The IPO Buzz: Bending Spoons (BSP Proposed) of Italy Unveils $1.6 Billion IPO for Next Week

Talk about a manic Monday.  Bending Spoons(BSP Proposed) unveiled its $1.6 billion IPO after the closing bell with plans to price the deal next week. The holding company, based in Milan, Italy, owns a portfolio of online household names, including AOL, Eventbrite and Vimeo. Bending Spoons’ IPO was the fourth big IPO launched today – Monday, June 22, 2026 – for pricing next week to raise a total of $2.7 billion before Wall Street takes a break for the Fourth of July holiday. This year, the United States will be celebrating 250 years of independence.

Bending Spoons S.p.A. (BSP Proposed) is the largest IPO in next week’s line-up: 57.97 million shares at $26.00 to $28.00 to raise $1.57 billion, if priced at the $27.00 mid-point of its range. The company is offering 34.4 million shares and the selling shareholders are offering 23.6 million shares. Bending Spoons will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the selling shareholders’ stock, the prospectus said.

At pricing, Bending Spoons would have a market cap of about $8.8 billion.

Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Allen & Company are the global coordinators of Bending Spoons’ IPO.

Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Securities, Jefferies and Evercore ISI are joint book-runners, according to the prospectus. The joint book-running team  includes BNP Paribas, Mizuho, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit Capital Markets and Banca Akros.

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Bending Spoons said it will use some of the IPO’s proceeds to make acquisitions. The company was founded in 2013. The company has completed more than 50 acquisitions to date.

In the prospectus, Bending Spoons described its business:

“We buy digital businesses, transform them and optimize their operations to improve their earnings, and we reinvest to keep the compounding cycle going.”

In March 2026, Bending Spoons’ portfolio of digital companies served more than 500 million monthly active users and more than 9 million monthly paying customers, according to the prospectus.

Bending Spoons is not profitable: Net loss of $84.54 million on revenue of $1.65 billion for the 12 months that ended on March 31, 2026, according to the prospectus.

(For more information about this company, please check the IPO Calendar and the individual IPO Profile found on the IPOScoop.com website.)

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