Bending Spoons said on 4 August 2026 that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal, putting a price tag of 1.285 billion dollars on the software platform it built into one of the better-known no-code tools on the market. The acquisition values Airtable's equity at about 2.25 billion dollars once net cash and cash holdings are taken into account.
For Howie Liu, the timing matters because the deal arrives just a little more than a month after Bending Spoons debuted on Nasdaq, turning a newly public company into a buyer almost immediately. That makes the Airtable acquisition the first clear sign of what the listing was meant to fuel: a larger push into owning major software platforms rather than simply operating one.
Airtable was founded in 2013 in Silicon Valley and is used by more than 500,000 organizations worldwide, including about 80% of Fortune 100 companies. By June 2026, the company said its annual recurring revenue had reached about 480 million dollars, up more than 20% from a year earlier. Those numbers help explain why the sale drew attention well beyond the companies themselves: Airtable is not being sold as a distressed asset, but as a business with scale, enterprise reach and growing revenue.
Luca Ferrari said Bending Spoons intends to invest in Airtable for the long term and described the company as a pioneer in the way teams organize data and manage core workflows. Ferrari also pointed to Airtable's revenue growth as proof of that momentum. The deal itself is not closed yet, though, and the handoff will only happen after customary regulatory approvals and other conditions are satisfied.
That leaves one question hanging over an agreement that is already final in principle: how quickly the approvals move. If regulators clear the transaction without delay, Bending Spoons will add another large platform to a portfolio it has been building aggressively, and Airtable will enter a new phase under owners who are betting that its mix of no-code applications and workflow tools still has room to expand.
