This presentation did not include the P&L slide he showed recently in London[1] (excellent presentation at Monkigras). They took huge cashflow risks and were very lucky to survive.
Yes, we were definitely lucky, although the cash flow risk wasn't on purpose! Some things happened in that graph that were out of our control. The lesson from that graph is don't count your money until is in the bank and don't sell a product until it's on the shelves.
With only $6M raised, this whole venture is probably a 100 to 1 moonshot to be honest with you.(although as an entrepreneur clearly I have to believe the odds are better than that...). Calxeda raised $100M and went bust, Tilera raised $150M and was sold for $50M, Tabular raised $200M and went bust, the Cell processor supposedly cost $1B to develop, etc.
If you are interested, here is a long list of parallel processor efforts. All of them failed to reached general purpose status:
From your history slides, I thought of Mill OoBC http://millcomputing.com/docs/; they share the DSP roots, do you know them or their work ? they don't design many-core cpus though.
ps: Also, I don't think there was mention of your previous work on the Kickstarter page or boards, was it on purpose (NDA,...) ? Past projects like these really give trust to future clients.
[1] https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/561128891348422657