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Groupon
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Chicago, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2011 Unicorn
Global leader in local commerce, making it easy for people around the world to search and discover great businesses at unbeatable prices
Groupon mafia
Startups founded by Groupon alumni
Former Groupon employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Val AgostinoUnited States
Daniel UndurragaChile
Rok KoppCayman Islands
Tuomas ArtmanUnited States
Joseph DjenandjiGermany
Filipe NeryPortugal
Victor LysenkoSingapore
Christian BertermannGermany
Wolfgang RöbigGermanyGlobal footprint
Where Groupon has talent and traffic
(22 of 10,688 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$129M patent portfolio · 162 active families
Where Groupon concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Groupon and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Groupon's 48 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Groupon appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2022. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
48 deals across Groupon's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Groupon deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Groupon's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Groupon
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Groupon on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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