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Bending Spoons has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion, the Milan-based holding company announced on September 10, 2026. Counting Miro's net cash, the all-cash deal implies an equity value of roughly $1.79 billion, and it closes days after Bending Spoons completed its purchase of Airtable.

Key takeaways

Miro brings about $600 million in annual recurring revenue, nearly 90% of it from business and enterprise customers, across 250,000 customer organizations.
Certain Miro shareholders agreed to roll $295 million of their proceeds into newly issued Bending Spoons equity, keeping them invested in the acquirer rather than cashing out entirely.
Both boards approved unanimously and the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, pending regulatory clearance.

What Bending Spoons is actually buying

Miro's numbers describe an enterprise business rather than a prosumer tool. The company reports more than 100 million users, of whom nearly 4 million pay, and more than 750 customers each contributing over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue. That concentration at the top of the account list is what makes the $600 million ARR figure durable enough to underwrite a $1.355 billion price.

The product started in 2011 as RealtimeBoard, a shared whiteboard, and has since been repositioned as an AI-first canvas with assistants, automated workflows and prototyping built in. Its connectors pull context from GitHub, Jira and Slack, which places it against Canva, Microsoft and Figma rather than against other whiteboards.

Chief executive and co-founder Andrey Khusid framed the sale as a continuation rather than an exit, describing Miro as a workspace teams run their most important work through and saying the best version of the product is still ahead. He thanked customers and staff across what he called fifteen years of work.

How the acquirer's model works

Bending Spoons buys digital businesses, rebuilds them, and keeps them. Its own description of the strategy is unusually blunt about the mechanics: reorganize teams, overhaul technology, redesign interfaces, accelerate product development, and improve marketing and monetization, then reinvest the resulting earnings into the next acquisition. The company says it has never sold a material business in more than a decade of doing this.

Chief executive and co-founder Luca Ferrari said welcoming a product integrated into the workflows of over 250,000 organizations was a privilege and no small responsibility, and committed to investing substantially in performance, reliability and the functionality that supports collaborative work after closing. He restated the intent to own and operate Miro for the long term.

The portfolio that Miro joins is eclectic: Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Tractive, Vimeo and WeTransfer. Several arrived as well-known brands whose growth had flattened, which is the pattern the model is built around.

Why two deals in five weeks

Bending Spoons has the balance sheet to move quickly. It listed on Nasdaq under the ticker BSP in July, raising $1.68 billion, and Italy's export credit agency SACE subsequently backed a €500 million loan earmarked for acquisitions. The Airtable deal, agreed on August 4 at a $1.285 billion enterprise value, closed the week before the Miro agreement was signed.

Buying Airtable and Miro within weeks assembles something more coherent than two logos. One is a structured database that teams build operational workflows on; the other is the unstructured surface where that work gets planned. Both are now controlled by an owner that treats AI agents as central to its transformation playbook rather than as a feature to bolt on — a pattern visible elsewhere in the market, as when Shopify acquired Tailwind Labs.

What to watch next

The open question for Miro's paying users is what Bending Spoons' standard transformation means for a tool embedded in enterprise processes. Its playbook explicitly includes enhanced monetization, which at 4 million paying seats implies pricing and packaging changes. Regulatory approval is the gating item before the fourth quarter, and the two companies will operate independently until then.

FAQ

How much is Bending Spoons paying for Miro?

The enterprise value is $1.355 billion in an all-cash transaction, which implies an equity value of approximately $1.79 billion once Miro's net cash is included. Some Miro shareholders are reinvesting $295 million of their proceeds into new Bending Spoons shares.

Will Miro keep operating as a separate product?

The companies will operate independently until the deal closes, expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. Bending Spoons said it acquires businesses to own and operate them long term and plans to invest in performance, reliability and collaborative functionality, and it has not announced a shutdown or merger of the product.

What else does Bending Spoons own?

Its main businesses include Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Tractive, Vimeo and WeTransfer. The company says it has never sold a material business, and it completed the Airtable acquisition the week before announcing the Miro agreement.

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NextSlide, a startup built around turning raw notes into finished presentation decks, has been acquired by OpenAI. TechCrunch reported the deal on August 8, and NextSlide has confirmed its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

The disclosure lagged the transaction by months. Reporting indicates the acquisition actually closed in early 2026, becoming public only when NextSlide updated its own website and posted on LinkedIn around August 7 and 8. Financial terms were never disclosed, consistent with how OpenAI has handled its smaller purchases.

The Company

Ahmed Beshry founded NextSlide in mid-2025. The product took source material a person already had — meeting notes, a research summary, a rough outline — and returned structured slides with consistent visual treatment.

Deck generation is a deceptively hard target. Producing fluent sentences is largely a solved problem; deciding what belongs on a slide is not. The system has to judge how much text a single frame can carry, when a chart communicates faster than a paragraph, how sections should be ordered for an audience that cannot rewind, and how to hold typography and spacing consistent across dozens of frames. Those are layout and editorial decisions, and they fail visibly when a model gets them wrong.

Buying the Team, Not the Product

NextSlide is not continuing as a standalone service. Its engineers moved to OpenAI, which is the shape most of the company's recent acquisitions have taken.

The logic favors people over code. A team that spent a year shipping deck generation to real users has accumulated knowledge that does not transfer through a repository — which layout heuristics survive contact with messy input, where users abandon a generated draft, which failures are tolerable and which destroy trust. Rebuilding that from scratch costs more than acquiring it.

Landing in Microsoft's Territory

Deck generation is a capability Microsoft has been building into PowerPoint through Copilot, and the two companies are increasingly selling to the same person doing the same task despite their commercial entanglement.

Their advantages differ. Microsoft owns the destination: presentations already live in PowerPoint, next to corporate templates, brand assets and permissions that enterprises will not abandon casually. The counterargument favoring OpenAI is about origin — the research and analysis that becomes a deck is increasingly produced in a chat session, and adding slide output to that session is a shorter path than moving the thinking into a slide editor.

Unanswered Questions

OpenAI has not said what it will ship from this, when, or on which pricing tiers. Acquired teams are frequently redirected to other priorities, and nothing about the deal guarantees a presentation feature reaches users at all.

The quieter signal is the timing itself. A deal that closed in early 2026 and surfaced in August means OpenAI had been staffing this problem for months without saying so, and the eventual announcement came from the acquired company rather than the acquirer. For anyone tracking where these tools are headed next, the public roadmap is a lagging indicator of what has already been bought.

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