You have to put this $6M into perspective. I think most of the money came from the angel investors, so Soma won't have such a big community than this amount would hint at.
I wonder what this Angel Investors must think currently as the project hasn't raised as much as they probably thought. But anyways, to be honest, I think $6M is more then enough to start with. If the platform is working out and people want to use it, they will also generate enough revenue to expand. A lot of projects before had much less money to start with and still worked out. I really can't understand why recently a lot of projects just want to raise unrealistic hard caps. Even in the non crypto world projects start with less money, and they get it.
I don't think the Angel investors invested for ico success, actually ico funding only good for Soma itself. They invested in soma and probably give enough money to start.
If soma platform will be success Angel investors will sell their tokens with good profits if not we all know what happens...
Yes, I think they invested their money independently from the ICO. And I am sure they saw/see real potential in the project. Otherwise they wouldn't have invested such a big amount of money in it. That's why I was wondering why didn't more private investors saw the same opportunity in Soma as the Angel investors?
If they have invested their money independently from the ICO to give SOMA enough money to start their project, they would not have needed a soft cap in my eyes, as they already had the minimum funding.