Clubhouse, a platform that has been offering audio-only chat rooms since March 2020, announced on Sunday that it had carried out a new fundraiser which, according to a source close to the company, values ​​the company at $ 4 billion.

The group explains on its blog that it has already finalized a fundraiser in January to be able to "welcome more users", "strengthen its infrastructure" and "support creators" organizing live discussions.

“Since then we have grown much faster than we expected as Clubhouse has spread” around the world.

The servers struggled at times and the algorithms created at the beginning no longer cope, the company notes.

A previous round of funding at 1 billion

So she again asked investors for a new fundraising, this time led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with the participation of the funds DST Global, Tiger Global and the businessman. Elad Gil.

The company did not give details of the amounts involved but a source close to the company indicated that the transaction gave Clubhouse a valuation of around $ 4 billion, confirming information from the

Bloomberg

agency

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The previous round table in January valued the company $ 1 billion.

The application, accessible by invitation only, allows you to listen to live discussions, and sometimes participate in them.

Creators can get paid

Taking advantage of the pandemic and appearances by celebrities like entrepreneur Elon Musk, she has brought long conversations up to date, whether it's investor Q&A, friends chatting, or interviews. of personalities.

Since the beginning of April, it has allowed users to send money to content creators.

Based in San Francisco, Clubhouse was created by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth via the start-up Alpha Exploration.

It is already being emulated, Facebook having discreetly launched at the beginning of April a test phase for a new audio conferencing application, Hotline, while Twitter has been testing “Spaces” since December.

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