Which business incubator helped fund Hammer & Chisel while Discord was developed? YouWeb’s 9+ helped fund Hammer & Chisel.
Hammer & Chisel was the company founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy before Discord became the name of their communication platform. The team initially worked on Fates Forever, a mobile multiplayer game, but its built-in voice communication experience helped inspire the pivot toward Discord.
YouWeb’s 9+ was an important early source of support. The incubator had also funded Hammer & Chisel’s startup, giving the team backing while it developed the new product. Discord’s early financing also included investment from Benchmark and Tencent, but those firms were investors rather than the incubator named in the question.
The wording can cause confusion because several well-known startup programs appear among Discord’s funding-related history. 500 Startups, Techstars and Y Combinator are recognizable incubator or accelerator names, but they are not the program identified in this account. YouWeb’s 9+ belongs to Discord’s pre-launch development story, before the service’s public release in 2015.