{"id":1026249,"date":"2026-08-05T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026249"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:54:06","slug":"bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-with-1-3-billion-airtable-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-with-1-3-billion-airtable-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3 billion Airtable deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, marking the Italian \u200ctechnology company&#8217;s \u2060first \u2060acquisition since its Nasdaq debut last month. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2013, Airtable offers a software platform that combines spreadsheet and database capabilities, allowing companies to build applications and manage operational workflows without coding \u2060expertise. <\/p>\n<p>Bending Spoons \u200chas built a reputation for acquiring and restructuring digital businesses, \u2060pursuing a strategy that blends technology operations with a private equity-style acquisition model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, marking the Italian \u200ctechnology company&#8217;s \u2060first \u2060acquisition since its Nasdaq debut last month. Founded in 2013, Airtable offers a software platform that combines spreadsheet and database capabilities, allowing companies to build applications and manage operational workflows without coding \u2060expertise. Bending Spoons \u200chas built a reputation for acquiring and restructuring digital businesses, \u2060pursuing a strategy that blends technology operations with a private equity-style acquisition model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026272,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026249\/revisions\/1026272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}