{"slug": "this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just", "title": "This Imperial College spinout using physics AI to run the world’s refineries just raised $20M from KBR and Databricks", "summary": "Applied Computing, an Imperial College spinout using physics-based AI to optimize refinery operations, raised $20 million from KBR and Databricks. The London startup's technology is already deployed at one of the world's largest oil refineries.", "body_md": "One of the world’s largest oil refineries is already using AI from Applied Computing, a London startup founded…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just", "canonical_source": "https://techfundingnews.com/pplied-computing-20m-series-a-kbr-databricks/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 07:15:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 07:27:03.877370+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Applied Computing", "Imperial College", "KBR", "Databricks"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-imperial-college-spinout-using-physics-ai-to-run-the-worlds-refineries-just.jsonld"}}