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11.03.2024 | Neuroplasticity Market by Bright Future Trends, Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities 2024-2031: NeuroSky Inc., BrainHQ | Neuroplasticity Market Report BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Coherent Market Insights has released a statistical report titled "Neuroplasticity Market Recent Trends, In-depth Analysis, Size,... |
10.03.2023 | 15 Best Apps and Websites for Focus and Productivity | Focusing while working is a problem many people face today. Between email, Slack, and social media notifications, distractions are so prevalent that it can be hard to focus on a task. According to Crucial Learning’s study of 1,600 responden... |
05.05.2022 | Полезные личностные качества для ИТ-специалиста + материалы для их развития | Вы когда-нибудь задумывались, почему один человек легко идёт по жизни, достигает высоких результатов и получает всё, чего ему хотелось бы, а другие словно каждый день сражаются — и регулярно проигрывают? Безусловно, это можно объяснить множ... |
11.12.2021 | 5 online brain games to help WFH employees improve mental function | Elevate
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27.09.2021 | 5 игр, которые помогут повысить навыки в дата-сайенс | Command and Conquer
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04.09.2019 | ‘Mental fitness’ startup Elevate Labs launches a personalized meditation app called Balance | While investors are already writing big checks for meditation startups, Elevate Labs founder and CEO Jesse Pickard said that none of the existing meditation apps can replace the experience of working with a human coach.
“This experience whe... |
24.04.2018 | Lumos Labs makes Train of Thought brain game free for a week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumos Labs, maker of the popular Lumosity brain games, announced that it is granting players unlimited, free access to its most popular... |
24.04.2018 | Lumos Labs makes Train of Thought brain game free for a week | Lumos Labs, maker of the popular Lumosity brain games, announced that it is granting players unlimited, free access to its most popular new game, Train of Thought for a week.
The game has been played 500 million times by 20 million people. ... |
03.10.2017 | Lumos Labs expands from brain-training games to educational math titles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumos Labs has had more than 85 million downloads for its brain-training games since 2007. Now the company is launching four new math t... |
16.11.2016 | Lumosity shares cognitive insights to show how well your brain works | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Brain game maker Lumosity is launching a new analytics service dubbed Insights, which goes beyond brain training and analyzes your game... |
16.11.2016 | ‘Brain Game’-Maker Lumosity Forges Ahead After Reaching a $2 Million Settlement for Deceiving Consumers | For Lumos Labs, which makes the brain training app Lumosity, the year started on a sour note. Midway through the first week in January, the Federal Trade Commission announced it was suing the company for $2 million. Through its pervasive di... |
03.10.2016 | The 3 Key Challenges Health Tech Startups Face Today | While healthcare and health tech startup funding has broken the record high of $3.9 billion this year, and consumer demand is growing exponentially in numerous areas, a lot of entrepreneurs still feel reluctant about stepping into these mar... |
06.09.2016 | Brain drain? Lumosity reels after federal crackdown on online ‘brain training’ | The brain-training giant Lumosity is recalibrating its strategy and facing new challenges as it reels from a federal crackdown on bold health claims about its digital games.
The company behind the Lumosity brand, Lumos Labs, has dramaticall... |
26.05.2016 | 8 Strategies for Training Your Brain to Learn Faster | Have you ever encountered such a situation where you do remember a person by face but failed to recall his or her name? Oftentimes, we find ourselves totally helpless simply because our mind is in sleep mode for a while when we need to beha... |
05.04.2016 | Lumosity debuts word games that will help you learn vocabulary | Lumosity made its name with brain games that help improve your mind. It got more than 70 million members and subscribers that way. Now it is expanding with a series of five web games that help you improve your language skills such as vocabu... |
05.04.2016 | Lumosity debuts word games that will help you learn vocabulary | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumosity made its name with brain games that help improve your mind. It got more than 70 million members and subscribers that way. Now ... |
06.01.2016 | Lumosity “Brain Training” App Maker To Pay $2 Million Settlement To FTC | Lumos Labs, the creator of “brain training program” Lumosity with $67.5 million in venture funding, has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the Federal Trade Commission for its deceptive advertising. As part of the settlement, the comp... |
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11.11.2015 | Brain game maker Lumos Labs gets a different brain in new CEO Steve Berkowitz | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Brain game maker Lumos Labs is getting a different brain today with the appointment of new CEO Steve Berkowitz, who has been known for ... |
22.10.2015 | 28 Websites That Can Teach You a Lot For Free | Having the internet has opened us up to lots of new things. Now you don’t have to go to school or open a book to learn a lot about a lot of things. All you need is an internet-enabled device and internet connection and you’re good to go.
