15 Most-Funded Crowdfunding Projects On Kickstarter And Indiegogo
2014 was a great year for crowdfunding. Kickstarter had 22,252 projects raising a total of $529 million, up from $480 million raised in 2013. Indiegogo had 1,000% increase in funds raised over the past two years and both Indiegogo and Kickstarter had their most-funded projects ever in 2014.
This year is already shaping up as the greatest ever for the young industry, with three 2015 projects already making it to the list of 15 most-funded crowdfunding projects on Kicstarter and Indeigogo:
1. $13,285,226 from 62,642 funders August 2014 (Kickstarter)
Coolest Cooler: 21st Century cooler that’s actually cooler, complete with built-in ice crushing blender, a waterproof bluetooth speaker and a USB charger.
2. $10,266,845 from 68,929 funders May 2012 (Kickstarter)
Pebble: E-paper watch for iPhone and Android, customizable watch with downloadable watchfaces, sports and fitness apps, notifications from mobile phone.
3. $8,782,571 from 219,382 funders February 2015 (Kickstarter)
Exploding Kittens: A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.
4. $8,596,474 from 63,416 funders August 2012 (Kickstarter)
OUYA: A new kind of video game console, cracking open the last closed platform, the TV; a beautiful, affordable console, built on Android.
5. $6,225,354 from 18,220 funders April 2014 (Kickstarter)
Pono Music: Where your soul rediscovers music, providing the best possible listening experience of your favorite digital music. With the PonoPlayer, you can finally feel the master in all its glory, in its native resolution, CD quality or higher, the way the artist made it, exactly.
6. $5,702,153 from 91,585 funders April 2013 (Kickstarter)
The Veronica Mars Movie Project, a feature film version of the defunct television series.
7. $5,408,916 from 105,857 funders July 2014 (Kickstarter)
Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere! Bring Reading Rainbow’s library of interactive books & video field trips to more platforms & provide free access to classrooms in need.
8. $5,022,041 (including $2.5 million matched contributions) from 2,801 funders December 2014 (indiegogo)
Code.org, introducing coding to 100 million students.
9. $4,188,927 from 74,405 funders April 2013 (Kickstarter)
Torment: Tides of Numenera, a story-driven Computer Role-Playing Game (CRPG) set in the world of Monte Cook’s Numenera.
10. $3,986,929 from 73,986 funders October 2012 (Kickstarter)
Project Eternity, an isometric, party-based computer RPG set in a new fantasy world.
11. $3,845,170 from 67,226 funders October 2013 (Kickstarter)
Mighty No. 9, a video game
12. $3,602,037 from 12,075 funders January 2015 (Kickstarter)
ZANO, the world’s most sophisticated nano drone.
13. $3,576,151+ from 6,548 funders ends March 3, 2015 (Indiegogo)
Sondors Electric Bike, the world’s most affordable, versatile electric bike.
14. $3,429,235 from 17,744 funders August 2012 (Kickstarter)
Reaper Miniatures Bone: Gaming miniatures.
15. $3,401,361 from 11,855 funders May 2014 (Kickstarter)
The Micro: The first truly consumer 3D printer.
[Originally published on Forbes.com]
4 billion people buying phones every 2 years instead of 1.6 billion buying PCs every 5 years
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Small drones market to reach $8.4 billion by 2018
The Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) market will surpass US$8.4 billion by 2018 according to new research published by ABI Research entitled Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Solutions Ecosystem. By 2019 the Commercial sector will dominate the overall sUAS market with revenues exceeding US$5.1 billion (51% 2014 to 2019 CAGR), roughly 5x larger than the Prosumer/Hobby market, and 2.3x greater than the Military/Civil market segment. Moreover, it is application services—industry specific applications, as well as data, operator and modeling services—and not platforms and other hardware technologies, which will be the key driver for the growth of the Commercial sector.
Ongoing research advancements, technological developments, and rapidly dropping prices for increasingly capable enabling technologies, have combined to remove barriers to innovation and commercialization, and spur the development of new sUAS and increase the ways they can be applied. For this study, the sUAS market was not defined by, or limited to, the unmanned aerial system platforms and airframes alone, but also includes other technologies, products and services that are ancillary to, and often necessary for, the use of small unmanned vehicles, along with the many applications enabled by them.
Source: ABI
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5.2 billion mobile users, 292 billion gigabytes mobile traffic by 2019
| In February 2015, Cisco released the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections:
By 2019:
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Bring Your Own Glass (BYOG): 90% of smart glasses will be sold to enterprises in 2015
ABI Research expects 2015 to be a big year for smart glasses with unit shipment growth of nearly 150% in 2015, almost of all of which will be in the enterprise and public sector. The market intelligence firm expects over 90% of smart glasses to be sold in to the enterprise or public sector in 2015 e.g., remote assistance, police and military, security, warehouse and barcode scanning, and, in the consumer space for gaming.
“Smart glasses were much hyped in 2014 as a smartphone replacement, largely on the back Google’s Glass product announced in early 2013,” commented ABI Research Senior Practice Director Nick Spencer. “However, 2014 showed the use case for smart glasses is task specific, for example remote assistance, security (facial and number plate recognition), augmented reality, and virtual reality. The Google Glass generalized use case is a primary reason for the changes announced last week.”
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