Talk:List of highest funded crowdfunding projects/Archive 1

fundings to add

 * Probably worth adding the new Pebble 2 kickstarter which is currently on $10,538,066 (with 21 days still to go with the campaign) - Bag (talk) 11:08, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * the Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter campaign will definitely be on here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.203.130.213 (talk) 20:22, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Maidsafe - It should be in the top ten, no confirmed numbers!
 * (1827 Investors), Protonet, 2014
 * (640 Investors), Hab Housing Limited, 2013  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smellofant (talk • contribs) 13:39, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ongoing, Chapel Down Group plc
 * Con man raised $3,156,179USD (link) Xavdid (talk) 21:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Battletech (video game) raised $2,785,537 on Kickstarter
 * Divinity: Original Sin 2 raised $2,032,434
 * Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night raised $5,545,991
 * Zombicide: Black Plague raised $4,079,204
 * Yooka-Laylee raised £2,090,104
 * Dwarven Forge's Modular City Builder Terrain System raised $2,359,260
 * Dwarven Forge's Caverns raised $2,140,851
 * Crowfall raised $1,766,204
 * The Bard's Tale IV raised $1,519,680
 * The swiss ski resort Saas-Fee crowdfunded its season passes to ensure its future. It seems to be Europes largest crowdfunding wich raised 23.5Mio USD so far (ongoing). It's not a tech crowdfunding though, which most of the projects in the list are. source in german http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2811672/ Venkmanpeterdr (talk) 08:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Dark Souls the Board Game has 4,228,151 as of 2106 US Eastern Time on 5/14/2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.191.170.38 (talk) 01:06, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Number of campaigns with more than N backers
—  Ark25  (talk) 16:49, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Number of campaigns with more than N Dollars raised
—  Ark25  (talk) 20:56, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Kickstarter projects by category
Amount raised and number of backers for campaigns ranked 1st, 50th and 100th by amount raised, on each category (as of 15 September 2013):

See also: KickStarter stats —  Ark25  (talk) 16:49, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

How is "successful" defined?
Is "successful" defined as "product shipped", or "promoters got the money"? --John Nagle (talk) 20:23, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry for the delay. "Successful" is defined as "promoters got the money" (successful campaign). —  Ark25  (talk) 13:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * There should be a column for "Product shipped". That's "success". John Nagle (talk) 20:12, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Gosnell Movie and difficulty of maintaining this list
I think it is going to be difficult to maintain this list. For example, the Gosnell Movie by Phelim McAleer has already raised over $1.3 million on Indiegogo and that puts in it in the top 7 of Indiegogo projects, but it is not listed. Also, time goes by and more people learn about crowdfunding the number and size of projects is going to jump exponentially. Just a thought.--NK (talk) 22:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Dota 2 Compendium - The International 4
For The_International_(video_gaming) and TI4 Compendium site. Would this be classed as a crowd funding project since it crowd funds the prize pool of the tournament, or because they market it as selling compendiums and only part of the sales going towards a crowd sourced project it is not counted as such? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salle81 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance?
Has raised 2.3 million total..

Raised £1,106,371 on kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294225970/kingdom-come-deliverance/description

https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com/

Removing Ethereum
I'm removing Ethereum from this list as the two references cited are a link to the homepage of the project and a Reddit post which links back to this article. DigitalImpostor (talk) 16:36, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * * Agree — For reasons set out in this article

