# Bending Spoons

> Bending Spoons is a VC fund in Milan backing Health Care and Mental Health. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/3175130
- Website: http://bendingspoons.com
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/wearebendingspoons

Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Mental Health | 1 | 100% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francesco Patarnello | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-patarnello |
| Luca Ferrari | Co-Founder & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-ferrari |
| Luca Querella | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-querella |
| Matteo Danieli | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matteo-danieli |
| Tomasz Greber | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomasz-greber |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Serenis Health | Serenis Health provides video-based psychotherapy, coaching, and psychological support courses. It believes that the internet is critical to increasing access to mental health care. It makes use of data and digital tools to improve the efficacy of therapies. But, unlike other platforms, it is also a medical center, which means it is responsible forcourse quality and must meet the same standards as any polyclinic. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-seeds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EXOR N.V.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Bending Spoons invest in?

Bending Spoons invests primarily in Health Care and Mental Health startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Bending Spoons?

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### Who are the partners at Bending Spoons?

The team at Bending Spoons includes Francesco Patarnello (Co-Founder), Luca Ferrari (Co-Founder & CEO) and Luca Querella (Co-Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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