Most-backed projects on Kickstarter 2025

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 30, 2025

At the end of 2014, Bring Back Reading Rainbow, a project with the aim of providing free access to a library of interactive books and video field trips for children, was the most-backed Kickstarter project, with 105,857 backers in total. In February 2015, the card game project, Exploding Kittens took first place with 219,382 backers and remained the most-backed project until January 2025.

Most popular Kickstarter projects as of January 2025, by number of backers (in 1,000s)

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