Since then it has beaten exploding kittens by more than $4 million dollars. When the project first launched it held the record for second most funded game on kickstarter behind exploding kittens which we’ll mention later. The original game was launched on Kickstarter in 2015 but the upgraded version is available for purchase now. According to Adam Poots it flopped but still raised $2,049,721 from more than 5,410 backers. Then his second attempt at crowdfunding was for the iPhone app version of Kingdom Death in 2009. In 2009 he launched a kickstarter to build a figurine called The Foresaker. The creator of Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, Adam Poots is not a stranger to crowdfunding. Even though Pebble was first to market, once bigger companies found there was demand they all had the money to execute faster and burn through cash faster. At this point in 2017 they were competing against Apple, Samsung, Garmin, TomTom and a flooded smartwatch market. Of the top 25 Kick starter projects of all time Pebble Technology is the only project to make the list more than once and they made it 3 times! Their biggest problem was not the technology or the demand, it was the infrastructure. This was Pebble Technology’s final kickstarter project before being purchased by Fitbit. It will keep your drink cold and the waterproof bluetooth speaker will keep everyone dancing. This cooler is probably the best product on this list because it’s made with parties in mind. But if you want ALL the bells and whistles like a built in blender, LED Lid Light and Battery USB Charger then the cooler will run you $299.99. With the improvement in technology the cooler is currently selling for $187.99 after an original price of $249.99. One of the few companies on this list that is still in business! Coolest Cooler turned the second most funded kickstarter project into a successful business. 2 years later after racking up millions in debt, Pebble was purchased by Fitbit for $23 Million. At this point in 2015 it looked like Pebble Technology was going to run away with the smartwatch market. This was the second kickstarter Pebble Technologies ran which beat their original kickstarter from 2012 by over $10 Million dollars. Technology was improving quickly and wearables were becoming visually appealing. The biggest kickstarter of all time hit the market at the perfect time. Here are the Top 20 Most Funded Kickstarter Projects of All Time #1 (Winner!) Pebble Time – $20,338,986 It has served as the launchpad of several successful businesses, especially technology based ones. Sites like Kickstarter allow for people without funding to take a good idea and generate the funding they need to turn it into a finished product. Kickstarter, pioneer of the crowdfunding model, was launched on Apby Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler. So let’s just get right into it! Kickstarter Backstory– The Origins It’s fun to see the trends change over time and see some of the older dominant players get knocked out with fresh competition. 8 of the top 20 projects are in the Game category but 6 of those 8 are card games. So it’s safe to say when it comes to kickstarter fame people love their technology. If you’re interested we wrote a huge post about using Kickstarter to launch new products you want to invent.īut breaking down this list we can see that 7 of 20 projects are in Technology but 5 of those 5 are in wearables. Of all these projects one of them is still active and new backers are joining every day. So we decided to give this post a fresh update because there have been some new projects in the top ranks. With the most recently published statistics available in 2019, Kickstarter has raised $4,408,258,903 and fully funded 166,437 projects.
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