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Funding and backers

Total raised
$16M
1 round on record
Latest round
$16M
Venture round · Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
4
Samsung Next, Radical Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
26 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 11 New executive Artificial Agency Names Greg Canessa as Chief Operating Officer · YahooFinance Jul 18, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $16M · TechCrunch 2023 Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2024 $16M — TechCrunch
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Overview

Generative behavior for the future of games. To create games that live and breathe, we developed a behavior engine that uses foundation models to turn game systems into intelligent agents who can act and react autonomously.

News

News YahooFinance 4 months ago
Artificial Agency Names Greg Canessa as Chief Operating Officer
Game industry veteran joins executive team to grow commercial capabilities and support studio adoption of generative behavior engineEDMONTON, Alberta, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Artificial Agency, an AI company pioneering generative behavior for ga
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Press release The Manila Times 1 year ago
Artificial Agency Launches Behavior Engine to Create Video Games That Feel Truly Alive
Technology empowers developers to add agentic intelligence to any system within a game, creating characters, events, and scenarios that are in tune with the player and each other
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News aigamechangers.substack.com 1 year ago
"I'm excited to think of new types of games that nobody experienced before"
Brian Tanner of Artificial.Agency on bringing human-like decision-making into any game environment at runtime.
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News essays.georgestrakhov.com 1 year ago
The Ladder of Artificial Agency
A model for thinking about AI-Human interaction design through the lens of shared agency
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News AP News 2 years ago
Can AI make video games more immersive? Some studios turn to AI-fueled NPCs for more interaction
For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys.
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News BNN 2 years ago
- BNN Bloomberg
Brian Tanner, co-founder and CEO of Artificial Agency, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the companies raising US$16M for generative AI gaming.
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News pgbiz 2 years ago
Artificial Agency raises $16 million to alter NPC behaviour in games
Canada-based Artificial Agency has raised $16 million in funding to develop its AI-powered behaviour engine that can improve how NPCs behave and interact
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Artificial Agency over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~14 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
QA
100% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Edmonton
Edmonton Canada
HQ
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for QA
seen since Feb 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $83k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Edmonton
AI Agents
LLM
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
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Financials

Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $16M Details