Kickstarter | 101,631 followers on LinkedIn. Bringing creative projects to life. | Kickstarter is on a mission to bring creative projects to life. As the leading crowdfunding and launch platform, Kickstarter is home to the world’s largest backer community — 23 million strong and counting. Since 2009, the platform has fueled innovation across 15 categories, helping launch over 275,000 projects and attracting more than $8 billion in pledges from backers.