Games That Make You Smarter

Maria Burns Ortiz

Last month, I found myself standing in the middle of a frozen lake in sub-zero windchill learning about ice fishing. You might be reading this thinking, that doesn’t sound like a typical day-in-the-life of an edtech CEO. But when the team of game designers you’re working with is a bunch […]

How We Are Making Better Games by Ice Fishing

March 20, 2023 in 7Gen Blocks / Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

Wharton Impact Venture Associates, a student-run impact investing program out of the University of Pennsylvania, announced this week that it has sourced 7 Generation Games as a deal to connect for community round investment. In sourcing 7 Generation Games, WIVA wrote: Beyond the impact, the student team was incredibly impressed […]

Wharton Impact Venture Associates Selects 7 Generation Games as Deal

September 14, 2022 in Founders Corner / fundraising / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Be part of our company — We’ve been grinding away here at 7 Generation Games, both on our WeFunder campaign as well as growing 7 Generation Games. But we wanted to try our best to keep you in the loop on how that’s going. In less than a month from publicly launching our WeFunder campaign, we […]

100+ investors, $65K raised and just getting started!

August 15, 2022 in Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

For the second year, 7 Generation Games has partnered with the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation for our Level Up internship and micro-internship program. Level Up is a program designed to provide paid internships to high school students from communities underrepresented in the tech and gaming industry to give them […]

Meet Our 4 Superstar Interns Leveling Up This Summer

July 21, 2022 in Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

invest in 7 Generation Games - go to our WeFunder page — 7 Generation Games Community Round has officially launched to the public. First and foremost, thanks so much to all who invested in our WeFunder community round during “Friends Invest First.” We were hoping to get 50 early investors before our public launch, and at launch, we were already at 71! […]

Our WeFunder Campaign Has Publicly Launched!

July 4, 2022 in Founders Corner / fundraising by Maria Burns Ortiz

So I’ve got a bit of news to share. They say good things come in threes – and in the case of 7 Generation Games making headlines today, that was certainly true. Featured as part of Google’s #WeArePlay I knew this feature was coming out today – and I’m so […]

#WeArePlay, EdWeek and MPR: Good News Cubed

June 29, 2022 in Founders Corner / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Be part of our company — If you follow us on social media, subscribe to our newsletter or read our blog, you may have seen that we are currently in the middle of a community round with WeFunder. Then again, maybe you do all of those things, and you haven’t. A few years ago, we were […]

Invest in our WeFunder Today! “Friends Invest First” Ends 6/30

June 28, 2022 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

A few years ago, when we were doing a Kickstarter for AzTech: Meet the Maya, I was trying to think of a catchy subject line that would get people to open my email. My husband suggested “Free Cheeseburgers” because everyone loves burgers. Our CTO Dennis weighed in on this very […]

Better Than Burgers: Investing in 7 Generation Games

June 21, 2022 in Founders Corner / fundraising by Maria Burns Ortiz

When people ask us about why we started 7 Generation Games, I talk about how we believed there had to be a better way. To us, that initially meant a better way to teach math and engage kids. But as 7 Generation Games has grown, our mission of doing better […]

What is 7 Gen Blocks? A Platform to Make Educational Games

June 15, 2022 in Customized Games / Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you read our blog, follow our social media, backed us on Kickstarter or subscribe to our newsletter, you may know by now that we are doing a community round as part of 7 Generation Games current fundraising round. Now, when I mentioned doing a community round to people who […]

Doing a Community Round… But What Will Investors Think?

June 7, 2022 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

I spent all of last week in New York for the final – and in-person! – week of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program as part of the national cohort. It was an incredible end to a really worthwhile experience. If you’re not familiar with 10KSB, it’s a program […]

Lessons I Learned in Goldman Sachs 10KSB Program

June 1, 2022 in Founders Corner / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Earlier this week, we told you about how we launched a WeFunder campaign that allows anyone to become an investor in 7 Generation Games for $100 or less. Today, we wanted to tell you why. Not why you should invest in us and the work we’re doing (although we would […]

Why We Do What We Do & Why We’d Love ...

May 27, 2022 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz