Fresh Ink: Welcoming VoyceMe, the Fan-Driven Content, Community, and Creator Hub for Manga, Anime, and More

Investors: Annie Kadavy and Meera Clark

The Scoop: Ever dream of a one-stop shop to discover, consume, create, and converse about all things manga, anime, and webtoons? Enter VoyceMe, a fan-driven entertainment platform where consumers can discover, engage with, and create content together. With a mission of empowering creators and storytellers, VoyceMe leverages proprietary generative tooling and a global network of artists to power the fastest, cheapest, and most immersive content production in the market.

Earned Insight:

The Opportunity: With manga and anime presenting two of the fastest growing categories across global entertainment, there has never been a greater thirst for this sort of digital hub. As anime titles take over Netflix and manga-inspired art infiltrates everywhere from McDonalds to the NFL, anime and manga are expected to double in size from 2020 to 2028.

Yet while the 100M+ manga and anime fans globally continue to thirst for more content, content production today is slow and incredibly expensive. The introduction of AI flips content generation in this category on its head, democratizing access by dramatically bringing down the cost and time required to publish a new series, while enabling creators across the world to reorient their energy away from mundane, repetitive tasks and towards more creative and high impact endeavors. With VoyceMe, these creators are unlocking access to both a proprietary generation engine that has been fine-tuned on the company’s sizable and growing corpus of owned IP and the platform’s engaged audience of fans who are eager to consume, share feedback, and engage with these titles to bring them to life in a way that was never possible before.This symbiotic relationship allows for rapid content production while maintaining a high standard of quality, ensuring that the platform remains a hub of creativity and inspiration.

Accelerating Adoption: Very rarely do we see consumer companies top 8M monthly views almost entirely organically To us, this underscores the clear market appetite for the content that VoyceMe is curating and producing as a young and scrappy startup. With leading titles on the platform generating 10M+ views already, VoyceMe has proven that it is indeed capable of producing hits. And we cannot wait for many more to come!

The Investor Perspective: At Redpoint, we believe that the future of entertainment will be community-driven, and that AI will continue to transform the toolkits of creators across these diverse and dynamic communities. As VoyceMe opens up this opportunity in the worlds of manga, anime, and webtoons, we’re excited to be partnering with Dylan for this next chapter of growth.

We’re thrilled to announce our investment in VoyceMe, where we’re joining a passionate group of supporters like industry insiders Matt Finick, former CFO of ROBLOX and Marvel Studios, and Rob Pereyda, former Head of Anime Editorial & Publishing at Netflix, as well as institutional friends like Torch, Red Sea, and Bessemer. Whether you're a seasoned manga artist, a passionate anime fan, or simply someone who appreciates the art of storytelling, read more about the fundraising announcement here – and embrace your inner manga nerd here!