Airtable Exit: Bending Spoons to Acquire in 2026
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Bending Spoons plans to acquire Airtable stock before it will ever IPO.
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Notable Airtable News
08/04/2026: Bending Spoons to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion
10/13/2025: Airtable Hires A CTO From OpenAI
11/26/2024: Airtable Turns Cash Flow Positive, Eyes IPO
07/30/2024: Airtable acquires onboarding startup Dopt
Older news…
About Airtable
Airtable is a cloud collaboration software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. Its main product is a spreadsheet-like tool that allows users to create, organize, and manage team data in a real-time flexible, and collaborative manner.
The signature product’s primary functionalities include:
- creating and customizing data fields
- enabling users to easily add records, and
- visualizing data in various formats
The key user benefits of Airtable are its versatility, collaboration features, and integrations. Users can tailor use cases to their specific needs, making them suitable for various applications, such as project management, content creation, and customer relationship management (CRM).
Airtable integrates with popular productivity software such as Google Drive and Dropbox to import and export data file attachments.
The Airtable collaboration space shines when users share data and build no-code custom apps across workstreams. For example, different teams can assemble and share a customer list with several data fields and use it to design a sales email funnel or to shape a new product.
Collaboration software is competitive, but each has a specific niche or nuance. Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Notion, and Monday.com are all competitors.
The company was founded in 2013 by Howie Liu (CEO), Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas. Its headquarters are in San Francisco.
Here is an excellent introductory video showing examples of the software’s uses.
Pre-Acquisition Ownership
Airtable was a venture-backed late-stage startup. Its equity owners included the founders, employees, and venture capital firms.
The company conducted several venture capital funding rounds. The last was a Series F completed in December 2021. The enormous round raised $735 million.
Airtable raised $1.36 billion before the acquisition.
Notable venture capital investors included Benchmark, Box Group (Aaron Levy), CRV, Coatue, CrunchFund, D1 Capital, Data Collective, Evolution VC Partners, Franklin Templeton, Freestyle Capital, Greenoaks Capital, ICONIQ, J.P. Morgan, Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, T. Rowe Price, Thrive Capital, Aaron Levy, and Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher).
Funding Rounds
| Round | Date | Est. Valuation | Raise Amount | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series F | 12/12/21 | $11.73B | $735.00M | $187.28 |
| Series E | 03/14/21 | $5.77B | $270.00M | $106.97 |
| Series D | 09/13/20 | $2.59B | $185.00M | $56.54 |
| Series C | 11/14/18 | $1.10B | $100.00M | $26.73 |
| Series B | 03/14/18 | $152.00M | $52.00M | $4.86 |
| Series A | 06/28/15 | $30.00M | $7.60M | $1.35 |
| Series A1 | 02/24/15 | $12.80M | $3.00M | $1.22 |
| Seed Round | 03/12/13 | $6.50M | $2.00M | $0.69 |
| Source: Caplight |
Airtable Valuation
The final Airtable takeover valuation was approximately $2.25 billion, or an enterprise value of $1.285 billion (including debt).
The final confirmed pre-acquisition valuation was set in a December 2021 Series F funding round at about $11.7 billion.
Data from pre-IPO marketplace Hiive* indicated the valuation had fallen dramatically since the Series F.
IPO Potential
The Airtable IPO date will never arrive. Bending Spoons will acquire Airtable.
The Information reported in November 2024 that Airtable has turned cash flow positive and is growing at 30%.
CFO Ambereen Toubassy told The Information an IPO was possible in 2025, but it never progressed.
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How to Buy Airtable Stock
Investors can buy Bending Spoons stock (symbol: BSP) going forward to own an equity stake indirectly after the acquisition closes.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Is Airtable Stock Publicly Traded?
No. Airtable is not publicly traded. It was acquired by Bending Spoons.
What is the Airtable Stock Price?
Airtable is an acquired company, so there is no public Airtable stock price. Use the Bending Spoons (BSP) stock price going forward.
What is the Airtable Stock Symbol?
There is no Airtable stock symbol because it was acquired by Bending Spoons. The Bending Spoons stock symbol is BSP.
News Archive
09/18/2023: Airtable lays off 27% of workforce
12/13/2021: Announcing Airtable’s Series F Funding
03/15/2021: Airtable raises $270 million for expansion
09/14/2020: Airtable raises $185M
11/15/2018: Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
Conclusion
Investors get excited when they identify companies riding extraordinary macroeconomic trends (SaaS, online collaboration).
This can lead us to private companies positioning to profit from massive opportunities.
Buying the stock early on can often prove difficult for retail investors.
Though pre-IPO investing platforms have opened more opportunities, private equity investing is still primarily reserved for the ultra-wealthy, requiring millions to invest in seed and early funding rounds for disruptive companies.
So if you decide to pursue IPO shares or early equity, maintain reasonable expectations.
Airtable is no longer a venture-backed startup. Investors interested in the company can invest in Bending Spoons stock going forward.
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Craig Stephens founded Access IPOs in 2016 to help ordinary investors explore IPO and pre-IPO opportunities. He also manages the Access Club, a membership community for IPO and startup investors. Craig studied Finance at Michigan State University and lives in Northern Virginia. Learn more about Craig.
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