Denver-based Kwippit raises $2.5 million for its text messaging app with pictures
The Denver company seeks to replace emojis with “kick-ass images that amplify self-expression beyond what simple words can convey.”
Step aside, Ernest Hemingway. Kwippit, a Denver company, just got $2.5 million in new funding for its texting app that uses pictures to “amplify self-expression beyond what simple words can convey.”
Like this one.
(Courtesy of Kwippit)
So the idea is that you can use a library of images and add your own words in order to say something more emphatically than “K” while texting.
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