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Apate.AI funding, valuation and investors
Adversarial conversational AI agents that engage scammers and harvest fraud intelligence for banks and institutions.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$8.15M · August 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$8.2M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
seed · Sydney, Australia (Delaware-incorporated; expanding to U.S./London)
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Lobby Capital
Other: OIF Ventures
Overview
Apate.AI is a Sydney-born cybersecurity company that deploys adversarial AI decoys to infiltrate scam networks across voice and text channels. Startup Daily reported a US$8.15 million (A$11.4 million) seed led by Lobby Capital on August 31, 2026. Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the named customer reference.
Why Apate.AI is interesting
August 31, 2026 US$8.15M (A$11.4M) seed led by Lobby Capital as the CBA-proven anti-scam platform relocates to the U.S. — company claims 2.5M+ decoy conversations.
Product & use cases
Adversarial scam-engagement agents that waste attacker time and extract disruption intelligence.
- Bank fraud operations
- Telco scam disruption
- Government cyber intelligence
Key facts
- US$8.15M / A$11.4M seed led by Lobby Capital (Aug 31, 2026)
- Named customer: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Company: >2.5M decoy conversations; >250k intel artefacts
Funding history (newest first)
Seed
2026-08 $8.15M- Lobby Capital (lead)
- OIF Ventures (participant)
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