Mindflair has made a fresh investment in ManaMind, a London-based autonomous game testing company, via its stake in a fund managed by Sure Valley Ventures, with EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room and Heartfelt also participating.
Sure Valley Ventures led the US$1.5 million round, which will go on expanding the technical team, accelerating proprietary model development and pushing into new geographies.
ManaMind’s platform uses AI agents to play through games, flag bugs and generate actionable reports for studios — cutting the slog of repetitive manual QA, one of the more painful cost lines in modern game development.
Mindflair said early commercial traction is encouraging, with design partnerships already secured with mobile studio Included Games and hypercasual heavyweight Crazy Labs.
Nicholas Lee, Director of Mindflair plc, said: “ManaMind represents an interesting application of agentic AI in the global games industry, where quality assurance remains a significant cost and operational challenge for studios. By automating repetitive testing workflows, ManaMind has the potential to help development teams improve efficiency and game quality, and we are pleased to see SVV backing another ambitious AI business with clear commercial use cases.”