It took just under 12 hours for the crowd-sourced funding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge to reach $2 million, mostly on donations jumping on the $600 tier to get a device. Once that tier sold out, funding slowed down a bit, but Canonical has added multiple new tiers to spur more donations, and those tiers are selling out fast...
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Ubuntu-Edge-funding-passes-4.5M-adds-lower-tiers-that-are-going-fast_id45673
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Ubuntu-Edge-funding-passes-4.5M-adds-lower-tiers-that-are-going-fast_id45673