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Groupon
Global leader in local commerce, making it easy for people around the world to search and discover great businesses at unbeatable prices
At a glance
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2011
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Groupon.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Groupon employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
LALaLaMoveEst. 2013
COCommureEst. 2017
SUSumUpEst. 2012
Marc-Alexander ChristUnited Kingdom
ELElectricEst. 2016
Ryan DenehyUnited States
QOQontoEst. 2016
Alexandre ProtFranceGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
169 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Groupon was the 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.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Groupon on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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