Th... |
03.08.2015 | Disruption In Healthcare Could Be Costly | Megan Jones Contributor
Megan Jones, Psy.D, is a Stanford psychologist and chief science officer of Lantern. She is an expert in prevention and early intervention for mental health problems, and the use of technology to improve access to me... |
13.06.2015 | 11 apps that will make you smarter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Despite the constant hand-wringing that smartphones will lead to the downfall of society, there’s mounting evidence that your phone hab... |
13.06.2015 | 11 apps that will make you smarter | Despite the constant hand-wringing that smartphones will lead to the downfall of society, there’s mounting evidence that your phone habit may not be so bad after all.
In fact, there are ways your phone might actually be good for you.
We’ve ... |
26.05.2015 | TC Cribs: Lumosity’s Brilliant SOMA Office | Welcome back to a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the office spaces of all kinds of tech companies. Today we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of Lumosity, the company that makes online games... |
20.04.2015 | Peak raises $7M for brain training app from Qualcomm, others | London-based Peak has raised $7 million for its brain training app, in a round led by Creandum with participation from DN Capital, London Venture Partners, and Qualcomm Ventures.
"Since we launched last September, Peak has been used by... |
26.03.2015 | Memorado raises $3.3M to become a brain-training game leader | Brain-training games website Memorado has raised $3.3 million in a Series A investment round.
Berlin-based Memorado has grown to over 3.5 million members since its launch one year ago through minimal spend and mostly by word of mouth. The c... |
26.03.2015 | Memorado raises $3.3M to become a brain-training game leader | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Brain-training games website Memorado has raised $3.3 million in a Series A investment round.
Berlin-based Memorado has grown to over 3... |
03.02.2015 | The hidden digital health opportunities in Obamacare | I’ve worked in digital health for a while (I’m the co-founder of digital health start-up Care at Hand and a physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center), so I was as surprised as you may be when I discovered a tough tr... |
15.01.2015 | Kiko Labs Debuts A Series Of “Brain-Training” Games For Kids | A new company called Kiko Labs is today releasing a series of “brain-training” games for children. Think, perhaps: a Lumosity for the preschool-plus set. Like others claiming to promote cognitive skill development through gameplay, Kiko Lab... |
06.09.2014 | Brain trainer Memorado stealthily collects $1.3 million in funding, 1 million users | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Two ex-Wimdu employees received a $1.3 million se... |
16.06.2014 | With 60M members using its brain-training app, Lumosity finally launches on Android | Lumosity has more than 60 million members using its brain-training app. So, the company is finally launching an app on Android.
Above: Lumosity on Android.
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The San Francisco-based firm hopes to raise the collective IQ... |
14.11.2013 | These are the 50 smartest colleges in the U.S. (and #1 will surprise you) | Forget the Ivy League and Stanford — the smartest college in America is not what you might think.
Washington University in St. Louis came out on top of Lumosity’s annual ranking of the “smartest colleges in America.” Last year’s winner, MIT... |
14.11.2013 | These are the 50 smartest colleges in the U.S. (and #1 will surprise you) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Forget the Ivy League and Stanford — the smartest... |
09.09.2013 | 11 Top Self-Improvement Apps | “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself,” said Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist and philosopher.
Tolstoy may have exaggerated a little, but we understand his point: change starts from within. “Be the c... |
16.08.2013 | With a mobile boom, learning games are a $1.5B market headed toward $2.3B by 2017 (exclusive) | Educational games, also known as “serious games,” are going through a renaissance in part because of the acceptance of learning apps on mobile devices. That’s the finding of a new research report by Ambient Insight.
