“I wanted the ten minutes after therapy to exist every day.”
Dr. Ingrid Solberg
Co-founder & CEO
Clinical psychologist. Twelve years in CBT practice in Copenhagen before writing a single line of product spec. Still sees two clients a week.
About Lumera
We’re building aquieter internetfor the mind.
Lumera Labs is a small team of clinicians, designers and engineers who believe mental fitness should feel as ordinary — and as gentle — as a morning walk.
- Founded
- 2023, Copenhagen
- Studios
- Copenhagen · Lisbon
- Team
- 38 people, 11 nationalities
01 Origin
Lumera started in a therapist’s notebook. After twelve years in practice, Dr. Ingrid Solberg kept seeing the same thing: people didn’t need more advice — they needed a few quiet minutes to hear themselves think.
So she built the smallest possible thing: one gentle question each evening, and a place to answer it. No streaks, no scores, no feed. When forty former clients started asking to share it with friends, she called Tomás Reis — a designer she’d met on a silent retreat, of all places.
Three years later, Lumera is used by more than sixty thousand people. It’s grown a clinical board, two studios and an AI that listens across days rather than moments. But the original rule hasn’t changed: every session should leave you a little lighter, in under five minutes.
“We measure success in minutes given back, not minutes spent.”
02 Timeline
Slowly, thenall at once.
Four years, one rule, and a lot of evenings spent asking people how they really feel.
2023
A spreadsheet of feelings
Ingrid shares a simple nightly check-in with forty of her former clients. Thirty-one are still using it three months later.
2024
The first public beta
1,200 people, one Copenhagen studio, and a rule that still stands: every session must be finishable in five minutes.
2025
A board of clinicians
Eight practising clinicians join to review every exercise. Lisbon studio opens. Seed round led by Fjordlight Ventures.
2026
60,000 quieter minds
Lumera launches on Android and the web. Clarity Score ships, built with our lived-experience panel.
Now
03 Principles
What wewon’t trade.
- 01
Leave people better than we found them
Every feature is judged by one question: did someone feel a little lighter afterwards? Engagement is not the goal.
- 02
Close the app sooner
Sessions are capped by design. The best thing Lumera can do for your day is give it back to you.
- 03
Never sell a feeling
No ads, no data brokers, no dark patterns. Your reflections are yours — encrypted, exportable, deletable.
- 04
Evidence before excitement
New ideas start as a hypothesis, get reviewed by clinicians, and only ship when they measurably help.
- People reflecting weekly
- 60k+
- Reflections written
- 1.4M
- Average App Store rating
- 4.8
- Clinicians on our board
- 8
04 Founders
A therapist anda designer walk into a retreat.
“Calm is a design decision. So is its opposite.”
Tomás Reis
Co-founder & Chief Design Officer
A decade designing products used by millions — and learning what they cost people. Leads design and the Lisbon studio.
05 The team
38 people, one verycalm group chat.
Clinicians, designers, engineers and researchers across Copenhagen, Lisbon and nine other countries — with Quiet Fridays and no meetings before ten.
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