The crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that two billion dollars had passed through it. In the first five years, the company achieved a result of one billion, and it took only nineteen months for the second billion dollars. The interest of people in crowdfunding over the past two years has become a turning point for Kickstarter, its main competitor Indiegogo and other platforms, which are now an effective tool for raising funds for various developers and inventors.

On the page dedicated to the
important event for Kickstarter , the company posted interesting facts about its work. The total number of users who invested the projects was nine and a half million people. Three million of them have invested in three to five projects. 1.7 million people transferred Kickstarter one hundred fifty million dollars, knowing that they will not get anything in return. Since receiving the first billion in 2014, people sent Kickstarter projects two thousand two hundred dollars per minute.
Every hour nine new projects opened on the site. The total number of projects is more than two hundred and sixty thousand.
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Forty backers financed over a thousand projects each. Most often, people left up to $ 100. Among the backers are people from two hundred and thirty countries on all seven continents.

Most of the projects are devoted to films and videos, in second place is music. Then come the books, games, art, technology, design and food. In each category, projects received a minimum of five million dollars in funding. Backers gave $ 412.2 million to games, 360 million to technology, 351 million to design and 302.1 million to movies and video.
Two billion dollars went to finance 93,555 projects.

Among the most popular projects on Kickstarter is the Pebble Time watch,
which received more than twenty million dollars from seventy-eight thousand backers this year. Three years ago, in October 2012, the record was a
printer from MIT students with three million dollars. List of projects-champions posted on
this page .