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VentureQuest

Players start and grow businesses from scratch -- beginning with a lemonade stand and progressing through food trucks, retail shops, tech startups, and enterprises. Make real business decisions about pricing, marketing, hiring, inventory, and competition. Different from MintQuest (personal finance): this teaches how businesses actually work. The only iOS-native business simulation for ages 9-14.

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VentureQuest is an entrepreneurship, business simulation, and personal finance education app for ages 9-14 where players ideate products, launch businesses, manage operations, and grow an enterprise while learning market dynamics, customer behavior, budgeting, saving, investing, compound interest, a

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Learning goal

Players start and grow businesses from scratch -- beginning with a lemonade stand and progressing through food trucks, retail shops, tech startups, and enterprises. Make real business decisions about pricing, marketing, hiring, inventory, and competition. Different from MintQuest (personal finance): this teaches how businesses actually work. The only iOS-native business simulation for ages 9-14.

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Question kits

16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.

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On-device AI mentor

FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.

How VentureQuest handles your kid's data

  • ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
  • ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
  • ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
  • ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
  • ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in

Full parent privacy guide →

Built with ForgeKit

VentureQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.

Coming to the App Store

VentureQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.

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