Vimeo and AOL Owner Bending Spoons Files to Go Public in US

Bending Spoons, an Italian tech company that acquires software businesses, is planning to go public.

The company, whose holdings include Vimeo, Eventbrite and AOL, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) Monday (June 8) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

According to the filing, Bending Spoons had net income of $27.5 million and revenue of $601 million for the first three months of this year. That’s compared with a net loss of $112 million and revenue of $259 million in 2025.

“As we transform AOL, Eventbrite, and Vimeo, and continue to optimize our other businesses, 2026 is shaping up to be strong,” the company wrote in the filing.

“However, our focus remains on maximizing our prospects not for next quarter or even next year, but for the long run. We see a vast opportunity ahead.”

The filing adds that Bending Spoons has identified more than 1,000 digital businesses as potential acquisition targets, representing close to $400 billion in aggregate estimated annual revenue in 2025.

“With AI as a potentially powerful tailwind, we believe we’re well positioned to grow for years to come,” the filing continued.

A report on the filing by Bloomberg News cites a source familiar with the matter who said Bending Spoons is aiming for a valuation between $20 billion and $22 billion.

Bending Spoons acquired AOL in October of last year, weeks after reports that former owner Yahoo had put the one-time internet giant up for sale.

“AOL is an iconic, beloved business that’s in good health, has stood the test of time, and we believe has unexpressed potential,” Bending Spoons CEO and Co-Founder Luca Ferrari said in a press release at the time.

In other IPO news, PYMNTS wrote Monday that real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Securitize has moved closer to becoming a publicly traded company now that the SEC has declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 for a planned business combination between Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate Cantor Equity Partners II.

Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald announced the proposed business combination last fall, saying that it values Securitize at a pre-money $1.25 billion equity value and will help the company as it tries to “tokenize the world.”