Since our founding, we’ve stayed dedicated to our imaginative and prescient to make the crowdfunding journey simpler and higher for all. 

We launched the primary self-serve pledge administration software program in crowdfunding 10 years in the past. Since then, we’ve labored with creators and backers to proceed growing instruments and providers – like BackerKit Launch, BackerKit Advertising, and most not too long ago, our new crowdfunding platform, BackerKit Crowdfunding – to appreciate that imaginative and prescient.

Because of this we’re thrilled to share that in lower than two years since its launch, BackerKit Crowdfunding – which unifies all of our choices in a single platform – is our fastest-growing product up to now. 

As we put together for 2024, we needed to mirror on a number of milestones that mark our journey to date and exhibit the robust assist of our rising creator and backer group that’s on the coronary heart of all of it.

2023 BackerKit Crowdfunding Milestones 🌟 

This 12 months, BackerKit Crowdfunding skilled a: 

• • 4x development in initiatives launched 12 months over 12 months.
  • 3x development in complete funds raised 12 months over 12 months. 
  • 90% crowdfund success fee. 9 out of 10 initiatives launched on BackerKit Crowdfunding reached their funding objective.

With an inflow of latest creators and backers to BackerKit in 2023, we noticed a tripling of development in complete funds raised and a quadrupling of initiatives launched on our platform. And whereas the quantity of initiatives launched on BackerKit rose considerably, our creators nonetheless achieved an industry-high 90% success fee.

We couldn’t be extra thrilled with the outcomes and general response to our new crowdfunding platform – and we now have you, our group, to thank. 

We constructed BackerKit Crowdfunding from the bottom up, collaborating with creators and backers when our product was in beta to ensure we supplied a platform that not solely made crowdfunding extra enjoyable for everybody but in addition gave creators a greater probability at getting funded – empowering them to launch greater than a undertaking, and launch a artistic life. 

We’re nonetheless on the trail to reaching these formidable objectives, however these milestones function robust indicators that we’re headed in the correct course. Thanks for becoming a member of us within the journey and we stay up for what we’ll obtain collectively subsequent. 

Associated: Planning to crowdfund in 2024? Save simply 1 undertaking earlier than Dec. thirty first and get $0 charges in your first $5,000 raised. See full promo particulars right here.

Creators are breaking {industry} information on BackerKit 💪

The enlargement of our gifted creator group is a key development driver for BackerKit Crowdfunding. Listed here are only a few of the standout creators who launched their marketing campaign on BackerKit in 2023 and reached their very own private bests whereas breaking some crowdfunding information within the course of:

The Amory Wars returns with No World For Tomorrow by BOOM! Studios – Comics

BOOM! Studios launched what they described because the “hotly anticipated subsequent chapter and penultimate chapter of THE AMORY WARS comedian guide saga.” It was so hotly anticipated that it raised $952,216 by means of the assist of 6,711 backers and broke some first-day information within the course of. This undertaking is now the:

• • #6 Most funded comedian of all time 
  • #3 Most funded campaigns for BOOM! Studios 
  • #2 Most funded comedian marketing campaign on BackerKit Crowdfunding
  • #7 Most funded marketing campaign on BackerKit Crowdfunding
  • #1 Largest Day-1 complete ever for BOOM! Studios, elevating over $593,766 within the first 24 hours
  • #6 Day-1 complete on BackerKit Crowdfunding 
  • The quickest funded undertaking for BOOM! Studios. Funded in simply 2 minutes!

BOOM! Studios has been a BackerKit buyer since 2020. Amory Wars is their 1st undertaking on BackerKit Crowdfunding.

