In the crypto world, people judge a project based on the amount they raised. However, the amount raised does not reflect quality of a project but mostly the marketing campaign...In few months you will see, valuation of big ICO going down and "small ICO" (like gimli) will skyrocket. Best advice I can give: Read the project and not only the amount written in the "token sale" page of their website.
Yeah, the community's expectations about that are starting to get silly. More ICO investors gives you a smaller percentage of the supply and reduces the number of people who may invest later once the ICO is over