{"id":59089,"date":"2014-10-29T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=59089"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:10:58","slug":"bitmoji","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/bitmoji","title":{"rendered":"Bitstrips Raises $8 Million, Launches &#8216;Bitmoji&#8217; App That Turns People into Custom Emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3934\/15474995090_38f1723910_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"226\" \/>Bitstrips has raised a round of money and launched an app.<\/p>\n<p>The evidently busy Toronto-based startup&#8217;s Series B round brings total funding for the company to $11 million.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.<\/p>\n<p>The app, called Bitmoji and available for iOS and Android, personalizes the emoji world by basing them off of you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wATcMCF4CLw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bitstrips isn&#8217;t a brand new company but last year gained fame for its annoying Facebook comics, quickly growing and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/torontos-raises-3-million-2013-12-12\" target=\"_blank\">raising a first round of $3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitstrips has raised a round of money and launched an app. The evidently busy Toronto-based startup&#8217;s Series B round brings total funding for the company to $11 million. The round was led by Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. The app, called Bitmoji and available for iOS and Android, personalizes the emoji world by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":59091,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-59089","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59089"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=59089"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=59089"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=59089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}