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Gardens Interactive funding, valuation and investors
Independent game studio building a persistent social role-playing world around cooperation and emergent play.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B initial closings
More than $35 million · October 7, 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$35M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series b · Los Angeles, California
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Other: Sequoia Capital , Index Ventures , Accel , Stanford University , Innovation Endeavors , Zenith Capital
Overview
Los Angeles-based distributed game studio founded by developers from Journey, Sky: Children of the Light, What Remains of Edith Finch and other games. Its debut title is an unrevealed social role-playing 'strandbox.'
Why Gardens Interactive is interesting
Gardens is raising substantial capital before launching its first game, concentrating risk on live-operations execution, retention and community formation.
Product & use cases
A still-unannounced persistent social fantasy role-playing game designed around player cooperation, emergent consequences and live operations.
Key facts
- The company said additional Series B closings were still being finalized and expected by the end of October 2026.
- Previously raised a $31.3 million Series A in 2023.
Funding history (newest first)
Series B initial closings
2026-10-07 More than $35 million- Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead)
- Sequoia Capital (participant)
- Index Ventures (participant)
- Accel (participant)
- Stanford University (participant)
- Innovation Endeavors (participant)
- Zenith Capital (participant)
Investors in our directory
Funds linked from Gardens Interactive's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.
Competitive landscape
Edge: The founding team has shipped acclaimed social and narrative games; the investment thesis is that this design pedigree can translate into a durable online world.
Competes for attention with live-service role-playing games and social sandboxes. The main risks are launch quality, user acquisition, ongoing content cost and long-term retention.
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thatgamecompany direct
Studio behind Journey and Sky with a closely related social-play heritage.
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Singularity 6 direct
Developer of social community simulation game Palia.
Industries
Market / IPO context
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