Crunchyroll
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site
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Video streaming service |
| Founded | May 14, 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Owner | Ellation (Otter Media) (80%) TV Tokyo (20%) |
| Key people | Kun Gao (Co-founder and CEO) |
| Industry | Anime industry, anime, Manga, Asian drama and video on demand |
| Parent | Otter Media |
| Subsidiaries | Crunchyroll Manga |
| Slogan(s) | The Official Source for Anime & Drama |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 979 |
| Registration | Optional |
Crunchyroll, Inc. is an American website and international online community focused on video streaming East Asian media including anime, manga, drama, music, electronic entertainment, and auto racing content. Founded in 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduates,[2] Crunchyroll's distribution channel and partnership program delivers content to over twenty million online community members worldwide.[3] Crunchyroll's majority shareholder is Otter Media, owned by AT&T and The Chernin Group.
Crunchyroll offers over 200 anime shows, more than 200 Asian dramas to users, and 50 manga titles, although not all programming is available worldwide due to licensing restrictions.[5] In the United States, Crunchyroll also will release select anime shows on home video through a partnership with Funimation.[6]
Crunchyroll started in 2006 as a for-profit video upload and streaming site that specialized in hosting East Asian video content. Some of the content hosted on Crunchyroll included fansubbed versions of East Asian shows.
In 2008, Crunchyroll secured a capital investment of $4.05 million from the venture capital firm Venrock. The investment drew criticism from anime distributors and licensors Bandai Entertainment and Funimation as the site continued to allow users to upload illegal copies of licensed titles.
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