Associated: The Amory Wars Pre-Order retailer is up! Test it out now >>

Lackadaisy by Iron Circus – Animation

Iron Circus has been crowdfunding for almost 15 years and is a five-time BackerKit Crowdfunding creator. Their 2023 Lackadaisy crowdfund marketing campaign to launch the primary season of the beloved Lackadaisy webcomic and animation has been their most profitable up to now, elevating $2,008,728 by means of the facility of 16,053 backers. Lackadaisy is now the:

• • #2 Most funded animation of all time
  • #1 Most funded marketing campaign for Iron Circus
  • #1 Most funded comedian marketing campaign on BackerKit Crowdfunding 
  • #5 Most funded marketing campaign on BackerKit Crowdfunding
  • #5 Largest Day-1 complete on BackerKit Crowdfunding, elevating $600,794 within the first 24 hours

Iron Circus has been a BackerKit buyer since 2016. Lackadaisy is their fifth undertaking on BackerKit Crowdfunding.

The MCDM RPG by MCDM Productions – Position-Taking part in Recreation

The MCDM RPG, MCDM’s heroic fantasy RPG and their first unique sport, broke a number of BackerKit information out the gate. As of at the moment, MCDM RPG has raised over $3 million by means of the assist of over 19k backers and is already:

• • #1 Largest Day-1 complete for MCDM Productions ever, elevating $2,196,363 within the first 24 hours
  • #1 Largest Day-1 complete on BackerKit Crowdfunding
  • #2 Most funded marketing campaign on BackerKit Crowdfunding
  • #1 Longest Backer Prepare on BackerKit Crowdfunding in each backer depend and size of time. 13,691 backers stored a steady practice of pledges going for 44.5 hours – almost two days straight!
  • #1 Largest Launch Get together on Backerkit Crowdfunding; over 12k folks tuned in to their stay launch stream occasion.

MCDM RPG has been a BackerKit buyer since 2019. MCDM RPG is their 2nd undertaking on BackerKit Crowdfunding. 

Associated: The MCDM RPG undertaking is stay! Test it out now >>

Development in initiatives of each measurement and in new followers for repeat creators 📈

We consider each type of creator of any measurement can succeed on BackerKit. As we’re thrilled to see a few of the most established creators be part of our crowdfunding platform with chart-topping success, we’re simply as proud to observe the expansion of our creators throughout each class launching their very first crowdfund, reaching and leveling up their artistic objectives, and constructing new and lasting communities on BackerKit. 

Listed here are a number of notable milestones that spotlight the expansion and momentum we noticed throughout our creator and backer communities this 12 months. 

• • 19x development in $1k-10k funded initiatives YoY
  • 8x development in funded enamel pins initiatives YoY
  • 4x development within the variety of backers who backed a creator for the primary time YoY

Milestones past the numbers 🥳

Crowdfunding thrives on the well being and energy of its communities, which is why at BackerKit we’ve prioritized a community-first method in all that we do.

This 12 months, we launched some industry-first instruments and initiatives, all geared toward increasing and enhancing the methods creators have interaction with their backers and fostering a crowdfunding ecosystem the place creators and backers are arrange for achievement. These instruments and initiatives embody: 

It’s been a banner 12 months for us at BackerKit – a 12 months that will not have been potential with out the continued assist from you, our creators and backers. Thanks for becoming a member of us and serving to us form the way forward for crowdfunding collectively. 

Listed here are only a few occasions and initiatives we’re already trying ahead to subsequent 12 months:

• • We’ll be at CES in January. Go to us on the Venetian Expo (Eureka Park), Corridor G — Sales space #60315. 
  • Be part of the 3-Day digital Indie RPG Creator Summit, sponsored by Goodman Video games and BackerKit. Save your seat by Dec. 31 without cost entry to  Day 1 & 2, plus early-bird pricing.  
  • Brandon Sanderson – prolific novelist and the creator of essentially the most profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign – is launching his subsequent undertaking, Phrases of Radiance Leatherbound, on BackerKit in March. Comply with the undertaking right here >> 

That’s a wrap for 2023, and we will’t wait to see what you’ll create in 2024. On behalf of the BackerKit workforce, we want you all blissful holidays and an impressed new 12 months. 

What’s subsequent? 🚀

2023 turned out to be our greatest crowdfunding 12 months up to now. Now, it’s your flip. 

Make 2024 your finest crowdfunding 12 months but! Save a BackerKit Crowdfunding undertaking earlier than Dec. thirty first and get $0 charges in your first $5,000 raised. See full promo particulars right here.