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LivingSocial

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Washington DC, United States · Founded 2007

Social marketplace to buy and share the local attractions in major cities

Talent graph

LivingSocial's talent

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Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators Hidden — book a demo quality score
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

10 investors on LivingSocial's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Revolution
Grotech Ventures

Global footprint

Where LivingSocial has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
47 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States52.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.8%
🇮🇳 India4.9%
🇲🇾 Malaysia3.7%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.7%
Top 5 of 47 shown
Web traffic by country
80K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States74.4%
🇨🇦 Canada8.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.4%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.5%
🏳️ Puerto Rico1.8%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$4M patent portfolio · 6 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$4M
0.25% of valuation · 1.5× smaller than top peer Thrasio ($6M)
6 active patent families
Where LivingSocial innovates ClientData miningDatabaseFinancial transactionOperations research

Where LivingSocial concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across LivingSocial and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

11 deals across LivingSocial's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        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.

        Compare against

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        11 of 11 deals

        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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