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Discord, the American start-up who developed the eponymous cat tool, managed to raise $ 150 million during a series of investments led by Greenoaks Capital and to the participation companies such as Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners. As a result, it has effectively raised its market value to $ 2.05 billion – coupled with the numbers from previous cycles.
The news comes at the right time, as the company's dizzying growth has led to the announcement of a market for digital distribution of PC games, effectively positioning itself as a direct competitor of the game. Hegemony Steam and the recently announced Epic Games Store. According to the start-up, its revenue sharing model will be the most attractive of the three stores: Steam currently generates 30% of the revenues of games sold on its platform (model 70-30), while the Epic Games Store says " Only "12%. In the case of Discord, the company will realize 10% of sales.
The main activity of the company, however, remains the live chat platform allowing players to chat during and outside the games. Available for a multitude of platforms (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, Linux and a browser version), the direct chat application has already exceeded the milestone of 200 million users
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