At 1pm today, Disqus announced that they had closed a $10 million round with North Bridge and Union Square Ventures. Last night I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Ha (co-founder of Disqus) to talk about the news. In this interview we cover why Disqus decided to raise additional funds and the future of the platform. I also ask Daniel if Facebook entering the commenting world had any influence on their decision to raise money. Don’t miss this interview.

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Details of the Disqus Deal:

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With this latest financing, we will be expanding the team, our products, and on building our long-term business. In the last 12 months, Disqus grew at least 500% across all of our core metrics: traffic, users, and communities. In fact, just this past November we announced hitting 200 million uniques/month and we’re now already approaching 500M! We’ve taken our time to carefully build the foundations of our core platform, and it’s allowed us to handle — admittedly with plenty of challenges — the accelerating growth with a small team.

You can read the full press release on their blog.

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