Kickstarter Seeded Nearly $100 Million to Crazy Ideas Last Year

Looks like Kickstarter had a killer 2011: the independent project funding site had $99,433,382.00 pledged with 46% of projects successfully getting funding.

There were 11,836 successful projects. The founder claimed that 84% of all pldges ended up collected. For comparison, there were only 3,910 successful projects in 2010 with $28 million in funding.

Kickstarter has provided funding for many interesting projects that otherwise would never have made it past the drawing board. The range from the mundane, like an open source flashlight design to the clever, like this camera clip system, to the fun, like this iPod Nano watch band, to the absurd, like these power laces, like from Back to the Future 2.

Here’s to wishing them a successful 1012, and to many successful ideas.