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8/4/2026 at 1:38:40 PM

Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $2.2B

 https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/

by tonylucas

8/4/2026 at 4:20:08 PM

With my free account there, I've done some wildly powerful things for tracking inventory and sales data for a small hobby/business.

Surely I'm about to lose this.

by Chihuahua0633

8/4/2026 at 1:39:10 PM

(title is potentially inaccurate, reporting and press release shows acquisition price is $1.285B)

Condolences to the Airtable team, get those resumes ready.

Related:

Bending Spoons has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167977 - August 2026

Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166340 - August 2026

Low-code software startup Airtable worth $11B in new funding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541946 - December 2021 (0 comments)

Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26467853 - March 2021 (0 comments)

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470693 - September 2020 (12 comments)

Airtable CEO Howie Liu on the continued importance of getting a ‘unicorn’ valuation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210584 - February 2019 (77 comments)

Airtable, maker of a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18460902 - November 2018 (145 comments)

Airtable gets $52M in funding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16594743 - March 2018 (191 comments)

Airtable lands $7.6M round to help build simple, extensible database apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797468 - June 2015 (0 comments)

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