ManaMind

ManaMind is a London-based AI startup automating quality assurance for video games. The company builds autonomous agents that play through games end to end, surface bugs, and produce structured reports for development teams — replacing one of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of game production.

The platform is powered by HiveMind, ManaMind's proprietary visual model trained for virtual environments. Agents perceive games through audio and video the way human players do, and run continuous regression cycles alongside development. The company says its system completes a full regression pass in six hours and catches 86% of critical bugs before shipping. Design partnerships are in place with Included Games and Crazy Labs.

Founded in 2025 by Emil Kostadinov and Sabtain Ahmad, ManaMind raised £1.1M in pre-seed funding in April 2026, led by Sure Valley Ventures with participation from EWOR, Ascension, SyndicateRoom, and Heartfelt. The team plans to use the capital to expand engineering, advance HiveMind, and extend its autonomous testing infrastructure beyond gaming into wider software and, eventually, robotics.