the serial acquirer Market Observatory · 2026-Q3

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Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo 2025

368.7 EUR m of annual revenue, bought in 2025. What was paid, per unit of that revenue — and where the figure comes from.

In 2025, Bending Spoons S.p.A. acquired Vimeo — a company with 368.7 EUR m of annual revenue — and paid 3.26x that revenue. The basis is measured. The revenue was reported in USD and is converted to euro at the ECB annual reference rate; the multiple itself is not converted. Guess first if you like; the answer and its source follow.

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Annual revenue
368.7 EUR m
Acquired
2025
Buyer’s deals that year
6
Sector
not disclosed
3.00x
0.50x15x
BuyerAcquired companyRevenue, EUR mYearPrice paidBasis
Bending Spoons S.p.A.Vimeo US368.720253.26xmeasured
Basis — measured: consideration and revenue both stated in the acquisition note — nothing computed but the division. Revenue converted from USD to euro at the ECB annual reference rate; the multiple is a ratio within one currency and is not converted.

Where this price sits

Among the 28 single-company prices in the register, 3.26x sits at the 59th percentile — above the register median of 3.14x. Bending Spoons’s own 5 disclosed prices run from 1.08x–3.26x with a median of 2.10x; this one is its dearest. The buyer made 6 acquisitions that year, of which this is one of the 2 with a usable price.

What this does not support

Source

Read from the buyer’s filed account: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2004711/000110465926079884/tm2613674-14_424b4.htm. Nothing is modelled or estimated — method and limits.

Related

All of Bending Spoons’s acquisitions on file · Brightcove (2025, 1.08x) · AOL (AOL Holdco I LLC) (2026, 2.30x) · TeamSystem · Multifatture S.r.l. (IT, property-management software) (3.14x) · every deal on file

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Figures as at 2026-09-08. Every number on this page comes from a filed account or a company’s own published report — how, and what it does not support.