Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian
technology company
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, founded in 2013 and based in
Milan
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. The company is known primarily for mobile applications that it develops or acquires.
Immuni
On 17 April 2020, the
Italian government
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released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's official
COVID-19 contact tracing app,
Immuni. The app was released on 1 June 2020. It was initially released in four
regions
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, then countrywide.
The app did not receive significant adoption and successfully tracked less than 1% of the total confirmed positive cases reported during the period it was active. The most commonly cited reasons for not using the app were the lack of perceived effectiveness and major technical issues.
Immuni was decommissioned on December 31, 2022.
Acquisitions
In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model. In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.
In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire
Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and task management, task-management application software, application developed by the Evernote Corporation.
History
Evernote was acquired by the Italian technology company Bending Spoons in November 2022.
Usage
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. The acquisition was concluded in January 2023. In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff and announced it would relocate to Europe to be closer to Bending Spoons' headquarters.
Bending Spoons made a series of acquisitions in 2024. In January, it acquired the assets of New York City-based mobile app developer Mosaic Group from
IAC Inc.; subsequently, Mosaic's entire workforce of 330 staff members was laid off, as they were not part of the acquisition. Also that month, Bending Spoons acquired
Meetup
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, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities. In April, the company announced that it would acquire
Hopin
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, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard. Later in July, the company announced it had acquired digital publishing platform
Issuu
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. Also in July, the company agreed to acquire the Dutch file transfer service
WeTransfer
WeTransfer B.V. is a Dutch Internet-based computer file transfer service company that was founded in 2009 and based in Amsterdam. In 2024, the company was acquired by Bending Spoons.
History Early history
WeTransfer was founded in 2009 by Rinke ...
, then announced in September they were laying off 75% of the company's workforce. In November, the company agreed to acquire video platform company
Brightcove
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for $233 million.
In March 2025, Bending Spoons acquired
Komoot.
See also
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COVID-19 apps
COVID-19 apps include mobile applications, mobile-software applications for digital contact tracing, digital contact-tracing—i.e. the process of identifying persons ("contacts") who may have been in contact with an infected individual—depl ...
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