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Bending Spoons Targets Nasdaq at $23bn After Decade of Distressed-Brand Acquisitions

7/5/2026

Bending Spoons, an Italian internet company that built a $23bn empire by acquiring struggling technology brands over more than a decade, is pursuing a Nasdaq listing.

The move places the company's accumulated portfolio before public investors for the first time, capping a deal-making era that transformed a domestic Italian start-up into a global internet business.

How the Portfolio Came Together The company's asset base consists of brands that were struggling before Bending Spoons acquired them.

That inflow — distressed digital assets absorbed into a single Italian-founded operation — has continued for more than a decade.

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