ManaMind 🇬🇧
Builds autonomous AI agents that replace manual quality-assurance testing in game development. SVV led the round.
About ManaMind
ManaMind provides an autonomous AI quality assurance solution for video games, utilizing bots that mimic human players to continuously test gameplay, identify bugs, and generate structured bug reports without the need for manual input. The technology operates by observing the game screen, understanding the user interface, making decisions on actions, and logging issues in real-time, all while requiring no engine hooks or APIs.
ManaMind is a UK-based company founded in 2025, now around 6 people. It has raised $1.5M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founder: Emil Kostadinov (Founder & CEO; repeat founder; previously EWOR, James Crawley; Saïd Business School, University of Oxford).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Pre-seed · Generalist (71 funds), Pre-seed · AI (60 funds), Pre-seed · Fintech (59 funds).
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Pre-Seed · $1.5M · Apr 2026
Sure Valley Ventures- Sure Valley Ventures — SVV (Sure Valley Ventures) is a founder-led VC firm based in London that invests in early-stage AI software companies in the UK and Ireland, mostly at pre-seed and seed. · cheques £500k – £1.8M