Like to keep your circuits sharp and exercised? Do your daily Sudoku? Tote your Nintendo DS around everywhere you go with Brain Age duct-taped to the box? Then you’ll probably like Lumosity. Founded by Lumos Labs, a company piloted by a trio of executives, Lumosity is a service we first briefly reviewed back in July 2007. In that time it’s grown quite a bit.
Today Lumosity’s parent company announces its receipt of $3 million in equity financing to further its research and projects, including its Web-based playground. One partner of the group of financiers, Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, has said that Lumosity stands apart from its competitors, having created a “best-in-class combination of engaging games and scientific rigor.” Other investors include Pequot Ventures and Michael Dearing, a return backer for the company who is listed as a consulting associate professor at Stanford University.