Discord, Inc. (originally Hammer & Chisel, Inc.)

Discord began as a product of Hammer & Chisel, Inc., a small game-studio-turned-communications company founded by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy. The team built Discord to provide low-latency voice, video and text chat tailored to gamers, launching the initial public release in 2015. Over time the company shifted its identity and branding to the product name, and today the business is widely known as Discord, Inc. (the original legal name Hammer & Chisel is frequently referenced in historical contexts).

Discord operates a cross-platform communications service used by gamers, communities, and increasingly by general-interest groups and teams. Its product family includes the stable Discord client, pre-release channels such as Discord Canary and the Public Test Build (PTB), as well as developer-facing offerings like the Discord API, SDKs, and an app/platform ecosystem. Discord also offers paid features (Nitro), moderation and community tools, and integrations for streaming, bots, and...