funded software roll-up behind AOL and Vimeo calls the numbers hocus-pocus, and the testable part of it is his claim that rising rates will force the acquisitions to stop.
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A single month of trading undid eight months of AI-disruption pricing in B2B software. That is a multiple moving, not a business changing. The winners were sorted by whose meter the agent workloads run through.
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Bending Spoons is buying its second discounted collaboration platform in five weeks. Some Miro shareholders are putting part of their proceeds into stock of a buyer the public market has just marked up.
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The payments company says it will be IPO-ready by December and that this is still not the time, and against roughly $132 billion of large offerings already on the year's tape, its $650 million of private funding looks like the cheaper trade.
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A UK consultancy says its invoicing software went up more than sixteenfold after Bending Spoons took over. The pricing model changed a year ago; customers on annual terms are only finding out now.
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