{"id":6145,"date":"2022-06-29T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/seed-funding-melbourne-startup-raises-9m-for-mental-wellness-game-based-on-tending-houseplants\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:40:09","slug":"seed-funding-melbourne-startup-raises-9m-for-mental-wellness-game-based-on-tending-houseplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/seed-funding-melbourne-startup-raises-9m-for-mental-wellness-game-based-on-tending-houseplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed funding: Melbourne startup raises $9m for mental wellness game based on tending houseplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for Kinder World mobile app said to be largest venture capital seed investment for game studio founded by women in Australia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Melbourne startup has raised $9m in funding for a mobile game aimed at mental wellness in what is said to be the largest venture capital seed investment for a game studio founded by women in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Lumi Interactive has been developing Kinder World since 2020. Its players take care of houseplants \u2013 which can\u2019t be killed, and won\u2019t die if they leave the game for too long. There are emotional check-ins where they can write down how they are feeling, or express daily gratitude, and message-in-a-bottle type kindness notes can be left for other players.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jun\/27\/seed-funding-melbourne-startup-raises-9m-for-mental-wellness-game-based-on-tending-houseplants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4e64b7375085d741e68fbc4c847046977b723ae\/0_0_1612_967\/master\/1612.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7c4169d724f24e511ad65f03743cb369\" title=\"Seed funding: Melbourne startup raises $9m for mental wellness game based on tending houseplants\" \/>Funding for Kinder World mobile app said to be largest venture capital seed investment for game studio founded by women in Australia<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/p>\n<p>Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>A Melbourne startup has raised $9m in funding for a mobile game aimed at mental wellness in what is said to be the largest venture capital seed investment for a game studio founded by women in Australia.<br \/>\nLumi Interactive has been developing Kinder World since 2020. Its players take care of houseplants \u2013 which can\u2019t be killed, and won\u2019t die if they leave the game for too long. There are emotional check-ins where they can write down how they are feeling, or express daily gratitude, and message-in-a-bottle type kindness notes can be left for other players. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for Kinder World mobile app said to be largest venture capital seed investment for game studio founded by women in Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing A Melbourne startup has raised $9m in funding for a mobile game aimed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/seed-funding-melbourne-startup-raises-9m-for-mental-wellness-game-based-on-tending-houseplants\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seed funding: Melbourne startup raises $9m for mental wellness game based on tending houseplants<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}