{"id":67798,"date":"2016-03-25T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=67798"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T05:03:51","slug":"snapchat-to-acquire-bitstrips-for-100-million","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/snapchat-to-acquire-bitstrips-for-100-million","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat to Acquire Bitstrips for $100 Million: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3934\/15474995090_38f1723910_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/>Snapchat is buying Bitstrips.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/03\/24\/exclusive-snapchat-buys-bitmoji-maker\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to Fortune<\/a>, Snapchat has agreed to acquire the Toronto-born maker of &#8220;bitmojis&#8221; for around $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2007, Bitstrips <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/bitmoji-2014-10-29\" target=\"_blank\">last raised venture capital in 2014<\/a> from Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat is valued at around $12 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat is buying Bitstrips. According to Fortune, Snapchat has agreed to acquire the Toronto-born maker of &#8220;bitmojis&#8221; for around $100 million. Founded in 2007, Bitstrips last raised venture capital in 2014 from Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. Snapchat is valued at around $12 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":67800,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-67798","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/67798","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\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/67798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67798"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=67798"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=67798"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=67798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}