{"id":70554,"date":"2018-12-21T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/333481"},"modified":"2018-12-21T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:49:00","slug":"discord-raises-another-150m-after-opening-its-own-games-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/discord-raises-another-150m-after-opening-its-own-games-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord raises another $150M after opening its own games store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks\u00a0Discord snuck in here today at the end of 2018 to announce\u00a0they&#8217;ve raised $150 million in another round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company &#8211; which the new investment values at $2.05 billion &#8211; seems to be riding high after the recent full-fledged launch of its own in-client games store, replete with Early Access system and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332934\/Discord_aims_to_disrupt_by_opening_storefront_to_devs_offering_90_revenue_share.php\">attractive 90\/10 rev-share split<\/a> in devs&#8217; favor. It now claims a global userbase of over 200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prior investor Tencent also put some money into this funding round, alongside Firstmark, IVP, Technology Opportunity Partners and Index Ventures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks\u00a0Discord snuck in here today at the end of 2018 to announce\u00a0they&#8217;ve raised $150 million in another round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital.\u00a0 The company &#8211; which the new investment values at $2.05 billion &#8211; seems to be riding high after the recent full-fledged launch of its own in-client games store, replete with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}