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October 8, 2026

Bending Spoons CEO on why M&A fails

The CEO, who has overseen acquisitions of more than 50 companies, thinks there’s a few reasons why deals don’t go well

Anne Sraders

4 min read

If there’s one company in Europe that understands the business of mergers and acquisitions, it's the newly-public Italian scaleup Bending Spoons.

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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