Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform for creative projects, reached a big milestone today: it’s now racked up $1 billion in pledges — with 5.7 million of us behind the effort. The company’s set up a stats page in honor of the event.
We’d been tracking the ticker and noted yesterday that it looked like the $1 billion mark would be passed any day now.
The effort has beed led in large part by backers from the U.S., where Kickstarter is based, with some $663 million in pledges. In total the platform sees contributions from 224 countries.
The startup has seen a massive acceleration in terms of interest from users — both with projects getting posted and people running to fund them. Some $500 million in funding was accumulated in the last 12 months alone. It’s come a long way: as a point of comparison, Kickstarter investor Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures notes that on its first day of business, on April 28, 2009, it saw seven pledges for a grand total of $1,084.
More to come.
No comments:
Post a Comment