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Komoot Acquired

21 March 2025

Komoot was Germany’s most popular trail and mapping service. And it was just acquired by Bending Spoons, Italian “app-acquirer”. Ray Maker with the pessimistic (realistic) view:

Komoot Acquired: History Says This Won’t End Well

Bending Spoons owns WeTransfer and I enjoy using the product, so maybe I am not as pessimistic as if Komoot would’ve been acquired by a Silicon Valley private equity firm, but in all reality the writing is on the wall:

In all of these cases [previous acquisitions], Bending Spoons has simply taken companies that are generally software-as-a-service/platform-based, and then pulled the website into their existing IT infrastructure and laid almost everyone off.

Fantastic move, bosses, fantastic move. According to the comments, not even the employees knew about these negotiations… and you wonder why people start talking about guillotines again?

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