ManaMind Secures €1.2 Million Funding to Revolutionize AI Game Testing

ManaMind Raises €1.2 Million in Pre-Seed Round to Advance AI Game Testing

ManaMind, a pioneering British company specializing in autonomous game testing, has successfully closed a €1.2 million ($1.5 million) pre-Seed funding round. The investment will fuel ManaMind’s mission to revolutionize traditional Quality Assurance (QA) processes by leveraging autonomous AI agents.

The funding round was led by SVV (Sure Valley Ventures) and saw participation from prominent investors such as EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room, and Heartfelt.

Emil Kostadinov, CEO and Co-Founder of ManaMind, emphasized the importance of shifting focus from repetitive manual testing to fostering human creativity in game development. He stated, “The future of game development should be about human creativity, not repetitive testing. We’re automating the manual, time-consuming parts so studios can focus on building amazing worlds.”

The year 2026 has witnessed significant funding activities in sectors closely related to ManaMind’s AI-enabled game QA and autonomous testing solutions. For instance, Spain’s Galtea secured €2.7 million for an AI evaluation platform, while Finland’s Test of Things received €1.2 million for automating cybersecurity and compliance testing.

Several UK-based companies like Ralio, Overmind, and Toyo also raised substantial funds to enhance AI capabilities in various sectors, reflecting a growing interest in agentic AI infrastructure.

ManaMind’s proprietary visual model, HiveMind, is specifically tailored for virtual environments to meet the precision demands of the gaming industry. By employing AI agents that mimic human perception through audio and video, ManaMind’s technology autonomously tests and plays video games.

Founded in 2025, ManaMind aims to optimize its AI model by starting with gaming QA and gradually expanding into broader applications across digital and physical realms.

Highlighting the significance of QA in game development, the company revealed that QA processes typically consume 10-15% of a game’s total budget.

Brian Kinane, Founding Partner at SVV, commended ManaMind for addressing a critical pain point in game development by combining AI and Intelligent Automation. He emphasized the efficiency of ManaMind’s autonomous agents in detecting bugs that human testers might overlook, leading to measurable improvements in QA processes.

As game complexity and content volume continue to increase, ensuring a polished player experience becomes more challenging and costly. ManaMind’s autonomous AI agents play a crucial role in identifying bugs efficiently, generating actionable reports, and facilitating continuous testing alongside development.

Through early deployments, ManaMind has demonstrated significant time savings, with full regression cycles completed in just 6 hours and a remarkable 86% of critical bugs detected before game release.

ManaMind has also established design partnerships with mobile games studio Included Games and hypercasual developer Crazy Labs, signaling its commitment to expanding its technical team, enhancing proprietary models, and scaling operations across key regions.