# Jason Citron at OpenFeint > Jason Citron, Co-Founder & Board Member & Advisor to the CEO at OpenFeint. 1 investment on record. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) San Francisco, US · Angel # Jason Citron Co-Founder & Board Member & Advisor to the CEO at OpenFeint Latest rounds - **ClassDojo** Seed · $1.6M Jan 2012 Backs *Edtech* Profile summary - **Rounds named:** 1 last Jan 2012 - **Filings:** 2 with regulators - **Podcasts:** 4 +2 mentions What this record rests on - ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them - ✓ **On filings** 2 filings with a regulator - **Linked to a firm** No firm on record - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from filings their firm signed. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=jason-citron)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=jason-citron) ## Rounds they were named in - **Rounds:** 1 - **Led:** 0 - **Disclosed:** $1.6M - **Active:** 2012 2012 - [ClassDojo](https://millionrounds.com/company/classdojo) *Seed* **$1.6M** *US* Jan 2012 Joined · +13 investors · historical By stage - Seed **1** What they backed Edtech **1** Alongside - [General Catalyst Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/general-catalyst) - [Joe Greenstein *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/four-rivers-group) - [Kapor Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kapor-capital) - [Learn Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/learn-capital) - [Lerer Hippeau Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lerer-hippeau) - [Morado Venture Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/morado-venture-partners) - [NewSchools Venture Fund *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/newschools-venture-fund) - [Paul Graham *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/paul-graham) Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names. ## Companies they are listed as backing Portfolio - [Backbone](https://millionrounds.com/startup/backbone-3) - [Campuswire](https://millionrounds.com/startup/campuswire) - [ClassDojo](https://millionrounds.com/startup/classdojo) - [Superhuman](https://millionrounds.com/startup/superhuman) ## Where they are named on record Filings - SEC Form D · Company raising **Discord Inc.** Executive Officer, Director on 6 filings · since 2019 - SEC Form D · Company raising **Aurora Feint Inc.** Executive Officer, Director on 2 filings · since 2009 Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date. ## Hear them before you pitch them - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 25 Nov 2024 · 51 min 20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users With [Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron) About this episode Jason Citron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Discord, a voice, video and text platform for friends playing games. Jason has raised $1BN for the company and was able to scale to 200M users. Prior to co-founding Discord, Jason founded OpenFeint, the biggest social mobile gaming platform, which sold to… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [How I Built This](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/how-i-built-this) · 7 Mar 2022 · 1h 29m Discord: Jason Citron With [Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron) About this episode During his early career, Jason Citron stepped away from two stalled businesses and pivoted, twice, to something far more successful. The second time he did it, he created one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. It started at age 13 when Jason had a “holy crap” moment, discovering… Listen on Apple Podcasts - [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 22 Oct 2020 · 1h 5m Jason Citron - Building the Third Place - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.4] With [Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron) About this episode My guest today is Jason Citron, founder and CEO of Discord. Discord is one of the largest and fastest growing social networks in the world. It started as a place for gamers to congregate online, but thanks to how easy it makes it to create a community of any type and its offering of text, audio,… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [Greymatter](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/greymatter) · 2 Nov 2016 · 34 min The State of Gaming with Discord CEO Jason Citron | Greymatter With [Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron) Mentions [Josh Elman](https://millionrounds.com/fund/josh-elman) About this episode The global video game industry is thriving. According to PwC, gaming is expected to grow from $71.3 billion in 2015 to $90.1 billion by 2020. Jason Citron, the CEO and founder of Discord, understands this space very well. He started gaming on the NES when he was five, learned how to program games… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Jason Citron in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [Grit](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/grit) · 27 May 2024 · 1h 4m #192 CTO & Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It Mentions [Claire Hughes Johnson](https://millionrounds.com/fund/claire-hughes-johnson)[Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron)[Mitch Lasky](https://millionrounds.com/person/mitch-lasky) About this episode Guest: Stanislav Vishnevskiy, CTO and co-founder of Discord For many years, the conventional wisdom was the gaming was not social because it was something you usually did at home. “But people who play games are often the most social,” says Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. “They’re spending 10,… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The a16z Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/a16z) · 10 May 2024 · 42 min How Discord Became a Developer Platform Mentions [Anjney Midha](https://millionrounds.com/person/anjney-midha)[Jason Citron](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-citron) About this episode In 2009 Discord cofounder and CEO, Jason Citron, started building tools and infrastructure for games. Fast forward to today and the platform has over 200 million monthly active users. In this episode, Jason, alongside a16z General Partner Anjney Midha, who merged his company Ubiquity6 with Discord… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=jason-citron). ## Find people like Jason Filter every partner and angel by firm, kind, market and whether we watched them invest. Free with an account. Search people[How we know what we know](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)