Discord.com

Discord, a VOIP (Voice over IP) / messaging-based service, is a popular social media platform most commonly used for gamers on the internet.
==History==
The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Discord was released in May 2015 under the domain name discordapp.com. In January 2016, Discord raised an additional $20 million in funding, including an investment from WarnerMedia (then TimeWarner).https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/01/the-latest-app-for-third-party-voice-chat-just-raised-almost-us20-million/ In December 2018, the company announced it had raised $150 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners.https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/
Starting in June 2020, Discord announced it was shifting focus away from video gaming specifically to a more all-purpose communication and chat client for all functions, revealing its new slogan "Your place to talk", along with a revised website. Among other planned changes was to reduce the number of gaming in-jokes it used within the client, improving the user onboarding experience, and increasing server capacity and reliability. The company announced it had received an additional $100 million in investments to help with these changes.https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308194/discord-gaming-users-safety-center-video-voice-chat
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