# Gardens Interactive

> Independent game studio building a persistent social role-playing world around cooperation and emergent play.

## Why it is interesting

Gardens is raising substantial capital before launching its first game, concentrating risk on live-operations execution, retention and community formation.

## Profile

- **Latest funding:** Series B initial closings — More than $35 million (October 7, 2026)
- **Latest known valuation:** Not publicly disclosed
- **Total disclosed equity funding:** $35M
- **Stage:** series-b
- **Status:** private
- **Industries:** consumer, media-entertainment
- **Coverage:** full
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-09T02:03:00.000Z
- **Latest funding investors:** Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, Stanford University, Innovation Endeavors, Zenith Capital

## 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

- Series B initial closings · More than $35 million · October 7, 2026
  Source: https://gardens.dev/blog/gardens-series-b-announce

## Investors in our directory

- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners-nyc
- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/fund/sequoia
- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/fund/index-ventures
- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/fund/accel

## Related articles

- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-gardens-interactive-35m-series-b-social-rpg

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**Last updated:** October 9, 2026

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