About us

Our mission is to help bring creative projects to life.

Kickstarter campaigns make ideas into reality. It’s where creators share new visions for creative work with the communities that will come together to fund them.

Some of these creators, like Critical Role, TLC, and The Smiths onian Institution already had huge fanbases. But many projects have been as small-scale as a limited run of silent meditation vinyls or as up-and-coming as early versions of Issa Rae's Insecure and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.

No matter what, creators always control how the work comes together—no 100-page grant applications, no donors demanding you modify your message, no last-minute edits from investors. When backers chip in funding and help spread the word, they too become part of these independent works.

“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.

Our mission is to help bring creative projects to life. We believe that art and creative expression are essential to a healthy and vibrant society, and the space to create requires protection.

We don’t want art world elites and entertainment executives to define our culture; we want creative people—even those who’ve never made anything before—to take the wheel. We help creators connect directly with their communities, putting power where it belongs.

We are so committed to our mission, we wrote it into our business model. In 2015 we became a Public Benefit Corporation—a for-profit company that prioritizes positive outcomes for society as much as our shareholders. We updated our corporate charter to lay out specific goals and commitments to put our values into our operations, promote arts and culture, fight inequality, and help creative projects happen.
Since our launch, on April 28, 2009, 24 million people have backed a project, $8,485,018,904 has been pledged, and 271,506 projects have been successfully funded.

Our team.
We're an independent company of passionate people working together. We spend our time designing and building Kickstarter, forging community around creative projects, and supporting the creative ecosystem around us. We’re developers, designers, support specialists, writers, musicians, painters, poets, gamers, robot-builders—you name it. Over the years, our team has backed more than 50,000 projects (and launched plenty of our own).

Our history.

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

We became a Public Benefit Corporation to commit to our principles as much as our profits. We launched The Creative Independent to share resources and advice for all types of makers. We invited the local community into our Brooklyn headquarters with the Creators-in-Residence program.

Projects won Grammys and Oscars. London’s V&A Museum curated a show about Kickstarter design projects. Hank Willis Thomas and For Freedoms’ political billboard project across all 50 states became the largest creative collaboration in U.S. history. We went Climate Neutral—we’re doing everything we can to build a long, healthy future for the creative culture we helped cultivate. This is just the beginning.