Discord is a voice, video and text communication service to talk and hang out with your friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes.
Today, Discord is used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups. Discord has garnered >150 million monthly active users with >4 billion server conversation minutes per day on the platform. That’s time spent hanging out together, talking, typing, and belonging on the platform.
Not only that, Discord has managed to crack monetisation in a traditionally difficult gaming vertical with its >$100M revenue. GP Bullhound loves the product, and so does the world, proven by its premier engagement that shadows many well-known social media platforms.
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life.
Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,800+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than 1.5 billion unique devices.
Unity debuted on the New City Stock Exchange on 18 September 2020 under the ticker ‘U’ at a valuation of $14Bn.
Slack has transformed business communication. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. Only Slack offers a secure, enterprise-grade environment that can scale with the largest companies in the world. It is a new layer of the business technology stack where people can work together more effectively, connect all their other software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work. Slack is where work happens.
Slack debuted on New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ‘WORK’ on 20 June 2019 at $23Bn valuation and later merged with Salesforce for a $27Bn valuation at the end of 2020.
DuckDuckGo is the online privacy leader, helping creating a safer internet by preventing data tracking online. The company offers several internet products where privacy is guaranteed, such as a desktop browser, an email service, or its well-know search engine which receives +100M searches per day.
At GP Bullhound, we are conscious of the arising concern that online privacy is for users, who see how digital companies are tracking most of their Internet activity to make a profit out of their data. DuckDuckGo’s mission is to show the world that protecting online privacy is simple and accessible for everyone.
HackerOne empowers the world to build a safer internet. As the world’s most trusted hacker-powered security platform, HackerOne gives organizations access to the largest community of hackers on the planet. Armed with the most robust database of vulnerability trends and industry benchmarks, the hacker community mitigates cyber risk by searching, finding, and safely reporting real-world security weaknesses for organizations across all industries and attack surfaces.
Customers include The U.S. Department of Defense, Dropbox, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hyatt, Intel, Lufthansa, Microsoft, MINDEF Singapore, Nintendo, PayPal, Qualcomm, Slack, Starbucks, Twitter, and Verizon Media. HackerOne was ranked fifth on the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2020. Headquartered in San Francisco, HackerOne has a presence in London, New York, the Netherlands, France, Singapore, and over 70 other locations across the globe.
Monocl delivers deep professional profiles on millions of experts worldwide, to help companies identify and engage industry opinion leaders. Through the transaction, Definitive fortifies its product offerings for life sciences companies and expands its international presence from North America to Europe and Asia.
“Monocl has always been laser focused on delivering critical expert insights through software to provide our clients with a unique competitive and collaborative edge,” said Björn Carlsson, CEO and co-founder of Monocl. “We are thrilled to unite the power of our groundbreaking expert platform with Definitive’s comprehensive and complementary healthcare provider platform and medical claims analytics. This is truly an example of the whole being much greater than the sum of its parts.”
“The acquisition of Monocl brings together two powerful intelligence platforms to provide best-in-class data, analytics and insight that will help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate clinical research and commercialisation of new drugs and therapies,” said Jason Krantz, founder and CEO of Definitive Healthcare. “Monocl shares the Definitive philosophy of providing the highest quality data through an online interface that gives clients the ability to access and analyse real-time information and intelligence.”
Joakim Dal, Partner at GP Bullhound, added: “Björn and his team have put a very powerful application in the hands of Monocl’s customers. The superior user interface and the vast data library makes this a standard for enterprise applications. During our investment period, Monocl has developed at a rapid pace. We look forward to what the combination of these two leading companies can do to support the critical work in the life sciences sector.”
GP Bullhound invested in Monocl in 2019 through GP Bullhound Fund IV, which focuses on growth stage businesses in the software, digital media, marketplaces and fintech sectors. Other investments include Revolut, Slack, Klarna, Unity, RavenPack and Believe.
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About GP Bullhound
GP Bullhound is a leading technology advisory and investment firm, providing transaction advice and capital to the world’s best entrepreneurs and founders. Founded in 1999, the firm today has offices in London, San Francisco, Stockholm, Berlin, Manchester, Paris, Hong Kong, Madrid and New York. For more information, please visit www.gpbullhound.com.