This page is either misnamed or has the wrong title
The way this page is currently organized, it should be named List of crowdfunding projects that have brought in the most money, all time. For example... I'm sure there are many more but I didn't go through everything. I was suspicious of the bottom two which were exactly $1M dollars. I suggest two changes:
 * Given the page's current name, the $ column is just wrong. Star Citizen raised $2,134,374, not $93 million. Sales after a campaign are just sales, not crowdfunding.
 * How much has Elio motors actually received? It's hard to tell. By some measures, it's $40M and still going, but they have been raising money for almost three years -- that isn't strictly comparable to almost all of the other crowdfunding campaigns in the list.
 * Pebble Time -- ah, this is actually the $ they raised in their crowdfunding campaign. They should be at the top of the list [note: I do not own a Pebble Time nor do I have anything to do with the company]
 * Prison Architect and BauBax add numbers from multiple campaigns.
 * Amounts in Euros and Pounds should be converted at the time the campaign ended, not current dollars. Items shouldn't move up and down in the list as currencies fluctuate! Some do this, some don't (e.g., LIX).
 * Divinity raised $944,282, not $1,000,000. (I corrected)
 * Stromberg says they raised exactly €1M, not $1M, but it is a special case and may not belong in the list. They offered a fixed number of shares for sale, which return a share of the profit, and I could find no indications of whether they sold out or exactly how many they sold. I couldn't find where they did this since I don't read German. (I did not correct given the confusion)
 * 1) Rename Amount Raised to Total $ Received, All Time. There should be a note/footnote for this header that says numbers may be out of date. This is interesting information and should be maintained, but it is distracting to what the page is actually supposed to represent.
 * 2) Add a new column named Amount Raised and put the total amount raised in the actual campaign in that column. When a large campaign closes, the $ raised is fixed and never changes. This column should be the default sort order. Items don't move up and down as they sell more post-campaign.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyLeban (talk • contribs) 06:54, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Star Citizen's crowdfunding total is incorrect.
Star Citizen's crowdfunding total is incorrect. Much of the amount listed is actually from cash shop sales from selling ships. It is at least in the 10s of millions and is possibly over 50 million of the total amount there. I don't think there has been a clearly established line between what counts as pre-orders, cash shop sales, pre-order cash shop sales, and crowdfunding, but I think when you are selling digital content that is already available in some form in some kind of interactive product (even if it isn't the full game) that no longer counts as crowdfunding but has moved to a regular monetization revenue streams. I haven't done any of the math to figure out how much should be removed from the star citizen total, and that might not even be possible until people come to some kind of agreement for what counts as crowdfunding and what doesn't, but it is probably a discussion that needs to be had. That's my two cents anyway. 72.190.44.52 (talk) 19:12, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Wasn't incorrect. It just needed to be updated. Also it doesn't matter what you're offering in exchange: it's still crowdfunding. There's no crowdfunding project anywhere that doesn't offer something in exchange for your money. If not it'd be called "charity". KurtMaverick (talk) 18:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

The DAO is Crowdfunding
The DAO is crowdfunding because it's not buying stock in a company, it's investing in a fund (The DAO) Legionof7 (talk) 23:09, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

This is definitely crowdfunding. The reason is simple, DAO = "Decentralized Autonomous Organization", this is the project of creation of an Entity (The DAO). It has also a limited time of funding. It does not have to be a video game, it is not just "funds", this is the funding of a company by non-conventional ways, albeit it is still a crowdfunding, it complies to the very core definition of crowdfunding according to Wikipedia Article. The DAO is clearly project funded by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, in return for DAO Tokens for which there will be no more created once the crowdsale is complete. shideneyu (talk) 11:27, 14 May 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.178.186.47 (talk)


 * * Oppose' — For reasons set out in this rambling opinion piece by some random person.

.. y'all seriously can't base an oppose decision on an article entitled "Ethereum is a scam".. there are multinational banks using ethereum as a proof of concept network because of its veracity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.140.76 (talk) 01:47, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

The money is not locked because the DAO token are tradable right after they will be created. Can we still talk about crowdfunding if there is not hard commitment ? LeYaYa (talk) 22:30, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

In response to LeYaYa (talk) : Yes, we can still talk about crowdfunding since even if this is the case, it doesn't go against the definition of a crowdfunding. A crowdfunding does not require the funding not to be withdrawable after the end of the funding. When you buy something in a crowdfunding, most of the time you can sell it. You can also cancel "your perk". But here, this is not even the case since you cannot cancel your funding before the end. Last but not least, the funding lasts only one month, and StarCitizen for instance lasted several years. TheDao is much more of a real crowdfunding than many projects. shideneyu (talk) : 11:05, 16 May 2016 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.178.186.47 (talk)

It doesn't matter if the crowdfunding lasts 1 month or 10 years - it's still crowdfunding nonetheless. And that DAO is shady as hell no matter how you paint it. KurtMaverick (talk) 18:58, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2016: Add Skully Helmets (raised $2.44m)
Skully Helmets raiseed $2,446,824 on Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skully-ar-1-the-world-s-smartest-motorcycle-helmet#/) and should hence be on this list.

Hirsch30 (talk) 12:27, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Padlock-silver-open.svg Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:11, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2016
Regarding The DAO. 12.07m ethers has been raised. The price of 1 ether at the time of campaign end was between 10.90 USD and 11.10 USD. That makes circa 133m USD raised. See the project's home page at daohub.org This article says that 164m has been raised. Fix it please.

178.41.91.137 (talk) 10:09, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 31 May 2016
Hello, I would like to request the addition of Waves Platform (Ref 1: https://ico.wavesplatform.com/) to rank #6, as it raised 29,636 bitcoins, equavilent to $15,894,812 at current sport prices.

Extra Reference(s): 1) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/waves-raises-2m-24-hours-bid-take-permissioned-blockchains-1554785 2) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blockchain-platform-waves-partners-swiss-knife-bitcoin-wallet-mycelium-1558914

AhmedAshrafYounis (talk) 16:41, 1 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 17:10, 1 June 2016 (UTC)