Luca Ferrari, Francesco Patarnello, and Matteo Danieli, worked on an unsuccessful venture-funded product startup called Evertale. They were left with $40,000, which became the seed capital for Bending Spoons in June 2013, also founded in Copenhagen.[5][6][7] The company name was inspired by a scene from the science fiction movieThe Matrix.[5][8] The company moved to Milan in 2014.[7]
On 17 April 2020, theItalian government released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's officialCOVID-19 contact tracing app,Immuni.[9][10] The app was released on 1 June 2020.[11] It was initially released in fourregions, then countrywide.[12]
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.[13] The most commonly cited reasons for not using the app were the lack of perceived effectiveness and major technical issues.[14]
Immuni was decommissioned on December 31, 2022.[15]
In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC[16] and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model.[17] In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.[18]
In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquireEvernote.[19] The acquisition was concluded in January 2023.[20] 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.[21]
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 fromIAC Inc.; subsequently, Mosaic's entire workforce of 330 staff members was laid off, as they were not part of the acquisition.[22][23] Also that month, Bending Spoons acquiredMeetup, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities.[24][25] In April, the company announced that it would acquireHopin, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard.[26] Later in July, the company announced it had acquired digital publishing platformIssuu.[27] Also in July, the company agreed to acquire the Dutch file transfer serviceWeTransfer, then announced in September they were laying off 75% of the company's workforce.[28][29] In November, the company agreed to acquire video platform companyBrightcove for $233 million.[30]
In 2025, Bending Spoons acquired several companies, includingKomoot[31], professional services software providerHarvest and later, in September,Vimeo for $1.38 billion.[32][33]
