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Discord — the chat app with over 200 million monthly users — is in early - degree talks to IPO , The New York Timesreports . Discord ’s word with investment banker are still explorative and plan could change , per the NYT ’s sources .
Discord understands there is a mountain of pastime about its plans , but does not comment on rumors or conjecture , a spokesperson secern TechCrunch .
This is n’t the first time Discord has reflect over an IPO .
The San Francisco - based startupwalked by from a $ 10 billion leverage by Microsoftin 2021 as it consider bide independent and going public .
Discord waslast valuate at $ 14.7 billionin a 2021 fundraise for $ 500 million .
Discord is specially democratic in certain communities like video games and crypto , but it has alsoemerged as an unlikely center for the AI boom , with image generation companies like Midjourney operating on its server .