The company behind Discord
Discord
Discord Inc. makes the Discord chat app, which is free to download. It earns money from the optional Nitro subscription, from items sold in its shop and from advertising sold through Quests.
Read on Oct 6, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Discord at a glance
- Chief executive
- Humam Sakhnini
- Founded
- 2012
- Based in
- San Francisco, California, with a second office in Amsterdam
- Ownership
- Privately held
Discord's CEO and founders
The people Discord names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there.
Discord funding
Raised $500 million in a round led by Dragoneer Investment Group in September 2021, according to the company's statement as reported by CNBC. cnbc.com
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held: its only filings with the US securities regulator are notices of exempt offerings. Discord Inc. is a Delaware corporation, per its company information page. discord.com
- Founded
- 2012 discord.com
- Based in
- San Francisco, California, with a second office in Amsterdam discord.com
- Hiring
- 62 roles listed in 20 departments, most of them in product engineering, developers, core tech engineering and data science, and most in the San Francisco Bay Area. discord.com
Discord on social media and the web
- Blog · discord.com
- Newsletter · discord.com
- Status page · discordstatus.com
- Careers · discord.com
Only accounts Discord links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
Discord news and launches
Questions about Discord the company
Who is the CEO of Discord?
Humam Sakhnini is Discord's chief Executive Officer, according to discord.com, as read on Oct 6, 2026.
Who founded Discord?
Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy are named as founders of Discord, which was founded in 2012.
How much funding has Discord raised?
Raised $500 million in a round led by Dragoneer Investment Group in September 2021, according to the company's statement as reported by CNBC.
What is Discord's valuation?
No valuation was found in Discord's announcements or in news reports, as read on Oct 6, 2026. Private companies usually do not publish one.
Who owns Discord?
Privately held: its only filings with the US securities regulator are notices of exempt offerings. Discord Inc. is a Delaware corporation, per its company information page.
Where is Discord based?
Discord gives its base as San Francisco, California, with a second office in Amsterdam.
Is Discord hiring?
62 roles listed in 20 departments, most of them in product engineering, developers, core tech engineering and data science, and most in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Is Discord on social media?
Discord links to its own accounts on YouTube. The links are on this page, taken from Discord's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 6, 2026. Facts come from Discord’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.