Crunchyroll LLC

Crunchyroll, LLC
Trade name	Crunchyroll
Formerly	Funimation, Inc. (1994–2020); Funimation Productions, Ltd. (1994–2005, 2011–2020); Funimation Entertainment (2005–2011); Funimation Global Group, LLC (2020–2022);
Company type	Joint venture
Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Anime
Founded	May 9, 1994, in Silicon Valley, California, U.S. (as Funimation); March 1, 2022 (as Crunchyroll)
Founder	Gen Fukunaga; Cindy Brennan;
Headquarters	Coppell, Texas, U.S.
Key people	Rahul Purini (CEO); Asa Suehira (CCO);
Products	Anime; motion pictures; Japanese/East Asian cinema; home video;
Brands	Crunchyroll
Services	Streaming; television;
Owners	Sony Pictures Television (2017–present); Aniplex (2019–present);
Number of employees	400 (2022)
Divisions	Crunchyroll Channel (joint venture with Game Show Network, LLC); Crunchyroll EMEA; Crunchyroll Games; Crunchyroll Store; Crunchyroll Store Australia; Crunchyroll UK and Ireland;

Crunchyroll, LLC, d/b/a Crunchyroll, is an American entertainment company based in Coppell, Texas, focused on the distribution and licensing of anime, films, and television series. The company, then known as Funimation Productions, was founded in May 1994, by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills and later Flower Mound, Texas.

Funimation was acquired by Navarre Corporation in May 2005; in April 2011, Navarre sold Funimation to a group of investors that included Fukunaga for $24 million. The company was acquired by Sony in 2017 and rebranded to Crunchyroll, LLC in March 2022 after acquiring the streaming service of the same name in August 2021.

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