Family focused Daily Deals service, DailyD raised $5 million according to a southern California news site and their SEC filing yesterday.
DailyD’s chairman is LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin - he sold the company to Experian for $330 million in 2005.
DailyD faces steep competition in the Family vertical, including doodledeals (who has inked a distribution partnership with Diapers.com), DC based Certifikid, and SF based Mamapedia.
Daily Deal Financings
DailyD is the most recent in a long list of venture financings in the Daily Deals space, including:
- Groupon raised $173 million from DST, Accel, NEA, Battery and more
- LivingSocial raised $49 million from Lightspeed, Grotech, US Venture, and Steve Case
- BuyWithMe raised $21 million from BainCapital Ventures and Matrix
- Bloompsot raised at least $9 million from Menlo Ventures, True Venture and others
- Tippr (owned by Kashless, Inc) has raised at least $5 million from RRE
- HomeRun raised an undisclosed amount from First Round Capital, Founder Collective and others
- Zozi raised an undisclosed amount from Zig Capital, 500 Startups and LaunchCapital
- Doodledeals is a product of NYC incubator LaunchTime LLC
- Yipit raised $1.3 million from RRE, DFJ Gotham, SV Angel and others
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