Sources: a16z Crypto made a secret $100M investment in Kickstarter in 2021 that let staff and investors cash out and led to its later-abandoned blockchain pivot
In early December 2021, employees at the crowdfunding startup Kickstarter got news of a windfall: An investor group wanted to buy some of their shares.
Paris-based video game developer Novaquark, which had raised $11.4M on Kickstarter in 2018 for its Dual Universe MMO game, has raised $11.2M in VC funding
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Kickstarter says game projects on the site have brought $1B+ in donations to creators since 2009, with $236M going to video games and $21M to gaming hardware
This is a card game for people … Trin Garritano / Kickstarter : $1 Billion (and Counting) Pledged to Games Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Kickstarter's Games category passes $1 billion in total funding
ZTE shuts down its Hawkeye phone Kickstarter campaign after reaching only $36K of its $500K goal
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ZTE shuts down its Hawkeye phone Kickstarter campaign after reaching only $36K of its $500K goal
After a month and a half of letting its Hawkeye phone flounder on Kickstarter, ZTE is finally ending the campaign. It received $36,245 out of its $500,000 funding goal.
Study: Kickstarter has created 8.8K companies, 29.6K full-time jobs, and $5.3B for project owners and their communities
A new study by the University of Pennsylvania provides the first comprehensive look at how the Kickstarter community impacts the creative economy. The study finds that Kickstarter projects have:
Kickstarter paid dividends to its shareholders this spring, an unusual move for a non-public VC-backed startup
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Kickstarter paid dividends to its shareholders this spring, an unusual move for a non-public VC-backed startup
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Kickstarter just hit 100,000 successfully funded campaigns
Kickstarter hit a big milestone overnight: the successful funding of a 100,000th campaign. It's taken Kickstarter nearly seven years to reach 100,000 funded projects, but the rate at which projects a...
Kickstarter passes $2B in pledges: games have taken $412.4M, the most money of any category, followed by tech with $360M and design with $351.6M
ON OCTOBER 11, THE KICKSTARTER COMMUNITY … Mariella Moon / Engadget : Kickstarter's 9.5 million users have pledged over $2 billion Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Kickstarter has garnered over $2 b...