Sifted sat down with founder Luca Ferrari and investor Baillie Gifford as the Italian scaleup debuted on the public markets.

Buying busted apps made Bending Spoons’s four cofounders billionaires. Now their stakes have collectively jumped to $8.9 billion after the Milan-based startup scrap yard listed on…

Bending Spoons priced its Nasdaq IPO above range, raising $1.62B at a valuation near $20B. The Italian software acquirer owns Evernote, Vimeo, and AOL.

Bending Spoons is set to debut on the US Nasdaq market today (1 July), after raising $1.68bn in its public listing.