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Over R5 million was pledged on Kickstarter from SA last year

2014 was an amazing year for international crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. They racked up the most amount of successfully funded projects ever and the total funding pledged by backers grew by 10% from  $480 million (over R5 billion) in 2013 to over $500 million (around R6 billion) in 2014.

Kickstarter made this announcement this on its website, in a post titled “The Year in Kickstarter 2014“, after gathering all its data.

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In short, Kickstarter said 3.3 million from around the world backers pledged on the site, helping 22 252 projects successfully reach and/or surpass their funding goals.

August was Kickstarter’s best month with the most successfully backed projects, Wednesday afternoon was the most popular day and time for pledging, the music category had the most successful projects, while technology had the highest amount of money pledged.

Over 3 000 backers in South Africa pledged a total amount of $517 600 (over R5 million) to various projects.

Some of Kickstarter’s other most successful projects went on to achieve other great feats such as being nominated for an Oscar award and being listed among TIME’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014.

“New ideas, big and small,came from people everywhere. And millions of people worked together to make them a reality. Thanks for letting us be a part of it.We can’t wait to see what’s next,” Kickstarter said.

See a snapshot of all the numbers, here and see in depth data on the site’s public stats page.

[Source – Kickstarter, Image – Shutterstock]

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