{"id":21840,"date":"2010-06-16T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2010-06-16T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:44:17","slug":"bitway-invests-750000-in-crunchyroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/bitway-invests-750000-in-crunchyroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitway Invests $750,000 in Crunchyroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Crunchy_Way-450x74.jpg\" alt=\"Crunchy_Way\" title=\"Crunchy_Way\" width=\"450\" height=\"74\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Crunchy_Way-450x74.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Crunchy_Way-300x49.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Crunchy_Way.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese online content distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitway.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitway<\/a> has made a made a $750,000 USD strategic investment in San Francisco based video streaming site Crunchyroll. This is the third major cash infusion Crunchyroll has received since 2008. Venture capital firm Venrock invested  $4.05 million USD into Crunchyroll in early 2008. TV Tokyo acquired a $750,000 USD minority ownership of the company in March 2010. Bitway is a major Japanese distributor of digital books and manga and may plan to utilize Crunchyroll as a platform for English language digital distribution of Japanese print media.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-06-15\/e-book-pub-bitway-invests-us$750000-in-crunchyroll\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese online content distributor Bitway has made a made a $750,000 USD strategic investment in San Francisco based video streaming site Crunchyroll. This is the third major cash infusion Crunchyroll has received since 2008. Venture capital firm Venrock invested $4.05 million USD into Crunchyroll in early 2008. TV Tokyo acquired a $750,000 USD minority ownership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21842,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}