Kickstarter has started off the new year by announcing that 2014 saw more than $500 million pledged by more than three million backers to the website’s various projects. Of the amount that was pledged, a fifth of it went to projects within the technology category, although only 1,124 of those projects were able to successfully reach their funding goal.
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter released its 2014 breakdown yesterday, trumpeting a total of $529 million pledged by 3.3 million backers. (NB: Pledged dollars do not equal spent dollars, given that crowdfunding pledges are not necessarily concrete unless a project is successfully funded.) The technology category attracted the largest single chunk of backing ($125 million pledged), putting a partial value on people’s hankering for sci-fi gadgetry. However tech was far from being the most successfully funded category, with just 1,124 tech projects funded in 2014. The most successful categories for being funded on Kickstarter were music (4,009), film & video (3,846), and publishing (2,064).
