- Announced July 30, 2026: all-cash deal at a $1.285 billion enterprise value (≈$2.25B equity value).
- Expected to close later this year, subject to regulatory approval.
- Bending Spoons' stated model: acquire products, operate them indefinitely, and make them substantially more profitable.
The playbook, as seen across the portfolio
Bending Spoons owns Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Meetup, Eventbrite, AOL, komoot, StreamYard and others. Reporting on its past acquisitions describes a consistent pattern: deep staff cuts soon after closing, followed by significant price increases for the users who stay.
Most staff let go after acquisition; subscription prices rose sharply in the following year.
Same dynamic — restructuring first, then pricing changes for the users with nowhere to go.
Deal announced. None of this is guaranteed to repeat — but the users most exposed are the ones who can't leave.
The deeper your bases and the more your linked records hold your operations together, the weaker your negotiating position if plans and prices change.
Why leaving Airtable is harder than it looks
The obvious exit — CSV export → import into Notion — silently destroys the most valuable part of your base: linked records. Every relation between tables arrives as dead comma-separated text. For a base with a few thousand records, that's often tens of thousands of connections to rebuild by hand.
A safe exit needs two things: relations rebuilt automatically, and proof that every single one survived.
What we'd actually do this week
You don't have to migrate today. But it costs nothing to know your exit:
- Run the free preview. Connect read-only and see exactly what a migration would move — every table, record count, relation, and field mapping. No payment, no commitment.
- Keep the preview as your exit plan. If the acquisition goes the way previous ones did, you'll already know your path out — before renewal time, and before any API or plan changes make leaving harder.
- If you're ready now, migrate with proof. One payment. RelinkMove rebuilds every relation in Notion and compares the resulting relation graph against your Airtable source, link for link. If even one relation is missing, you get an automatic full refund.
Read-only connection · no subscription · money-back if any relation is dropped
Not moving to Notion? Get the same base as a SQLite file instead — real foreign keys, junction tables for every linked record, attachments included, same proof and refund guarantee, same price.
Questions
- Will Airtable shut down?
- There's no indication of that. Bending Spoons operates its products long-term — the historical risk isn't shutdown, it's pricing and plan changes for the users who stay.
- When would changes actually land?
- The deal is expected to close later this year. At previous portfolio companies, restructuring typically followed within months of closing — pricing changes came after that. That window is your planning time.
- Why Notion?
- It's where most Airtable teams we migrate actually go: databases with real relations, generous plans, and an ecosystem that isn't mid-acquisition. RelinkMove migrates Airtable → Notion specifically, relations intact.
- What if I'm not going to Notion?
- Choose the SQLite export instead: your whole base as a real relational database file — foreign keys, junction tables, attachments — verified with the same relation-graph proof, at the same price. It loads into Postgres, Supabase or any SQL tooling, so you can decide your destination later. Start with a free preview →
- Do I have to decide now?
- No. The free preview is exactly for this — see the full shape of your migration, then decide on your own schedule.