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About Save2Much · Est. 2014, Austin TX

Two engineers, tired of dead coupon codes.

In 2014, Marcus Chen left RetailMeNot and Priya Ramanathan left Expedia. They wanted a savings tool that actually worked — human-verified codes, real cashback, no data resale. Ten years later, every feature is still free for 3.4 million subscribers.

Read the Founder Note or install the browser extension →
  • 92.4%code-success rate, audited by SavingsBench Labs
  • $1.1Bsaved by members since 2014
  • 87full-time employees in Austin & Vancouver

The Save2Much arc

Ten years of building the savings tool we wished existed.

A bootstrapped team, an audited number set, and a category we kept choosing not to race on noise. Here is how a side project between two ex-coupon-site engineers became a tool used by 1.8 million browser-extension shoppers.

  1. 2014

    Founded in a one-bedroom apartment in Austin, TX.

    Marcus Chen (ex-RetailMeNot product lead) and Priya Ramanathan (former Expedia engineer) launch Save2Much with a single editorial rule: every coupon code has to be pasted into a real cart by a real person before it ships. The first 14 partner stores are signed in the first quarter, mostly from cold emails.

  2. 2018

    Bootstrapped, profitable, and still free.

    The team reaches 31 employees without raising a dollar of outside capital. The founders make the "free forever, no paid tier" commitment in writing on the company blog — a promise still kept in 2025. Cashback tracking on the browser extension becomes the second product line.

  3. 2023

    Named the #1 coupon & cashback extension by The Wirecutter.

    The 92.4% code-success rate is independently audited by SavingsBench Labs — the highest in the U.S. coupon industry, against an industry average of 41%. The 30-day price-history graph goes live across 4.6 million SKUs, so members know whether a "sale" is actually a low before they buy.

  4. Nov 2024

    Cumulative member savings cross $1.1 billion.

    The milestone lands exactly ten years after founding, across 3.4 million email subscribers and 1.8 million browser-extension users. The team has grown to 87 people across Austin, TX and Vancouver, BC, and the product remains free for every member — no paid subscription has ever been introduced.

Mission & operating principles

Four promises we made in 2014 and have never broken.

Save2Much exists for one reason: to make sure no one in America pastes a dead code at checkout again. Everything below is how the team gets measured, every quarter, by the founders.

  • 01

    Human verification, before any code goes live.

    Every coupon is pasted into a real cart by a 24-person editorial team in Austin and Vancouver. The 92.4% success rate in 2024 was independently audited by SavingsBench Labs — against a 41% industry average.

  • 02

    No selling of member purchase data. Ever.

    Save2Much has never brokered member purchase history to advertisers, data brokers, or merchant retargeting networks. The policy is contractual, audited, and stated in plain English in the privacy page — not buried in sub-clauses.

  • 03

    Free forever — no paid tier, in 11 years of operation.

    100% of features are free for every member, including the browser extension, the price tracker, and the cashback dashboard. Profitable and bootstrapped since 2018 — the company doesn't need a paid tier, and members shouldn't have to pay for one.

  • 04

    Cashback paid out within 48 hours of confirmation.

    Most networks take 30 to 60 days to release cashback. Save2Much pays tracked cashback within 48 hours of order confirmation — about 6x faster than the category leader — so members can see the savings move into their wallet almost as fast as the package arrives.

We have never sold a single member's purchase data. We never will. The whole business model is the opposite: shoppers trust us because we keep their data off the market, and merchants trust us because we bring them verified buyers, not retargeted ones.
Marcus Chen Co-founder & CEO · Save2Much, Inc. Signed in the same employee handbook every new hire reads on day one.

Press & third-party validation

Vouched for by the press. Audited by SavingsBench Labs.

We don't ask members to take the savings numbers on our word. The success rate, the cashback timing, and the partnership list have all been checked by reporters and an independent auditor — the receipts are below.

312,000+
Active coupon codes across 92,000 retailer partnerships
$847
Average annual savings per active member (2024 internal data, audited)
1.8M
Browser-extension users — #1 in Chrome Web Store Shopping, 2023 & 2024

The founder letter

Read the full letter from Marcus and Priya.

A 1,400-word note on why we built Save2Much, the four lines the company has refused to cross in eleven years, how the no-data-selling policy actually works behind the scenes, and where the next ten years are going. No marketing copy — written in plain language, the way the founders explain the company to their own families.

  • Why we left RetailMeNot and Expedia to build this in 2014
  • The four lines we have refused to cross — and who keeps us accountable to them
  • What we mean by "no data selling," in the actual contract language
  • Where the next decade of price tracking and cashback is going
Read the Founder Note or install the free browser extension →

Free. Forever. 312,000+ codes, audited quarterly.