Bending Spoons Airtable Deal Expands Its Enterprise Software Roll-Up
The Next Web reported that Bending Spoons agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion, moving its acquisition playbook from consumer apps into enterprise workflow software.
Bending Spoons' deal for Airtable moves its roll-up strategy into software that many large companies use to run everyday work.
The Next Web reported that the Milan-based company agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion in cash, giving the buyer a much deeper position in enterprise workflow tools.
The transaction values Airtable at $1.285 billion on an enterprise-value basis.
Including Airtable's net cash, The Next Web put the implied equity value at about $2.25 billion, with both boards approving the deal and closing expected later this year if regulators clear it.
Airtable Gives The Roll-Up Enterprise Reach
Airtable is not another consumer productivity app in the Bending Spoons portfolio.
The company, founded in 2013, combines spreadsheet-style interfaces with database functions so teams can build no-code applications around their own processes.
That installed base explains the strategic step. more than 500,000 organisations use Airtable, including most of the largest US companies, and that annual recurring revenue rose more than 20% to about $480 million by June 2026.
According to The Next Web, the Airtable acquisition is Bending Spoons' first since its Nasdaq listing on 1 July.
Its earlier 2026 purchases of AOL and Eventbrite expanded the portfolio, but Airtable brings the company closer to the operational data layer that enterprises are trying to rebuild around AI tools.
Long-Term Investment Meets A Harder Playbook
Bending Spoons presents the purchase as patient ownership.
Luca Ferrari, the company's chief executive and co-founder, described Airtable as a brand reshaping how teams organise data and manage workflows, and the cited account says he pledged investment for the long run.
The operating pattern behind that promise is less gentle.
According to The Next Web, after Bending Spoons bought Evernote in 2022, Evernote cut 129 staff, moved more operations to Europe, raised prices and reduced the free tier.
The same source linked WeTransfer, acquired in 2024, to later planned cuts affecting about 75% of staff and to a briefly added file-terms clause that users read as opening a route to AI training before the clause was reversed.
For Airtable customers, the deal therefore creates a direct product question rather than only a change of ownership.
Those post-closing choices will determine how disruptive the acquisition becomes for Airtable customers.
