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Bending Spoons renews tech scholarship for women with €100,000 commitment

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bending Spoons today opened applications for the 2026 edition of its Women in Computer Science Scholarship. The program offers twenty scholarships, each worth €5,000, to university students pursuing technology degrees across Europe and the United Kingdom. This year’s recipients will also be invited to a two-day networking event in Milan in October, fully covered by the company.

The initiative is part of a broader set of programs Bending Spoons runs to recognize and support the next generation of technology talent, including merit-based scholarships, networking events, and student competitions.

"The students of computer science today will define what the field looks like in the years ahead," said Eva Milenkovska, talent manager at Bending Spoons and lead of the scholarship initiative. "This scholarship is about recognizing the women who are pushing themselves to excel and to help shape the future of the industry."

This is the fourth time Bending Spoons has offered this specific scholarship, with past recipients advancing their studies and bringing their own perspectives to the field. “Growing up, I rarely saw women in tech. Now, I want to be the reason someone else believes they belong here,” said Violeta Kastreva, a 2025 scholarship recipient who is now a research fellow at ETH Zürich.

Applications for the 2026 Bending Spoons Women in Computer Science Scholarship are open until May 17, 2026. Full details can be found on the scholarship website.

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons acquires and transforms digital businesses. It owns AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, StreamYard, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and many others. The company’s products have served more than a billion people, with over 400 million monthly active users and 7 million paying customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises.

Bending Spoons aims to hold forever, and has never sold an acquired business. After an acquisition, the company typically invests in an ambitious effort to overhaul the technology, redesign the user interface, accelerate the release of new features, optimize marketing and monetization, and rearchitect the organization for improved long-term performance.

At the company's core is a relentless focus on talent density and workplace excellence. Bending Spoons received around 800,000 job applications in 2025 alone, with a 0.04% job offer rate, and has numerous first-place finishes in Great Place to Work awards.

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