Discord – the chat app with over 200 million month-to-month customers – is in early stage talks to IPO, the New York Occasions reports. Discord’s discussions with funding bankers are nonetheless exploratory and plans might change, per the NYT’s sources.
Discord understands there may be a variety of curiosity about its future plans, however doesn’t touch upon rumors or hypothesis, a spokesperson informed TechCrunch.
This isn’t the primary time Discord mulls over an IPO.
The San Francisco-based startup walked away from a $10 billion buy by Microsoft in 2021 because it thought-about staying impartial and going public.
Discord was final valued at $14.7 billion in a 2021 fundraise for $500 million.
Discord is particularly standard in sure communities like video video games and crypto, but it surely has additionally emerged as an unlikely middle for the AI increase, with picture technology firms like Midjourney working on its server.