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Discord — Startup ProfileCreate space for everyone to find belongingHQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2015 | Employees: 600-750 | Stage: Late Stage Private — Pre-IPO | Website: https://discord.comAboutDiscord was founded in May 2015 by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy after their game studio Hammer & Chisel pivoted when the low-latency VoIP and chat infrastructure built for their MOBA Fates Forever proved more valuable than the game itself. Launched publicly on May 13, 2015, Discord solved gamers' core pain — requiring no server setup like TeamSpeak or Mumble and outperforming Skype during competitive play — and grew from 45M registered users in 2017 to 150M MAU by September 2021, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic as communities for study groups, AI tools like Midjourney (20M+ member server), crypto, education and creator fandoms adopted its server-based model.Today Discord operates 19M+ weekly active servers for 200M+ MAU with persistent text channels, always-on voice/video,Key Metrics

Latest Valuation: $15B (Sep 2021)

Total Funding: $995M (~$1B incl. strategic)

Last Round: $500M Series H — Dragoneer (Sep 2021)

Revenue: $650M (2023)

Monthly Active Users: 220M MAU

Registered Users: 560M+ registered

Funding Rounds

Round: $20M (2016-01-18) — Greylock Partners

Round: $50M (2017-01-17) — Index Ventures

Round: $150M (2018-04-20) — Greenoaks Capital, Firstmark

Round: $100M (2020-06-30) — Index Ventures

Round: $100M (2020-12-17) — Greenoaks Capital

Key People

Jason Citron

Stanislav Vishnevskiy

Humam Sakhnini

Aleen Dreksler

Key Competitors

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Timeline Highlights

2024-04-15: Reaches 200M MAU and $650M revenue

2021-09-16: Series H $500M at $15B led by Dragoneer

2021-03-22: Rejects Microsoft $10B acquisition offer

2020-06-30: Rebrand beyond gaming at $3.5B valuation

2018-04-20: Unicorn status — $150M Series D at $1.65B