Autism therapy has reached a new frontier. D.C. startup Floreo just closed on $2.1 million in seed funding to further development of its virtual reality. The Friendship Heights–based company was founded in March 2016 by husband-and-wife team Vijay Ravindran and Vibha Sazawal, who were inspired two years ago by their autistic son’s reaction to VR.

“The goal that we have for the company, our next stage, is to build a body of evidence that our therapy is effective, and as a parallel to that develop new therapy lessons and then work with professional organizations, special education schools and therapy companies – and then offer a version of Floreo directly to the consumer by next fall,” Ravindran told Technical.ly DC.

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