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LivingSocial
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Washington DC, United States · Founded 2007 Unicorn
LivingSocial mafia
Startups founded by LivingSocial alumni
Former LivingSocial employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alex YakubovichUnited States
Sheji HoThailand
Susan TynanUnited States
Alex MichaelUnited Kingdom
Hannah KonitshekUnited States
Matt AimonettiUnited States
Nick WestUnited States
David YallandUnited Kingdom
Juliette GimenezHong KongGlobal footprint
Where LivingSocial has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$4M patent portfolio · 6 active families
Where LivingSocial concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across LivingSocial 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
LivingSocial's 11 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where LivingSocial appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2012. 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.
11 deals across LivingSocial's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where LivingSocial 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
LivingSocial'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
What the market is saying about LivingSocial
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about LivingSocial 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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