Apate.AI

Apate.AI is a Sydney-founded cybersecurity company that deploys fleets of conversational AI agents to keep phone and message scammers engaged, waste their time and extract intelligence on how scams operate. It has run more than 2.5 million conversations with threat actors and extracted over 250,000 intelligence artifacts, counts Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a customer, and raised an $8.15 million seed round led by Lobby Capital in August 2026, when it reincorporated in the US.

Company Facts

• Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
• Type: startup
• Website: https://www.apate.ai
• Industries: Cybersecurity, AI & Machine Learning, Information Technology