Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 3, 2026

Zulily, Inc.

Zulily, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

DeprioritizeFinancing has gone silent well past the sector's normal cadence — treat as inactive until outside confirmation of a live operation.

Businessfiled

Zulily, Inc. operates in Retailing, based in SEATTLE.

No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.

Capital & rounds (filed)filed

Zulily, Inc. has raised $135M in disclosed capital across 4 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series C (a $40M–$100M round).

Largest single filing: $85M on 2012-11-05.

Most recent recorded round closed around 2012-11-05.

Valuation (modeled)modeled

Provath models Zulily, Inc. at approximately $495M (range $296M–$1.3B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.

Read: Fair. Modeled value is 1.11× the median modeled value of Series C Retailing companies in 2010–2012 (5 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (111% of peer median) for its niche.

Financing rhythm & timingmixed

Historic cadence: a new round about every 12 months.

Last raise 13.7 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.

Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

The last round stepped up 2.0× from the prior — scaling.

Comparablesmixed

Capital scale ranks ahead of 98% of Retailing peers (2347 compared).

Modeled value ranks above 97% of those peers.

Closest niche peers: Comfort Holding, LLC, Sprouts Farmers Markets Llc, Spartan Stores Inc, PartsChannel Investors, Inc..

Peoplefiled

17 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.

Risks & flagsmixed

Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.

No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.