Pebble Watch — One of the first smart watches on the market

Pebble is the first Kickstarter project that comes to mind. Pebble went on to raise $20 million dollars with their Pebble Time. Pebble continued using Kickstarter to fund all their new lines of smartwatches. The campaign in part did so well because at the time (pun intended) the Pebble Smartwatch was one of the only smartwatches on the market. In 2016 Pebble announced there would be no new smartwatches and they were being acquired by FitBit. FitBit continues to update the Pebble firmware. Sad demise to one of the first smartwatch makers.