Pebble Time is Already The Most Successful Project Ever Launched on Kickstarter

Pebble is taking the right steps to move from a small start-up to a large company. Few can say that a project funded through a crowdfunding campaign has run into something much bigger than just a product, a promising company and that it presupposes a great future ahead. We are talking about Pebble, a small start-up that began with the intent to place a nice smartwatch in the world and that currently can already say that they have in their hands the most successful Kickstarter product to date.

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As we saw at the beginning of last week, the Pebble Time became the second generation of intelligent clock Pebble, incorporating a number of new highly requested features: better design, color screen and a battery. For its launch, the company decided to return to the platform they were born: Kickstarter.

In less than an hour, the Pebble Time had already managed to raise two million dollars and the rate at which increased the counter page presaged the new smartwatch could break some records. Indeed, just one week after its official launch, the Pebble Time has become the most successful product ever launched on Kickstarter.

So far, the Coolest Cooler, a multifunctional fridge, occupied the top spot with $ 13.2 million. He was the original Pebble with $ 10.2 million, but now his successor has achieved in just one week and 24 days of campaigning ahead, reaching a staggering $ 13.4 million.

The Pebble Time gets snatch the top spot multifunctional fridge Coolest Cooler. If you want to know the Top 10 of the biggest products Kickstarter to date, here are the left:

• Pebble Time: $ 13.4 million
• Coolest Cooler: 13, 2 million
• Original Pebble: $ 10.2 million
• Exploding card game Kittens: $ 8.7 million
• Ouya: $ 8.5 million
• Pono music player 6.2 billion
• Film project Veronica Mars: $ 5.7 million
• Reading Rainbow: $ 5.4 million
• Torment: Tides of Numenera (video game): $ 4.1 million
• Project Eternity (video game): $ 3.9 million

Without going any further, today the company has submitted the Pebble Time Steel, elegant version made of stainless steel new watch presented last week. With 24 days of campaigning ahead, it is expected that the smartwatch gets a big difference with respect to other projects mentioned so far.

Via irishexaminer