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Discord

Consumer Services · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 Decacorn

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Valuation
$10–50B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$500M–1B
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
2–5k
Current team size
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Featured in Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Communication platform enabling voice, video, and text chats in customizable community channels

Investors

23 investors on Discord's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 4 investors entered at this stage
Ridge Ventures
Accel
General Catalyst
9+
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Mitch Lasky
Time Warner
Series B+ 17 investors entered at this stage
Greylock Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners
Franklin Templeton Investments
Coatue Management
FirstMark
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Baillie Gifford
Specialized Types
Tencent
Fidelity Investments
Benchmark
Greenoaks Capital Partners
Index Ventures
Technology Opportunity Partners
Dragoneer Investment Group
Spark Capital
IVP

Discord mafia

Startups founded by Discord alumni

Former Discord employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

SesameEst. 2023
Ankit KumarUnited States
Signal score95
PromptfooEst. 2024
Ian WebsterUnited States
Signal score77
MonkeyEst. 2017
ZTZay TurnerUnited States
Signal score73
NEWNESSEst. 2019
Youri ParkUnited States
Signal score68
Rascal GamesEst. 2023
Rick LingUnited States
Signal score66
PopdogEst. 2018
AGAlexander GarfieldUnited States
Signal score57
SPICYESTEst. 2022
DLDavid Liao.United States
Signal score55
ConsoleEst. 2024
Neal ChandraUnited States
Signal score48

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Global footprint

Where Discord has talent and traffic

AI talent share
1.4% of workforce is AI talent
(64 of 4,517 staff)
Core AI120.27%
Other AI521.15%
Non-AI workforce4,45398.58%
Workforce by country
64 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States61.1%
🇮🇳 India4.9%
🇵🇰 Pakistan3.8%
🇫🇷 France2.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.6%
Top 5 of 64 shown
Web traffic by country
600M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States29.2%
🇮🇳 India4.7%
🇧🇷 Brazil4.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
🇵🇭 Philippines3.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$5M patent portfolio · 21 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$5M
0.03% of valuation · 1.8× the top peer Twitch ($3M)
21 active patent families
Where Discord innovates ServerReal-time computingReal-time communicationMultimediaLearning models

Where Discord concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Discord and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Discord's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Discord appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2021–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Discord's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Discord deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Discord's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Sentiment on X

        What X is saying about Discord

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Discord on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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