--- title: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with... description: Bending Spoons, the Italian tech company that recently debuted on Nasdaq, has agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the no-code platform at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-with-1-3-billion-airtable-deal-dg4x6qune twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3 billion Airtable deal | daily.dev og:description: Bending Spoons, the Italian tech company that recently debuted on Nasdaq, has agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the no-code platform at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-with-1-3-billion-airtable-deal-dg4x6qune og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dG4x6QUNE.png og:image:alt: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3 billion Airtable deal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3 billion Airtable deal **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bending Spoons, the Italian tech company that recently debuted on Nasdaq, has agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the no-code platform at $1.285 billion. Airtable, founded in 2013, combines spreadsheet and database capabilities to help companies build applications without coding expertise. The deal marks Bending Spoons' first post-IPO acquisition, following earlier purchases of AOL and Eventbrite this year. The transaction is expected to close by end of 2025, pending regulatory approval. Bending Spoons is known for acquiring and restructuring digital businesses using a private equity-style model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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