healthcare.digital December 8, 2025
Executive Summary: Platform Consolidators
The European healthcare technology landscape is currently navigating a period of profound structural transformation. Historically characterised by extreme fragmentation, a patchwork of national regulations, localised reimbursement models and legacy on-premise software, the sector has become the primary target for a new breed of operator: the “Platform Consolidator.”
Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company, has become the archetype for this model in the consumer app space, acquiring assets like Evernote and Vimeo to integrate them into a singular, highly efficient operating machine.
This report suggests that while no single “clone” of Bending Spoons exists in European HealthTech, the philosophy has been adopted and adapted by three distinct archetypes: Sovereign Consolidators (infrastructure giants like CompuGroup Medical and Dedalus),...
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