Discord – Chat application with more than 200 million users – is at the start of the first step with the IPO, the New York Times reports. Discord discussions with investment bankers are always exploratory and plans could change, according to NYT sources.
Discord understands that there is a lot of interest on his future plans, but does not comment rumors or speculation, a spokesman for Techcrunch said.
This is not the first time that Discord has been thinking about an IPO.
The startup based in San Francisco moved away from a purchase of $ 10 billion per Microsoft In 2021, because he considered to remain independent and become public.
Discord was Last valued at $ 14.7 billion In a fundraising in 2021 for $ 500 million.
Discord is particularly popular in certain communities such as video games and crypto, but it also has has become an unlikely center for the Boom of AIWith image generation companies like Midjourney operating on his server.
