Bitstrips Closes $8M Series B As It Launches Custom Emoji App, Bitmoji — techcrunch.com

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 avatar — by choosing your face shape, haircut and color, and so on — and then have the app turn your cartoon likeness into custom emoji and stickers. If you think that sounds a bit like extant Bitstrips, the point is to support a whole lot more granular customization — with “literally billions” of possible combinations claimed enabling you to avatarize your unique snowflakeness. If I can put it like that.

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