The platform Kickstarter released its first quarterly report in Wednesday, which pledged $112 million trillion in the first quarter of this year and attracted 680,000 new donors.
The report also shows that nearly 4,500 projects have been successfully financed and that the pledges have contributed more than $1.25 million a day, a decrease from the amount pledged at $1.32 million a year earlier. At this rate, Kickstarter's pledge this year is hard to exceed the 480 million dollar pledge record last year.
However, raising funds is only part of the Kickstarter development process, the most important thing is that the platform to raise funds through the project has reaped gratifying results.
At the beginning of this year, a number of projects in Kickstarter to raise the good news. First, in March, Oculus VR, a developer of virtual reality hardware products financed by Kickstarter, was bought by social networking giant Facebook at $2 billion trillion, one of the big acquisitions in Facebook's history.
The same month, the documentary "The Square" won the Oscar "best Documentary" award nomination, which is the Kickstarter support for the seventh time won the Oscar favor. In addition, four Kickstarter-supported projects were nominated for the Grammy Awards in January this year.
March 14, "Meimei School" (Veronica Mars) landed in North American Courtyard line, the project was raised through Kickstarter last April, the amount of more than 5.7 million U.S. dollars.
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