Company · Marketplace & E-commerce

Groupalia

www.groupalia.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Series B

Groupalia was a Barcelona-founded (May 2010) daily-deals / group-buying e-commerce site offering discounted leisure packages, travel, restaurants and local experiences across Spain, Italy and Latin America. It raised roughly $63M in VC funding, merged with rival Offerum in 2015, and was acquired by Ofertix (Merchant Digital Services) in 2016. The company is no longer active.

Founded
2010
Founders
1
News
0
Rounds
0
Investors
5
SectorsE-commerce, Group buying / daily deals, Travel & Leisure Start-up MapMarketplace & E-commerce › Marketplace & social commerce platforms

Profile updated 31 Jul 2026

Founders

Joaquín Engel
Founder & CEO

Global models 5

Meituan
Started in 2010 as a Groupon-style group-buying platform before expanding into a super-app, matching Groupalia's original daily-deals model.
$3.3BComparable
Groupon
United States · www.groupon.com ↗
The pioneering daily-deals/group-buying platform that Groupalia directly modeled its business on.
$1.35BComparable
LivingSocial
United States · www.livingsocial.com ↗
A major VC-backed US daily-deals competitor to Groupon with the identical local-deals coupon model.
$935MComparable
Dianping
Chinese local-deals and group-buying platform (later merged with Meituan) with the same discount-coupon marketplace model.
$850MComparable
55Tuan
Another heavily VC-funded Chinese group-buying site offering the same city-by-city daily-deal coupons as Groupalia.
$400MComparable

Investors 5

Funding rounds

No announced rounds on record.

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