BY KOUNTINYA SAI CO-FOUNDER HARMONEY.AI

c I retired from a sales role after 20 years in 2019 which involved a lot of travel to spend quality time with my wife Vidya and our daughter Mitra, who had gone from being a tiny bundle of energy into a beautiful teen in the blink of an eye.

When Mitra turned 13 and wanted a Venmo account last summer, we felt the financial journey for a teen should start with saving and earning rather than spending, which can build negative habits when it comes to handling their personal finances in the future.

This actually set Vidya and I thinking about creating something that would motivate teens to become change agents and at the same time make it an enjoyable and rewarding experience for them.

And thus, Harmoney was born, a gamified digital wallet that nudges and rewards teens to self-care, practice healthy habits, invest time in their own mental wellbeing, staying the course when it comes to academics, completing their daily tasks and chores and thereby automatically helping to make the world a better place by contributing to charities around the world.

The trick is in making being good and doing good a habit. Then getting good and feeling good is a natural result. We call it the Law of Harmoney. And it works. We are living proof of this simple universal law!

Running for Asha for Education played a key role in the inception of Harmoney. Asha is a non-profit that helps people train to run long distances and helps convert their miles into smiles by educating under-privileged children in India.

They say, it takes a village to raise a kid. And Harmoney is a digital version of exactly that. Children, parents, schools, local communities, neighbourhood shops, restaurants, partner brands, social organizations… Everyone is in this together.

That’s planet Harmoney.

Over a thousand families and their teen children have been using Harmoney under invite only closed beta for over a year giving Vidya and her team rich feedback of their user behavior. Vidya is working with a team of UX and gamification experts and engineers to prepare Harmoney for a commercial launch in December for the holidays.

The good news is the doing good part of the app works just great and Harmoney can help communities, businesses, schools raise awareness around fitness and mental wellness by helping them to run a fun fund raiser.

Please contact me at [email protected]/ 415-497-7490 to have a chat to discuss how harmoney can help you achieve your fund raising goals. It’s been hard work building harmoney but we are waking up every morning feeling so good about what we are doing, so we must be doing something right – Kount and Vidya.