For Kickstarter and crowdfunding, it can be argued that 2012 was their breakout year, following the successful $10 million funding of the Pebble smartwatch. The fundraising proved that crowdfunding can be used to fund multimillion dollar technological, innovative projects. Since then, Kickstarter has grown; The firm just announced that in 2014 the crowdfunding platform was used to raise $529 million in pledges from 3.3 million users.
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