Candice Factor

Yeah, so I left Wattpad in 2017, and we started Disco in 2020.

And what's interesting is when I left Wattpad, I became incredibly interested in learning because...

You know, I was so aware that the skills that people are going to need in the future are so different than what they're being taught in institutional ed.

And I actually built my very own live learning community after Wattpad.

And what Disco is really solving for is it's actually really hard to do that.

It's hard to bring a live element and a social element to learning with the existing tools that exist.

And that's what we decided to solve for.

We said, let's make this better.

Yeah, no, you hit the nail on the head.

Like we started with knowledge creators who really wanted to build community-based learning.

And it's expanded, you know, from solopreneurs who are, you know, individual knowledge creators putting learning communities together to like really big now organizations are using us like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school.

It's owned by Zapier.

We are the OS for their entire learning community.

Dribbble, the world's, you know, one of the world's biggest product design communities, they're using Disco to be the OS for their entire Dribbble University.

And I think what, you know, knowledge creators and organizations are realizing is it's

You really want a seamless and branded experience for your learners to go to just one place, right?

One place for chat, one place for live video, one place for content.

And it's really helpful if you can have mission control to run your entire business from marketing and selling these live learning experiences to merchandising and monetizing different live learning experiences.

Yeah, we've raised some capital.

We have had a really... When was the last round and how much was it for?