Bending Spoons S.p.A. is a
technology company, founded in 2013 and based in
Milan,
Italy. The company is known primarily for mobile apps that it develops or acquires.[2]
Immuni
On 17 April 2020, the
Italian government released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's official
COVID-19 contact tracing app,
Immuni.[3][4] The app was released on 1 June 2020.[5] It was initially released in four
regions, then countrywide.[6]
The app did not receive significant adoption and successfully tracked less than 1% of the total confirmed positive cases reported during the period it was active.[7] The most commonly cited reason for not using the app was the lack of perceived effectiveness.[8]
Immuni was decommissioned on December 31, 2022.[9]
Acquisitions
In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC[10] and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model.[11] In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.[12]
In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire
Evernote.[13] The acquisition was concluded in January 2023.[14] In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff and announced it would relocate to Europe to be closer to Bending Spoons' headquarters.[15]
In January 2024, Bending Spoons acquired Mosaic Group, a mobile app developer. The acquisition also involved the layoff of all 330 existing staff.[16]
Also in January 2024, Bending Spoons acquired
Meetup, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities.[17][18]
In April 2024, Bending Spoons announced that it would acquire
Hopin, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard.[19]