{"id":837863,"date":"2024-07-27T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837863"},"modified":"2024-07-27T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:22:15","slug":"toonsutra-raises-funding-from-funimation-founder-gen-fukunaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/27\/toonsutra-raises-funding-from-funimation-founder-gen-fukunaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Toonsutra raises funding from Funimation founder Gen Fukunaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukunaga, a Japanese-American engineer and entrepreneur, sold Funimation to Sony Pictures Entertainment, which has merged it with Crunchyroll to create the world&#8217;s leading anime digital platform. Goldman Sachs has predicted that Crunchyroll will contribute 36% of Sony Pictures Entertainment&#8217;s profit by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Toonsutra, Fukunaga said, &#8220;The webtoon market is experiencing explosive growth globally, reminiscent of the anime boom we saw with Funimation. Toonsutra&#8217;s innovative approach to bringing world-class content to Indian audiences, combined with their deep understanding of local preferences, positions them perfectly to capitalise on this trend. I&#8217;m excited to bring my experience in building global fan communities to help Toonsutra become the definitive platform for digital comics and pop culture in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukunaga, a Japanese-American engineer and entrepreneur, sold Funimation to Sony Pictures Entertainment, which has merged it with Crunchyroll to create the world&#8217;s leading anime digital platform. Goldman Sachs has predicted that Crunchyroll will contribute 36% of Sony Pictures Entertainment&#8217;s profit by 2028. Commenting on Toonsutra, Fukunaga said, &#8220;The webtoon market is experiencing explosive growth globally, reminiscent of the anime boom we saw with Funimation. Toonsutra&#8217;s innovative approach to bringing world-class content to Indian audiences, combined with their deep understanding of local preferences, positions them perfectly to capitalise on this trend. I&#8217;m excited to bring my experience in building global fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}