Last week saw the announcement on Techcrunch Europe of the launch of Keynoir.com, a new web company offering daily deals to users looking for great discounts on restaurants, spas and other experiences and products.

Simultaneously with the launch of the company came the news that Keynoir had closed £1.3 million of funding from Index Ventures, ProFounders Capital, Paul Birch, Andrej Henkler and Jan Riem. Not mentioned in the original article, but noted in a follow-up analysis piece on Techcrunch, Keynoir swallowed up rival company, DealBunch, which had already launched some time previously with a similar model.

The founders of Keynoir include Philip Wilkinson, who you may recall was a “Bootlaw Professor” at last year’s one-day seminar on funding (although he is more well-known for being the founder of  Kelkoo UK) and Glen Drury, ex-CEO of Yahoo! UK.

We were delighted to be representing Keynoir at this busy and exciting time in its early development! We’re also rather looking forward to some of the fantastic deals which will be appearing on its site very soon – but sadly client confidentiality means we cannot tell you what they might be – although there are some clues here.