Emojifi Raises Seed Funding, Partners with Sunny Leone to Launch Authentic Emojis and Stickers

Emojifi ,which is an app that provides live emoji, sticker & GIF suggestions based on the typed words across chat platforms, has raised an angel round with two lead angel investors from Hyderabad. Funding will be used for marketing and to build the product further. Emojifi has a very innovative and robust product pipeline which they plan to implement in the near future.

Emojifi removes the hassle of searching for relevant emojis/stickers in a very innovative way without disrupting the user experience. Emojifi provides these suggestions without the need to install a separate keyboard (for Andriod phones) and also allows the users to tag any word to any emoji/sticker (patent pending) to get customized suggestions in the language of their choice. The beauty of emojfi's functionality is that you can use emojifi on almost all chat and communication apps. All you need to do is download the stickers you want to use.

Emojifi Founding team: Emojifi is the brainchild of Varun MS, Manan Maheshwari and Mahesh Gogineni who are alums of BITS-Pilani, Duke University and Stanford GSB. They are a balanced and capable team with great executional capabilities. The trio have complementary skill sets and great understanding among themselves - with a successful exit already under their belt from their previous startup, Zapluk (acquired by Quikr). Soon after the exit, the trio launched the beta version of emojifi in October 2016 and officially launched emojifi in Jan 2017.

Emojifi has partnered with Sunny Leone and have already launched their authentic stickers on it’s platform. The stickers can be downloaded and used by the brand’s users or the celebrity’s fan base across chat platforms i.e. Whatsapp, fb messenger, hike etc and the usage is not limited to just one chat app. All the stickers will be available on emojifi app which is available on Google playstore and App Store. Emojifi will soon be launching stickers for a few brands and is also in final rounds of discussions to get on-board one of the biggest celebrities in India as an investor.

Emojifi is enabling brands not only to enter but be a part of context driven human messaging/private chat space(which hasn’t been done by anyone in the past) without disrupting the user experience. Users are spending an increasing amount of time on messaging platforms and emojifi provides a great avenue for brands to enter the chat space.

Emojifi’s concept is entirely unique - In a nutshell Emojifi is a mobile engagement platform that enables celebrities and brands to target consumers and fans they want to reach, in the environments in which those consumers are most engaged(i.e the private chat space), all enriched with insightful analytics. Emojifi envisions to become the platform where the celebrities will be able to host their authentic emojis/stickers and Gifs/curated content and also connect with the appropriate brands.