Kickstarter the Light Clock

Kickstarter the Light Clock

Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality. To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of the Kickstarter community.

Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009. A lot has happened since.

We had the craziest 24 hours ever. We saw $1 billion get pledged. We shared the early designs behind Kickstarter. We learned what a Kickstarter project looked like back in 1713. We talked about why Kickstarter matters. We made site.about.some to how we govern the site. We put on a film festival (and another) (and another) (and another) (and another). A project won an Oscar. And after five years, we made a video about it all.

Our community.

Kickstarter is an enormous global community built around creativity and creative projects. Over 9 million people, fro m every continent on earth, have backed a Kickstarter project.

Some of those projects come fro m influential artists like De La Soul or Marina Abramović. Most come fro m amazing creative people you probably haven’t heard of — fro m Grandma Pearl to indie filmmakers to the band down the street.

Every artist, filmmaker, designer, developer, and creator on Kickstarter has complete creative control over their work — and the opportunity to share it with a vibrant community of backers.

“Kickstarter is one of those platforms that gives you space to work with people who know you, love you, and support you.”

— De La Soul

Our mission.

We built Kickstarter to help bring creative projects to life. We measure our success as a company by how well we achieve that mission, not by the size of our profits. That’s why, in 2015, we became a Benefit Corporation. Benefit Corporations are for-profit companies that are obligated to consider the impact of their decisions on society, not only shareholders. Radically, positive impact on society becomes part of a Benefit Corporation’s legally defined goals.

When we became a Benefit Corporation, we amended our corporate charter to lay out specific goals and commitments to arts and culture, making our values core to our operations, fighting inequality, and helping creative projects come to life. You can read our commitments in full below.

We're an independent, founder-controlled company of 118 people working together in an old pencil factory in New York City. We spend our time designing and building Kickstarter, connecting people around inspiring creative projects, and having a lot of fun doing it.

We’re developers, designers, support specialists, writers, musicians, painters, poets, gamers, robot-builders — you name it. Between us, we’ve backed more than 34,000 projects (and launched plenty of our own).

The Light Clock - 利用光和色彩，优美地显示时间。