Given that the KickStarter is a method of finding crowd based funding for arts and other small projects/inventions. Could there be room for a startup that does

Given that the KickStarter is a method of finding crowd based funding for arts and other small projects/inventions. Could there be room for a startup that does more "classical" artist/inventor funding by patronage? Using the Internet to connect funky arts/inention people with patrons that want to support them.