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See also: Axanar Kickstarter Details and Axanar Indiegogo Details

This is an analysis of the publicly available information about Axanar’s Indiegogo campaign, a 30-day effort in March 2014, to fund production of the short film, Prelude to Axanar.

The campaign to produce Prelude to Axanar concluded March 31, 2014, with $101,171 from 2,123 backers; the fundraising goal was only $10,000. However, 56 backers appeared to give without selecting rewards. Therefore, this analysis is based only on the amount raised from backers who did choose rewards ($94,210).¹⁾

The following figures demonstrate:

• Donors of small amounts (under $100) were 85 percent of the backers (Figure 1).
• However, those small contributions totaled just more than half the amount raised (Figure 2).
• Just 15 percent of campaign backers contributed almost half (46 percent) the proceeds.

The following chart displays the number of donors distributed across all the funding levels offered by the campaign.

By comparison, the 2015 Indiegogo campaign offered much higher-end donation levels, which resulted in a small number of donors that contributed significant amounts. This campaign, on the other hand, had a more level distribution of backers across the donation levels offered.

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