Kickstarter has garnered over $2 billion in pledges since it launched in 2009
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Kickstarter announced today that it’s crossed $2 billion in pledges, as of October 11, from over 9.5 million backers since the crowdfunding platform launched in April 2009. The company built a special page to highlight notable facts and figures, and there are lots of them to give you an idea of how crowdfunding has grown in the past six years. Kickstarter backers pledged the second billion three times faster than the first billion It took nearly five years to hit the $1 billion pledge mark in March 2014; the next billion was raised in just a third of that time…
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