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Kickstarter: History, Companies & Art

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of April 2025, Kickstarter has received US$8.71 billion in pledges from 24.1 million backers to fund 277,302…

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Kickstarter topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Kickstarter.

Related topics
101
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
107
Extracted relationships
209
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
107

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 35 topics
Notable projects and creators · 22 topics
Controversies · 16 topics
Projects · 12 topics
Model · 11 topics
Overview · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Industry
Financial services Internet
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
CEO
Everette Taylor
Founder(s)
Perry Chen Yancey Strickler Charles Adler
Launched
April 28, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-04-28)
Net income
$1.3 million after tax (2019): 1

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Model

Projects

Notable projects and creators

Controversies

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Kickstarter connects Entity context

The extracted context around Kickstarter shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Kickstarter → Above, Although Kickstarter, Amanda Palmer, As, Braff, December, Game, Hal Hartley, Hartley, He, In, In April, In June, In May, Indiegogo, Kermit Gosnell, Kickstarter's, Many, Matias Shimada, Ned Rifle Another extracted example is Kickstarter → Academy Award, Amanda Palmer's, Billboard, Evil, EyeWriter, GoldieBlox, Hip-Hop Word Count, Incident, International Venice Architecture Biennale, LunaTik, Matt Porterfield, Modern Art, Museum, National Design Award, National Design Museum, New Baghdad, No, Others, Ouya, Putty Hill. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Kickstarter

Top relations

related to Projects · 36
Kickstarter → Above, Although Kickstarter, Amanda Palmer, As, Braff, December, Game, Hal Hartley, Hartley, He, In, In April, In June, In May, Indiegogo, Kermit Gosnell, Kickstarter's, Many, Matias Shimada, Ned Rifle
related to Notable projects and creators · 33
Kickstarter → Academy Award, Amanda Palmer's, Billboard, Evil, EyeWriter, GoldieBlox, Hip-Hop Word Count, Incident, International Venice Architecture Biennale, LunaTik, Matt Porterfield, Modern Art, Museum, National Design Award, National Design Museum, New Baghdad, No, Others, Ouya, Putty Hill
related to Patent disputes · 29
Kickstarter → According, Alphacap Ventures, Alphacap Ventures LLC, ArtistShare, ArtistShare's, Bloomberg, CircleUp, Elsewhere, Fan Funded, Form, Formlabs, GoFundMe, Gust, In February, In June, Indiegogo, Innovational Funding, Kickstarter's, Methods, On January
related to Model · 28
Kickstarter → Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, If, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Project
related to history · 22
Kickstarter → April, Best Inventions, Best Websites, Brooklyn, Caterina Fake, Charles Adler, COVID-19, Greenpoint, Jack Dorsey, Kent Street, Manhattan, NEA, NYC-based, On February, Perry Chen, Rivington Street, The, The New York Times, Time, Union Square Ventures
related to Categories · 18
Kickstarter → Art, Comics, Creators, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Of, Photography, Publishing, Technology, Theater, These, They, Video
related to Unionizing efforts · 10
Kickstarter → According, Aziz Hasan, CEO, In May, Kickstarter's, Office, On March, OPEIU, Professional Employees International Union, Shortly
related to Blockchain · 4
Kickstarter → Celo, On December, The, Twitter
related to Guidelines · 4
Kickstarter → Banning, Requiring, These, To
related to Project cancellations · 4
Kickstarter → Both Kickstarter, Questions, Some, The

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

projects project raised million creators crowdfunding new 2012 categories company film would patent funding site union 2013 employees campaign platform

Kickstarter relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 209 structured relationships around Kickstarter. Examples in this analysis include Kickstarter → CEO → Everette Taylor and Kickstarter → Founder(s) → Perry Chen Yancey Strickler Charles Adler. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
KickstarterCEOEverette Taylor1.00infobox
KickstarterFounder(s)Perry Chen Yancey Strickler Charles Adler1.00infobox
KickstarterHeadquartersBrooklyn, New York City, U.S.1.00infobox
KickstarterIndustryFinancial services Internet1.00infobox
KickstarterLaunchedApril 28, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-04-28)1.00infobox
KickstarterNet income$1.3 million after tax (2019): 11.00infobox
KickstarterType of businessDelaware-registered public-benefit corporation1.00infobox
KickstarterType of siteCrowdfunding1.00infobox
KickstarterURLwww.kickstarter.com/about1.00infobox
Kickstarteris aplace in which creators and audiences make things together0.90text
Jack Dorseyinstance of10 million funding from backers including NYC-based venture firm Union Square Ventures and angel investors0.80text
Zach Kleininstance of10 million funding from backers including NYC-based venture firm Union Square Ventures and angel investors0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Kickstarter bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Projects, Project and Million. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Kickstarter
    • Projects
    • Project
    • Million
    • Raised
    • Creators
    • Crowdfunding
    • New
    • Patent
    • Would
    • Platform
    • Campaign
    • Employees
  • kickstarter
    • Projects
    • Project
    • Million
    • Raised
    • Creators
    • Crowdfunding
    • New
    • Patent
    • Would
    • Platform
    • Campaign
    • Employees
  • the new york times
    • New
    • York
    • Brooklyn
    • Crowdfunding
    • Platform
    • Creators
    • Projects
    • Site
    • Would
    • Film
    • Public
    • Video
  • new york university
    • New
    • York
    • Brooklyn
    • Crowdfunding
    • Platform
    • Creators
    • Projects
    • Site
    • Would
    • Film
    • Public
    • Video
  • projects
    • Project
    • Successful
    • Creators
    • Categories
    • Raised
    • Funded
    • Goal
    • One
    • Site
    • Film
    • York
    • Time
  • notable projects and creators
    • Project
    • Platform
    • Employees
    • Successful
    • New
    • Creators
    • Projects
    • Kickstarter
    • Categories
    • One
    • Campaign
    • Funding
  • crowdfunding
    • York
    • Platform
    • New
    • Public
    • Announced
    • Site
    • Funding
    • Patent
    • Kickstarter
    • Us
    • Video
    • Projects
  • a new adventure game
    • York
    • Platform
    • Creators
    • Projects
    • Site
    • Would
    • Film
    • Million
    • Project
    • Raised
    • Launched
    • Backers

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Kickstarter, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Kickstarter with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Kickstarter — History · splits 72 ⟂ 36
Kickstarter — Notable projects and creators · splits 85 ⟂ 23
Kickstarter — Controversies · splits 91 ⟂ 17
Kickstarter — Projects · splits 95 ⟂ 13
Kickstarter — Model · splits 96 ⟂ 12
Kickstarter — Overview · splits 102 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Kickstarter

Nodes108
Edges107
Triples209
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018519
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Kickstarter to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Kickstarter · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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