{"id":645200,"date":"2024-11-25T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bending-spoons-is-taking-video-platform-brightcove-private-in-233m-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:20:25","slug":"bending-spoons-is-taking-video-platform-brightcove-private-in-233m-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bending-spoons-is-taking-video-platform-brightcove-private-in-233m-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brightcove<\/a>, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology<\/a> company Bending Spoons<\/a> in an all-cash deal valued at $233 million. <\/p>\n

The transaction prices Brightcove at $4.45 per share, translating to a 90% premium on its 60-day average. <\/p>\n

Founded in 2004, Brightcove develops tools and services for creating, hosting, streaming, marketing, and monetizing video content, with clients including Marriott Hotels, Ford, and Johnson & Johnson. The company, which went public on the Nasdaq in 2011, hasn\u2019t had a fruitful time of late, with its most recent Q3 earnings report revealing<\/a> revenues were down 2% and net losses had widened by 22% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Board considered the long-term path for Brightcove, we unanimously determined that this transaction represents the best opportunity to maximize the value of the business and deliver compelling, certain, and immedia<\/a>te cash value to our stockholders,\u201d Brightcove board chair Diane Hessan said in a statement<\/a> issued today.<\/p>\n

Bending Spoons, for its part, is a Baillie Gifford-backed mobile app<\/a> development company that has become known for various notable acquisitions in recent years. This includes Evernote, which it bought in 2022 before laying off 129 of its employees; and WeTransfer, which it bought back in July shortly before sacking 75% of its 350 workforce. Elsewhere, Bending Spoons bought<\/a> popular video app Filmic in 2022, before laying off the entirety of the staff a year later, and shortly after closing its acquisition<\/a> of community-building platform Meetup in January this year, Bending Spoons\u2019 co-founder and CEO Luca Ferrari announced it was \u201csignificantly reducing\u201d Meetup\u2019s U.S. headcount. <\/p>\n

So there is a clear trend from the past couple of years that might not bode well for Brightcove. <\/p>\n

Its latest acquisition signals Bending Spoons\u2019 entry to the enterprise SaaS market, and represents its first ever acquisition of a publicly-traded company. Ferrari said that Brightcove is a \u201crespected name in the streaming technology space,\u201d according to the press release. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Bending Spoons acquires a business, we do so with the intention of owning and operating it indefinitely,\u201d Ferrari said. \u201cWith this in mind, we\u2019re excited about building on the strong work of the current team, and ensuring Brightcove thrives for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2025, and is still subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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