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By August 2015, BauBax had raised $3.7 million and was the most funded clothing project in Kickstarter history. [65] By September 11, 2015, it had raised $9.7 million. [ 66 ] The Travel Jacket comes with 15 unique features including a built-in Neck Pillow, Eye Mask, Gloves, Earphone Holders, Drink Pocket and Tech Pockets of all sizes.
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]
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.
Following on the success of the Order of the Stick Kickstarter project, in February 2012, author Rob Balder launched the Erfworld "Year of the Dwagon" Kickstarter, seeking funding for a motion comic project. The Kickstarter was extremely successful, resulting in funding of almost $85,000, making it the fourth-largest comics category Kickstarter ...
The project was established on Kickstarter, a crowdsourcing website, and reached its goal ($500K) in 17 minutes, $1M in 49 minutes, $10.3M in 2 days, breaking another Kickstarter goal, and finally earning $20.4M by its deadline on 3 March 2015, making it the most funded Kickstarter project to date. [7]
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 ...
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. “Art for art’s sake was really important ...
As of 2015, Exploding Kittens stood as the third-biggest campaign ever mounted on Kickstarter. [8] It launched with an initial goal of US$10,000, but by the end of the first day, the campaign had raised $1,333,586 from nearly 35,000 backers. By Day 4, it had raised more than $3,500,000 from more than 91,000 backers. [9]