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ManaMind
AI-driven bots enhancing game QA efficiency by 80%, offering seamless bug detection and comprehensive reporting
About ManaMind
ManaMind is a UK autonomous game-testing company whose AI agents perceive games through audio and video, play through titles like human QA testers, and produce actionable bug reports so studios can cut repetitive manual testing. Founded in 2025 by Emil Kostadinov (CEO; Oxford MBA, EWOR Fellow, former game tester) and Sabtain Ahmad (PhD in machine learning), it is building proprietary visual model HiveMind for virtual environments, with early design partners including Included Games and Crazy Labs; the longer-term vision is an autonomous testing layer for software and robotics beyond gaming. In April 2026 ManaMind raised €1.2 million ($1.5 million) pre-Seed led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) with EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room and Heartfelt to expand the technical team and accelerate model development. Sources: EU-Startups 30 Apr 2026.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Employees
- 8
- Open positions
- 3
- Dealroom signal
- 80.1/100
- Industry
- Gaming, Enterprise Software
- Sub-industry
- Mobile Gaming, Console & PC Gaming
- Sector
- AI, Spinout, QA-testing, uk is8 digital and technologies, uk is8 creative industries
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Apr 2026 | $1.5M | $6M | Ascension · EWOR · Sure Valley Ventures · Syndicate Room | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Nov 2025 | $1.1M | $4.4M | Undisclosed | ↗ |
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Investors
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Seed5 investors entered at this stage
Sure Valley Ventures
Ascension
EWOR
Syndicate Room
HEARTFELT_
Other known investors2 additional known investors
Technical University of Vienna
TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center
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