Bending Spoons, first iOS app developer of Europe, opens the capital to the entry of three new shareholders: H14, Family Office Italian shareholder of Fininvest, NUO Capital, holding of investments of the PAO/Cheng family of Hong Kong, and StarTip, a vehicle 100% controlled by Tamburi Investments Partners which invests only in companies active in the digital sector. The three investors acquire a total stake of 5,7%.
“We think we have found, in our new shareholders, medium-long term partners who embrace our ambition to become a technological company of excellence worldwide and to do so from Italy – comments Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons – We are confident that these investors will be able to support us in this journey by making their great experience available to Bending Spoons".
Bending Spoons, which has its main market in the United States, closed 2018 with revenues of 45 million euros. Its apps have been downloaded over 200 million times and downloads are growing at the rate of 200 a day across devices iOS. Born in 2013 in Copenhagen from the idea of four Italian engineers, the company moved to Italy the following year, and today has more than 100 employees from over 15 countries.
"We have known and admired Bending Spoons and its founders for years - explains Giovanni Tamburi, president and CEO of Tip - We are truly very pleased and proud to be able to participate in this operation, which can further strengthen an undoubted excellence of our country, with a significant international presence in one sector, that of app, already in very strong development, also in perspective”.
According to Tommaso Paoli, CEO of NUO Capital, Bending Spoons is “the most innovative company on the Italian scene. We are certain that the know-how of Bending Spoons will have the opportunity to benefit from our strong relationships in the Asian continent and in particular in China, by far the most advanced digital society in the world”.
