| Website | befunky.com |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Phone | +90 533 385 50 43 |
| Employees | 9 |
| Founded | 1/07 |
| Description | Self expression online tools |
| Total | $800k |
| Seed, 1/07 | $250k |
| Series A, 6/08 Golden Horn Ventures | $550k |
BeFunky helps people turn their offline personalities within photos and videos into powerful online visual expressions. BeFunky holds to mission to let everyone become instant artists without the need of any talent nor technical knowledge.
The experience starts with a photo or video, and BeFunky tools turn it to a masterpiece work of art and give back to you within seconds.
Founded by engineers and cartoonists with a unique desire to integrate art and technology, BeFunky develops digital media tools that let people express themselves creatively in the photo & video arena. Our flagship product;
Cartoonizer - an online application that allows users to turn images and videos into digital paintings, cartoons and comics- is online at BeFunky.com and through social networks like facebook, myspace, friendster for about 8 months. It serves everyday over 1 million users creating, posting and sharing 50.000 cartoons.
BeFunky Labs recently innovated advanced tools interpreted into various artistic styles like oil painting, drafting, pen and ink-art, pop-art. And 100s more are in the pipeline that will be live within a couple months.
Our dream is ART ENGINE, which renders photos and videos in hundreds of different styles.
In developing these applications, BeFunky continues to help people all over the globe enhance the look and feel of their blogs, personal websites and profiles on social networking sites.
BeFunky’s presentation at TC40 2007.
Added: 4/5/08| Website | befunky.com |
| Launch Date | January 1, 2008 |
| Tags | avatar |
Cartoonizer is a super simple tool for creating cartoons of yourself. All you have to do is upload and crop your image and you can start using the tool to warp, sketch and color your cartoon.
The tool uses simple drag-and-drop sliders for the warp and color settings. It takes absolutely no technical skill in creating a great-looking digital representation.
| Website | befunky.com |
| Launch Date | January 1, 2008 |
| Tags | uvatar, avatar |
Uvatar is another fun tool that allows the user to make an exact online representation of themself for the avatar world. Users upload a clear image of themself to the BeFunky site and BeFunky creates a digital hand-drawn uvatar that users can play around with. Users can dress their uvatar in different tops, bottoms and accessories. They can put them in different scenes and backgrounds and equip them with musical instruments, scarves, dogs and cats. They can also choose to be a celebrity including Johnny Depp, George Clooney or Woody Allen.
Your uvatar can be used on your Facebook page, your personal blog, or your personal website. The uvatar can also be used on your mobile phone.
