It took Kickstarter nearly five years to top $1 billion in total pledges. Last year alone, it did more than half that amount.
Kickstarter announced Monday that 3.3 million backers pledged more than $500 million (about $529 million, according to a rep) to projects on the site throughout 2014. All in all, 22,252 projects were funded successfully on the crowdfunding platform.
