CrowdSavings.com

What CrowdSavings.com does

CrowdSavings.com, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, operated an e-commerce marketplace that aggregated discounted products and services from local businesses and online retailers. The platform functioned as a deal-discovery portal targeting price-sensitive consumers seeking promotional offers from merchants. During 2010-2011, CrowdSavings pursued a roll-up strategy, acquiring at least nine competing daily-deal platforms (Joffer, Savvy Avenue, Daily Deal Squad, Get Grouby, Lucky Monkey, QponDay, Deal Daddies, PLAYHawaii, and Huge Daily Deal), all for undisclosed consideration. The company raised an aggregate of approximately $5.1 million across three funding rounds in 2011-2012.

The company monetized through marketplace/intermediation economics typical of the daily-deals vertical, taking a share of transactions between merchants and deal-seekers. Details on pricing models, contract structures with merchants, and revenue mechanics are not disclosed in available sources. The firm was funded by a discrete set of investors that completed three rounds between April 2011 and October 2012, after which no further capital raises have been disclosed.

The current state of CrowdSavings.com is unclear from public sources: the firm's primary domain resolves to a placeholder/launch page rather than an active marketplace, and there is no verifiable data on product launches, hiring, headcount beyond the 11-50 range, partnerships, or technology stack since 2012. No management team, app presence, API surface, certifications, or social-media activity is documented. The absence of operational signals post-2012, combined with the secular decline of the daily-deals category, suggests the platform is either dormant or operating at materially reduced scale.

Name

CrowdSavings.com

Website

https://crowdsavings.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CrowdSavings.com was a Tampa-based e-commerce marketplace founded in 2009 that aggregated discounted products and services from local businesses and online retailers for deal-seeking consumers, executing nine acquisitions of competing daily-deal platforms between 2010 and 2011.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Daily Deals Marketplace

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Price Comparison, Deals, Cashback & Loyalty Shopping Platforms (BPAMAGAH)

Keywords

• Daily deals marketplace
• Group buying platform
• Local deals aggregator
• Discount coupons
• Merchant promotions

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

CrowdSavings.com operates an e-commerce marketplace that aggregates and offers discounted products and services from local businesses and online retailers to consumers. The platform connects deal-seeking consumers with merchant promotions, functioning as a group-buying/daily-deal aggregator.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CrowdSavings.com deals marketplace Consumer-facing online marketplace that aggregates discounted products and services from local businesses and online retailers, allowing deal-seeking consumers to browse and redeem promotions in a group-buying/deals format.
• PLAYHawaii (acquired) Hawaii-focused local deals offering that became part of the CrowdSavings.com marketplace following acquisition, providing region-specific discounted experiences and services to consumers in Hawaii.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Groupon: Groupon is the dominant daily-deals marketplace, offering discounted local experiences, goods, and services from merchants. It is the most direct competitor to CrowdSavings.com's stated offering of discounted products and services from local businesses and online retailers.
• LivingSocial: LivingSocial is a daily-deals platform focused on local experiences and discounts from neighborhood merchants, directly overlapping with CrowdSavings.com's local business and online retailer deal-aggregation model.
• RetailMeNot: RetailMeNot operates a digital coupon and cashback marketplace aggregating discounts from online and in-store retailers — highly comparable to CrowdSavings.com's deals/discounts marketplace positioning.
• Coupons.com: Coupons.com (owned by Quotient Technology) is a digital coupon and promotional code platform serving both online retailers and consumer packaged goods brands — directly comparable in merchant mix and consumer value proposition to CrowdSavings.com.
• Slickdeals: Slickdeals is a community-driven deals aggregation platform covering discounts from online retailers and local merchants, making it a direct functional peer to CrowdSavings.com's e-commerce deals marketplace.
• DealNews: DealNews curates and aggregates the best deals from online retailers across product categories, overlapping with CrowdSavings.com's online retailer deal-aggregation component.

Broad incumbents

• Amazon Local: Amazon Local is Amazon's daily-deals offering, leveraging Amazon's broader e-commerce platform. It competes with CrowdSavings.com for both local merchant deals and online retailer discount mind-share, but as part of Amazon's larger portfolio.
• Yelp Deals: Yelp incorporates local business deals and offers within its broader local business review and discovery platform, overlapping with CrowdSavings.com's local merchant deal offering but as a feature of Yelp's broader marketplace.
• Google Offers: Google Offers was Google's daily-deals product adjacent to its broader commerce and advertising ecosystem, overlapping with CrowdSavings.com's marketplace model though operated as part of Google's much wider portfolio.

Emerging players

• Woot: Woot is an online retailer specializing in daily deals and limited-time offers on a curated set of products — comparable to CrowdSavings.com's online retailer deal offering, though narrower in scope and now part of Amazon.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CrowdSavings
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crowdsavings

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A9 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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