Kickstarter has raised more than $200 million from 2 million backers, cofounder Yancey Strickler said on stage at Wired's business conference in Manhattan Tuesday morning. That money has funded more than 22,000 projects in the three years the crowdfunding platform has been in business, he added.
Less positively, Strickler said that 56% of projects don’t meet their fundraising goals. He also said that it's not that difficult to get your project approved: Only 5% of project proposals are rejected.
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To many, Kickstarter is viewed as a platform for finding and funding consumer tech products like this robotic puppet. But those kinds of items only make up about 5% of projects on the platform and get a disproportionate amount of press, Strickler said. Film is actually the most popular project category. Twelve Kickstarter-funded films appeared in the Tribeca Film Festival this year.
Strickler added that music is not nearly as a successful a category as he thinks it could be, and expects to see greater growth as musicians and other industry professionals learn to harness the platform.
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Check out the slideshow below for some of the wildest Kickstarter projects we saw last year.
1. Portals
Funded: $1,934
This project uses a box and an old monitor to simulate virtual reality. It is an incredibly cool project, but its Kickstarter backers shouldn't expect anything in return other than a "big happy thank you."
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