# This Imperial College spinout using physics AI to run the world’s refineries just raised $20M from KBR and Databricks

> Source: <https://techfundingnews.com/pplied-computing-20m-series-a-kbr-databricks/>
> Published: 2026-07-16 07:15:00+00:00

One of the world’s largest oil refineries is already using AI from Applied Computing, a London startup founded…