The forecast predicts th... |
16.08.2013 | With a mobile boom, learning games are a $1.5B market headed toward $2.3B by 2017 (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Educational games, also known as “serious games,” are going through a renaissance in part because of the acceptance of learning apps on... |
07.08.2013 | Lumosity demonstrates how to get your app to the top of the App Store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumosity CEO Kunal Sarkar made a risky move in relaunching — and not just incrementally updating — his popular educational iPhone app, ... |
07.08.2013 | Lumosity demonstrates how to get your app to the top of the App Store | Lumosity CEO Kunal Sarkar made a risky move in relaunching — and not just incrementally updating — his popular educational iPhone app, and early results show that the gambit was a good one.
Lumosity’s brain training games for the iPhone and... |
25.06.2013 | These are the 100 smartest cities in America (study) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ithaca, N.Y. is a relatively small college town, ... |
20.06.2013 | Lumosity analyzes brain function of 40M people to push neuroscience forward | Lumosity is pushing the frontiers of neuroscience. Today, the brain-training startup revealed findings from its Human Cognition Project — an initiative that gives researchers access to its data to conduct experimental research.
Lumosity cre... |
20.06.2013 | Lumosity analyzes brain function of 40M people to push neuroscience forward | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lumosity is pushing the frontiers of neuroscience... |
19.06.2013 | Fresh--and Free--Edtech Products This Summer | Here are some of the edtech products that we've heard have special offers this summer--like "free" for teachers. We don't know all the details of these offers, so read the fine print. In addition, many of these products may be bui... |
03.05.2013 | The DeanBeat: Neurogaming is a nascent market fueled by brain games and sensors | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The NeuroGaming Conference and Expo drew more than 300 people to the YetiZen Innovation Lab this week in San Francisco. That’s a good t... |
03.05.2013 | The DeanBeat: Neurogaming is a nascent market fueled by brain games and sensors | The NeuroGaming Conference and Expo drew more than 300 people to the YetiZen Innovation Lab this week in San Francisco. That’s a good turnout for a first-time conference, and it generated enough buzz to inflate a new investment bubble in ga... |
03.04.2013 | Founder Stories: Lumosity’s Mike Scanlon On Exercising The Brain | Understanding the dynamics of a research-driven software company can be complex. To gain some insight, I recently interviewed Lumosity co-founder and chief scientist Michael Scanlon. Lumosity is an online training program for your brain tha... |
22.03.2013 | Phone And Tablet Games For Grown-Ups | iStockPhoto/ThinkStock |
17.01.2013 | Let the NeuroGames Begin | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Neurogaming is set to disrupt the gaming industry and transform the gaming experience over the next five years. It will ride a wave of ... |
15.12.2012 | How can I get feedback as a junior developer? | Stack Exchange reader comments 18 with 13 posters participating
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01.11.2012 | MIT, Harvard, & Stanford top list of 50 smartest colleges in America | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“My college is smarter than your college!” While ... |
01.11.2012 | MIT, Harvard, & Stanford top list of 50 smartest colleges in America | “My college is smarter than your college!” While I can’t recall ever hearing this taunt, now might be that time, with a new list from Lumosity that measures colleges by students’ cognitive performance.
San Francisco-based Lumosity creates b... |
25.09.2012 | Brain Training: Taking A Look At Lumosity | An unusual idea for improving mental capabilities continues to gain investments and fans. I might be one of the new fans, too. A small firm called Lumosity says that in the last year, it has doubled — to 25 million — the number of people su... |
22.08.2012 | Lumosity raises an additional $31.5M to study and improve cognitive abilities through games | Lumosity, which creates brain-training exercises and games, has raised $31.5 million in additional funding to help enhance cognitive studies and performance around the world.
The San Francisco-based company has gained significant new fundin... |
22.08.2012 | Lumosity Raises $31.5M From Discovery Communications For Brain Fitness Games | Lumosity, a company that creates online fitness games, has raised $31.5 million in Series D funding from Discovery Communications with existing investors Menlo Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Harrison Metal and Norwest Venture Partners also pa... |
22.08.2012 | Lumosity Raises $31.5M in Series D |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leader in online brain training, today announced that it has raised $31.5 million in Series D financing. Discovery Communications led this round.
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22.08.2012 | Lumosity Raises $31.5M in Series D Financing | Lumosity, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of online brain training solutions, has raised $31.5m in Series D financing.
