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Clubhouse is an invitation-only social media app for iOS that facilitates auditory communication through rooms that can accommodate groups of up to 5,000 people.

The audio-only app hosts virtual rooms for live discussions, with opportunities for individuals to participate through speaking and listening.

Clubhouse began as a social media startup by founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth in Fall 2019.

Originally designed for podcasts under the name Talkshow, the app was rebranded as "Clubhouse" and officially released for the iOS operating system in March 2020. Clubhouse was valued at $100 million after receiving funding from several venture capitalists, including a $12 million Series A investment from the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, in May 2020.

As of April 2021, venture capitalists valued Clubhouse at nearly $4 billion in a funding round.

The app gained popularity in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and had 600,000 registered users by December 2020. In January 2021, CEO Paul Davison announced that the app's active weekly user base consisted of approximately 2 million individuals.

On February 1, 2021, Clubhouse had an estimated 3.5 million downloads globally and grew rapidly to 8.1 million downloads by February 15th. This significant growth in popularity occurred after celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg made appearances on the app.

In January 2021, the app became widely used in Germany when German podcast hosts Philipp Klöckner and Philipp Gloeckler started an invite-chain over a Telegram group, bringing German influencers, journalists and politicians to the platform. A year after the app's release, the number of weekly active users was greater than 10 million, but the user base declined 21% during a three week period from late February to early March. The decline is reportedly caused by a decrease in the number of Clubhouse users after its initial release.

Currently, the app remains accessible only by invitation, with some invitation codes on eBay once costing up to $400.
In January 2021, the company announced that it would begin working on an Android version of the app.