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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 ...
Grepper was a product developer from Portland, Oregon. He first tried to raise funding for the product in November 2013 but fell short of the $125,000 goal and failed to secure any funding. He launched a second campaign on July 8, 2014, and critics attribute the success of the second Kickstarter campaign to the timing. [4]
Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Not only did the campaign exceed the $750,000 goal, but the campaign also broke the Kickstarter record for most money raised for projects in the "film" category. [80] Mystery Science Theater 3000 raised a total of $5,764,229 with 48,270 backers in December 2015 to create 14 episodes of the new series, including a holiday special. [81] [82]