They are available thanks to the release last year of its GIF creation app and a large community of users that have added and categorized a database of animated images and videos. It offers up a wide variety of media assets, all of which are categorized to make them easy to search and discover based on hashtag.Īccording to founder David McIntosh, Riffsy has hundreds of thousands of GIFs and videos available to choose from and insert inline directly into conversations users are having via text, iMessage, Twitter and email. Instead of using traditional emoji to express their feelings, Riffsy’s keyboard is designed to allow users to copy and paste a wide range of images and videos into conversations with friends and contacts. Other investors in the company include Initial Capital and John Riccitiello. Now, just about six weeks after the launch of its keyboard app, Riffsy is announcing it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Redpoint Ventures. A number of startups have introduced new ways for users to express themselves since then, but one of the most interesting is Riffsy, which has built a keyboard that makes it easy for users to insert animated GIFs to their conversations. When iOS 8 first became available a few months ago, there was a ton of excitement around custom keyboards being added to Apple’s mobile OS.
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