Companies330 Funding$40.1B Rounds110 ▲5 mo Investors77 Eng roles3942 ● 38 events pending
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Groupon

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Save up to 70% on 1,000s of local restaurants, shopping, events & more. Find great deals on the best activities & things to do. Download the Groupon App today. observed

stale · evidence 3d ago 15 sources no confidence data
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Developer momentum
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Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
2 ▲+1
eng openings

Engineering openings 1 → 2 over 3d

Counted from the company's own job board — each point a dated observation.

08-28 108-31 2

Traction

Current round

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Opportunity & risk

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Team size (reported)
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Open eng roles
2 observed
Total open roles
20 observed
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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO ↗
  2. rumor How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users ↗
  3. rumor Groupon Buys LivingSocial, a Rival Once Valued at $6B ↗
  4. rumor Groupon updates IPO filing, admits it's unprofitable ↗
  5. rumor Groupon files for IPO ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.22

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 722 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 722 Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon 2014-11-11 ↗

Raw observations 40 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Groupon observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
common_name Groupon observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 722 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731263", "title": "How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users", "points": 251, "created_at": "2017-07-09", "evidence_type observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731263", "title": "How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users", "points": 251, "created_at": "2017-07-09", "evidence_type observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731263", "title": "How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users", "points": 251, "created_at": "2017-07-09", "evidence_type observed artifact ↗ 2023-03-31 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731263", "title": "How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users", "points": 251, "created_at": "2017-07-09", "evidence_type observed artifact ↗ 2023-03-31 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731263", "title": "How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users", "points": 251, "created_at": "2017-07-09", "evidence_type observed artifact ↗ 2023-03-31 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589283", "title": "Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon", "points": 722, "created_at": "2014-11-11"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589283", "title": "Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon", "points": 722, "created_at": "2014-11-11"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589283", "title": "Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon", "points": 722, "created_at": "2014-11-11"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-11-11 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589283", "title": "Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon", "points": 722, "created_at": "2014-11-11"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-11-11 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589283", "title": "Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon", "points": 722, "created_at": "2014-11-11"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-11-11 normalized 0.20
description Was also part of the Chicago tech scene that Eric recalls from earlier days. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
description Save up to 70% on 1,000s of local restaurants, shopping, events & more. Find great deals on the best activities & things to do. Download the Groupon App today. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.70
domain www.groupon.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
index.ai_tie NOT_AI observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
jobs.board_url https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/groupon observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-28 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-28 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 2 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-31 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 17 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-28 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-29 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 19 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-31 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-02 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 19 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-03 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 18 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-04 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 21 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-08 superseded 0.85
jobs.postings.total 20 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-10 normalized 0.85
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M05TYKA5VM95MT4G6VXDN10G", "signals": [{"quote": "we all know that groupon raised at 20 billion dollars went public and a year later is worth 2 billion i mean it's not observed artifact ↗ 2022-03-26 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "TWiST E2312 — startup trying to buy PayPal — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRP7ZSCHCTYH7G6A3HGTHFJ-m-1e89b06882cd94f1", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:2563df2435760ca767cda32 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "- Startups - Mike Jones of Science - TWiST #285 — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRSPY49304HSB63WWMPA0NX-m-1e89b06882cd94f1", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:9ddf26fba2532daa49 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-26 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "- Startups - Marco Zappacosta of Thumbtack - TWiST #241 — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRSPYRX9HJ2EXYNQWCZQ5SA-m-1e89b06882cd94f1", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:f6ba7a5141 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-26 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRSG0NQAN6AP8F89SQJXGWA-m-1e89b06882cd94f1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-26 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234 — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRSP737V0D6CMYZSDG67W04-m-1e89b06882cd94f1", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:97716d95083e8516f observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-06 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "Unicorns: now and then with Aileen Lee | E1887 — groupon", "source_id": "01KXRSPBP8WVJ8SA9XW0C9DA3T-m-1e89b06882cd94f1", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:0d38ba6f0e208927551 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-09 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.groupon.com observed enrichment 2026-07-24 normalized 0.75
website_url https://www.groupon.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.80