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When the campaign closed, it was one of the most quickly funded in Kickstarter history, and was the most funded Kickstarter for TV and film projects. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to The Legend of Vox Machina , and had commissioned 14 additional episodes (two additional ...
Uber's second Kickstarter project after Planetary Annihilation in September 2012. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled 4 November end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. Not funded [126] [127] Pathologic: Ice-Pick Lodge: Kickstarter: Oct 7, 2014: $250,000 $333,127 Psychological horror video game.
The Oculus Rift began as a 2012 Kickstarter project and became one of the most funded projects at the time. The company was then acquired by Facebook two years later for $2 billion. [ 66 ] Peloton Interactive sold its first exercise bike on Kickstarter in 2013 with an early bird price tag of $1,500.
In the summer of 2014, Ryan Grepper raised over $13 million, making it the most funded Kickstarter campaign of 2014. [2] In December 2019, the company announced that it was closing, with over 20,000 of the 62,642 original backers never receiving a cooler. [3] The project came to be regarded as Kickstarter's largest failure. [3]
Kevin Sousa At the beginning of 2014, Kevin Sousa broke records when he raised $310,255 on Kickstarter for his new restaurant Superior Motors. It was the site's most-funded restaurant project to ...
This is a list of the highest-funded equity crowdfunding projects. Rank Project Category Sum Platform Investors notes References 1 BrewDog: Brewery: £72,754,050
Crowdfunding is a means to raise money for a project by eliciting funds from potential users of the completed project. [1] While no third party is required for crowdfunding to occur, web sites like Kickstarter have been created to act as an intermediate in the process: they create space for project creators to share their project, provide ways for users to pledge their funds, and then supply ...
It was the most that had ever been pledged to a Kickstarter project—and a testament to its mission to put authority back into the hands of creators. ... They pointed to recently funded projects ...