The round was led by Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), with participation from existing investor... |
22.08.2012 | Lumosity raises an additional $31.5M to study and improve cognitive abilities through games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumosity, which creates brain-training exercises and games, has raised $31.5 million in additional funding to help enhance cognitive st... |
22.08.2012 | Lumosity raises $31.5M for online cognitive exercises | The games are fun to play, but they also get serious results
When we last covered Lumosity, the brain training startup had just raised an impressive $32.5 million Series C round. It seemed like a lot for some fun little memorization games. ... |
06.02.2012 | Lumosity sees brain games taking off as 20 million sign up for mental gymnastics | Above: Kunal Sarkar, CEO of Lumosity
Lumosity released impressive growth numbers for its online brain training games. The company has added 6 million additional members since June 2011 for a total of 20 million registered users.
Speaking to... |
06.02.2012 | Lumosity sees brain games taking off as 20 million sign up for mental gymnastics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Above: Kunal Sarkar, CEO of Lumosity
Lumosity rel... |
25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some recent acquisitions such as Electronic Arts’ $750 million purchase of PopCap Games. Tim Chang... |
25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offeri... |
16.06.2011 | Lumosity secures $32.5M for brain exercises | Menlo Ventures is drawn to the company's scientifically-backed exercises and proven results
You don’t often see websites for brain teasers and memory exercises getting huge rounds of funding from major Silicon Valley VC firms, but today Lum... |
16.06.2011 | Lumosity raises $32M round for brain games | Lumosity has quietly amassed more than 14 million members for its brain-training games, which help you improve your core mental abilities. That in turn has enabled the company to raise $32.5 million in a third round of funding today.
In the... |
16.06.2011 | Lumosity raises $32M round for brain games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lumosity has quietly amassed more than 14 million members for its brain-training games, which help you improve your core mental abiliti... |
16.06.2011 | Lumosity Raises $32.5 Million For Brain Fitness Games | Lumosity, a company that creates online fitness games, has raised $32.5 million in Series C financing led by Menlo Ventures, with participation by existing investors FirstMark Capital, Harrison Metal and Norwest Venture Partners. This bring... |
16.06.2011 | Lumosity Raises $32.5M in Series C Financing | Lumosity, a San Francisco, CA-based company that leverages neuroscience to create exercises designed to improve brain performance, has raised $32.5m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from existin... |
19.04.2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into g... |
19.04.2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into games compared to other hot investments such as social media. But in the age of Facebook and mobile gaming... |
27.04.2009 | Posit Science raises $5.6M for brain fitness software | Posit Science, one of several companies offering software to strengthen cognitive function and prevent brain deterioration, has raised $5.6 million in a third round of funding to continue product development and ramp up marketing efforts, r... |
04.06.2008 | KidZui Persuaded by the Power of Free | KidZui is a kid-safe browser made available in March for those willing to pay a monthly subscription fee ($5/mo to start and $10/mo thereafter).
The exclusively subscription-based model (which did include a 30-day trial) was a bit unusual s... |
03.06.2008 | Battle of the brain games: Lumos Labs raises $3 million, Fit Brains debuts | The battle of the brain games is underway. Nintendo set this trend in motion when it launched “BrainAge” for the Nintendo DS in 2006. Since then, a number of startups have sprung up and launched additional games aimed at improving the cogni... |
03.06.2008 | Lumos Labs Gets $3 Million Funding for Brain Games | As you age your brain slows down, your memory goes, and your attention lapses. Online brain fitness games like Lumosity sell the promise of stopping that decline. But as the chart below shows, it is all downhill after 30. (The chart is base... |
18.03.2008 | Are you as smart as a chimp? | I sat down with Mike Scanlon, Co-Founder of Lumos Labs, recently and got a full demo of Lumosity . It quickly revealed how lethargic and slow I’ve become since I started working at home. I know we’ve all said we need to do brain exercises t... |
11.06.2007 | Lumosity raises $400,000 for games to improve brain | Lumos Labs, makers of simple video games that have shown to improve cognition, has raised $400,000 in angel financing from undisclosed investors. Neuroscientists designed a handful of entertaining games to train different parts of your brai... |
31.05.2007 | Get Smart, Play Lumosity | Lumosity is a brain fitness program from Lumos Labs which is designed to improve cognitive function through a series of web-based games and exercises.
In developing Lumosity, Lumos Labs worked closely with leading neuroscientists from Stanf... |
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