Bending Spoons aims to raise up to $1.6 billion in IPO, bringing AOL back to public markets

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Milan-based Bending Spoons aims to raise up to about $1.6 billion in an initial public offering set to price and trade next week. The company owns the Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, Eventbrite, and AOL businesses, following a digital brand roll-up model that acquires underperforming software and app businesses and revives them through product optimization, subscription monetization, and heavy use of AI and data science. The IPO marks the return of AOL to the public markets, evoking memories of the dot-com era when AOL's $183 billion merger with Time Warner in 2001 became one of the most disastrous deals in corporate history. After the bubble burst, Time Warner spun off AOL in 2009, and it was later acquired by Verizon in 2015 before being sold to Apollo Global Management in 2021, which then agreed to sell AOL to Bending Spoons in 2025.

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Bending Spoons is the company going public, raising up to $1.6 billion in its IPO.

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Bending Spoons is the company going public, raising up to $1.6 billion in its IPO.

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