Do you wonder what the biggest Kickstarter ever is? Over the years, Kickstarter has helped fund an impressive number of projects from a diverse variety of fields: films, video games, journalism, the food industry, comics, music, and so on. The concept is very easy: someone comes up with a project idea, chooses a deadline, and a funding goal. People then donate money to the project, in return for a tangible reward, other than financial profit. If the funding goal is not reached within the deadline imposed by the project creator, the funds are not collected.
Notable people and projects have gained success as a result of their collaboration with Kickstarter: musicians Daniel Johnston, Amanda Palmer, and Stuart Murdoch, actors Colin Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Matthew Modine, and many others.
We would like to present you with a top ten list of the biggest Kickstarter campaigns in history, based on the funds raised, in a style similar to our coverage of the world’s fastest growing companies.
Let’s take a look at the biggest Kickstarter ever and the ones that came in a close second:
No. 10: Wasteland 2
Funds raised (US$): 2,933,252
Project creator: InXile Entertainment
Project category: Video Games
Funded (%): 325
No. of donors: 61,290
Deadline: 2012-04-17
No. 9: FORM 1: An affordable, professional 3D printer
Funds raised (US$): 2,945,885
Project creator: Formlabs
Project category: Technology
Funded (%): 2,945
No. of donors: 2,068
Deadline: 2012-10-26
No. 8: Wish I Was Here
Funds raised (US$): 3,105,473
Project creator: Zach Braff
Project category: Narrative Film
Funded (%):155
No. of donors: 46,520
Deadline: 2013-05-24
No. 7: Double Fine Adventure
Funds raised (US$): 3,336,371
Project creator: Double Fine & 2 Player Productions
Project category: Video Games
Funded (%): 834
No. of donors: 87,142
Deadline: 2012-03-13
No. 6: Reaper Miniatures Bones: An Evolution of Gaming Miniatures
Funds raised (US$): 3,429,235
Project creator: Reaper Miniatures
Project category: Games
Funded (%):11,430
No. of donors: 17,744
Deadline: 2012-08-25
No. 5: Project Eternity
Funds raised (US$): 3,986,929
Project creator: Obsidian Entertainment
Project category: Video Games
Funded (%): 362
No. of donors: 73,986
Deadline: 2012-10-16
No. 4: Torment: Tides of Numenera
Funds raised (US$): 4,188,927
Project creator: InXile Entertainment
Project category: Video Games
Funded (%): 465
No. of donors: 74,405
Deadline: 2013-04-05
No. 3: The Veronica Mars Movie
Funds raised (US$): 5,702,153
Project creator: Rob Thomas
Project category: Film and Video
Funded (%): 285
No. of donors: 91,585
Deadline: 2013-04-12
No. 2: Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console
Funds raised (US$): 8,596,474
Project creator: Ouya Inc.
Project category: Video Games
Funded (%): 905
No. of donors: 63,416
Deadline: 2012-08-09
No. 1: Pebble: E-Paper Watch (App for iPhone and Android)
Funds raised (US$): 10,266,845
Project creator: Pebble Technology
Project category: Design
Funded (%):10,266
No. of donors: 68,928
Deadline: 2012-05-18
