Acquisition
Nov 2020Crowd Ox joined the BackerKit team (described in BackerKit's 2020 year-in-review post).
SourceThe only end-to-end crowdfunding platform built for today’s creators
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
BackerKit is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform and pledge-management SaaS for professional creators. It helps creators launch campaigns, manage pledges and surveys, market projects, and fulfill rewards.
Primary product
Crowdfunding platform and pledge manager
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
30-40 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Crowdfunding platform / pledge-management SaaS
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Distributed across the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands
Business model
SaaS
platform fees
transaction fees
payment processing fees
performance marketing services
support services
Funding
Stage
Equity crowdfunding (Reg CF) / bootstrapped
Total raised
$3.5M
Latest round
Community investment round (Reg CF on Wefunder) · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$3M
Community investment round (Reg CF / Wefunder)
Sep 2025 · Sahil Lavingia
Jan 2012
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Creator Education Lead
Director of Sales
Head of Customer Success & Support
Creator Community Lead
Head of Trust & Safety
Work & culture
Founder-led, creator-focused, and remote-first. Public culture signals emphasize collective building, kindness/honesty, passion, and embracing failure. Engineering posts highlight pair programming, daily code diffs, and a distributed workflow.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands were found in the reviewed pages. Public compensation signals include equity options, a 401(k), learning stipend, and a crowdfunding pledge stipend.
Benefits
Remote-first for eligible US-based employees
Health coverage
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Flexible vacation
401(k)
Equity options
Learning stipend
Crowdfunding pledge stipend ('We Creators' stipend)
Product & market
Pricing
5% platform fee for BackerKit campaigns, 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing in the U.S., and Pledge Manager fees that are free on BackerKit campaigns but 2% or less plus a 3.5% transaction fee on third-party campaigns; BackerKit Launch can require a $99 activation fee for paid email marketing.
Differentiators
- —End-to-end crowdfunding platform plus pledge manager
- —Integrated campaign launch, marketing, support, and fulfillment tools
- —Collab-Funding and group collaboration features
- —Instant Access digital rewards and creator integrations
- —In-house backer support and creator support
- —Strong repeat-creator focus and creator-specific workflows
- —Large managed footprint ($3.7B+ funds managed, 15M+ backers served)
Technology
Ruby on Rails
Postgres
GitHub
Tuple
Mailgun
CircleCI
Heroku
Stripe
ActionMailer
Docker
Customers
Steve Jackson Games
Dragonsteel
Iron Circus
MCDM
BOOM! Studios
Two Little Mice
Cephalofair Games
Mini Museum
The Story Engine
Key & Crow Studios
Peak Design
Dandy Puppeteer
Competitors
Kickstarter
Indiegogo
Gamefound
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
About $20M-$30M; BackerKit disclosed $23.7M revenue for 2024 in its Wefunder/BackerKit materials.
Estimated monthly visits
3.3M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Dec 2021BackerKit announced it had acquired Launch Studio, a Kickstarter masterclass and creator-education brand.
SourceLatest news
BackerKit · Apr 2026
BackerKit announced a BookFunnel integration that lets book campaigns deliver ebooks and audiobooks instantly to backers.
BackerKit · Mar 2026
BackerKit launched Instant Access Rewards to deliver digital content, links, and codes immediately after a pledge, follow, or reservation.
BackerKit · Jan 2026
Year-in-review post highlighting platform growth, Collab-Funding expansion, and the Wefunder community raise.
BackerKit · Dec 2025
BackerKit introduced a Patreon-to-crowdfunding integration that turns patrons into backers and adds targeted pledge-level workflows.
PRWeb · Jun 2025
BackerKit launched its first community investment round on Wefunder to fund growth, with early investor interest and named support from Sahil Lavingia and Garry Tan.
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