“Shocked” employees: Komoot is sold

Komoot is sold: The Potsdam company behind the hiking app of the same name will in future be part of the Italian company Bending Spoons, both parties write in a message. The companies are silent about the financial framework of the takeover.

Komoot co-founder Markus Hallermann sees the sale as necessary for the future perspective of the app: “What has brought us here will not bring us to the next level,” he writes in the message. “The scaling of a company requires a different mindset and skills than building a company.”

Employee “shocked” according to the report

Bending Spoons is an Italian company that has bought several well -known applications together in recent years, including Wetransfer and Streamyard. Bending Spoons portfolio also includes Evernote and Meetup. Bending Spoons are rigoros in part in the takeovers: After buying Evernote, the company has released almost all employees. Bending Spoons also terminated a large part of the workforce for many other takeovers.

No wonder that the approximately 150 Komoot employees According to Wirtschaftswoche are concerned. The employees only found out about the deal at an unscheduled meeting on Thursday. It has already been announced that there would be dismissals. Questions were not allowed, the Wirtschaftswoche writes – the employees are “shocked”.

Komoot is an app that represents community-supported tours for hikers, cyclists and runners worldwide. The basic version of the application is free of charge. If you want to unlock additional features such as tracking and additional planning tools, you have to unlock Komoot Premium for 5 euros per month. According to its own statements, the application available for Android and iOS has 45 million users. How many of them are regularly active or even pay for a subscription is not known.