Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a crowd-funded campaign website popular with YouTubers, musicians, and webcomic artists. It allows artists and creators to let backers back their projects such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food in limited period should this be all-for-nothing. If the project does not reach at least 100% funding or more, it's unsuccessful. If it reaches at least 100% or more, then backers will bring this project to life.
This New York based company was started by co-founders Perry Chen, Yancey Stricler and Charles Adler in 2009. Kickstarter has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New York Times etc.
It has around 16 to 17 million backers with $4 to 4.5 billion dollars pledged in projects with 160 to 170 thousand successful projects.
==History==
Kickstarter was founded in April 2009, a year after Indiegogo by founders Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler. The company raised $10 million dollars in coming years.
Sometime in 2015, Kickstarter became a public benefit company.
For several years, it raised $1 to 3 billion in bringing over 100,000 projects to life so the company signed up more than 9 to 15 million backers.
==Model==
Artists, photographers, producers, directors set up campaigns to create projects on Kickstarter with single sum after being successful.
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