“Anipipo” Bringing Animation to the New Era

Tokyo, Japan – October 25, 2012 – GOOPA Inc., the animation focused crowd-funding website company, announced that it has closed 4.5 Million Japanese Yen in Seed funding from Samurai Incubate Inc., a Tokyo-based seed accelerator. Kentaro Sakakibara from Samurai Incubate Inc. also joined the team as an external director.

GOOPA Inc., is a creative IT service development company based in Tokyo and Bangkok. The company is developing an animation focused crowdfunding website, Anipipo (http://en.anipipo.com). Anipipo provides a new way for animation creators to find funding to support the production of their animation. Creators will also be able to utilize Anipipo as a platform to get connected with their fans from all over the world.

Along with this announcement, GOOPA Inc., will be launching the preregistration website for Anipipo http://en.anipipo.com) on Thursday 25th of October.

About Us
Company Name: GOOPA Inc.
Company Address: Minami-aoyama Building 4F, 2-11-13,
Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 107-0062
Established: 7th September, 2011
Co-founder and CEO: Hiroaki Taira
Co-founder and CFO: Vincent Sethiwan
Co-founder and CTO: Sam Tiyavutiroj
Business domain: IT service development and management