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Our mission is to give you an entertaining and dynamic visual identity that lets you express yourself in ways that words can't capture. Our products include Bitstrips.com, Bitstrips for Schools, the Bitstrips mobile app, and our latest, Bitmoji - named by Google as one of the best apps of 2014.
Overview
Location
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$11M
Founded date
2007
Funding Rounds 2
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| Dec 12, 2013 | Series A round | $3M |
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Oct 30, 2014 | Bitstrips Raises $8m in Series B Funding | Bitstrips, a Toronto, Canada-based mobile comics startup, raised $8m in Series B funding. Backers included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Horizon Ventures. Led by CEO Jacob Blackstock, Bitstrips is a digital entertainment company ... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Bitstrips Closes $8M Series B As It Launches Custom Emoji App, Bitmoji | What happens when stickers and emoji collide in a bespoke mash-up that uses your own self-image as the canvas? Bitmoji happens that’s what: a new Android and iOS app from personalized comic strips app Bitstrips that lets you create a custom... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Bitstrips is Raising a Huge $15 million Series B Round | Toronto-based Bitstrips, the company that raised $3 million in December after its users had basically crashed the system creating over 30 million avatars, is raising some more money. According to Techcrunch, its actually raising a lot more ... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Bitstrips Is Raising $15 Million | Bitstrips, an app for building personalized comic strips, is raising a hefty Series B. We’ve heard from sources familiar with the matter that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is taking the lead. The deal hasn’t yet closed, so the amount... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bitstrips raises $3M for quirky personalized comics | The viral explosion of Bitstrips has resulted in outages, forcing Bitstrips to build out its system If you’re a Facebook regular, chances are you’ve seen the cute, quirky little comic scenes starring your friends. Bitstrips has become somet... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bitstrips Raises $3M Series A Funding from Horizons Ventures | According to an animated post on their newly launched blog, Bitstrips, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of an app for personalized comics, raised its Series A funding from Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures. The transaction reportedly amount... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bitstrips Confirms $3M Series A From Horizons, Sees 30M Avatars Created In Two Months | The old thought experiment asks: If you could travel back in time to prevent someone’s birth who would be capable of great evil, would you do it? Admittedly, sometimes while browsing Facebook I wrestle with this myself when I think about Bi... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | Bitstrips App: Awesome or Annoying? | We’ve seen quite a few Facebook fads over the years. Most Facebook users surely remember how popular the What People Think I Do and SomeEcards trends were (and still are, especially if you’re over 25). Now people have found another way to c... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Bitstrips bootstraps social comics on Facebook to 10M users and 50M unique cartoons | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Zero to 10 million users in less than seven months might just make social cartoon startup Bitstrips the hottest startup you’ve never he... |
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FAQ about Bitstrips
When was Bitstrips founded?
Bitstrips was founded in 2007.
How much funding has Bitstrips raised?
Bitstrips has raised $11M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Bitstrips raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Bitstrips, among them a Series A round of $3M on Dec 12, 2013.
What has the press written about Bitstrips?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Bitstrips, among them “Bitstrips Raises $8m in Series B Funding” (Oct 30, 2014) and “Bitstrips Closes $8M Series B As It Launches Custom Emoji App, Bitmoji” (Oct 29, 2014).
Is Bitstrips still active?
Yes, Bitstrips is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 26, 2016.