Apate
- Round size
- $8.2M
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Sydney, Australia
- Announced
- 16 Oct 2026
Sydney-based Apate, spun out of Macquarie University research, raised an $8.15 million seed round in August, bringing total funding to nearly $10 million. Its conversational AI agents engage scammers to gather intelligence on fraud infrastructure for customers such as Commonwealth Bank and TPG.
Sector. Cybersecurity · anti-fraud conversational AI agents
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- TOKENPOSTPrimaryApate Raises $8.15 Million for AI Agents That Engage Scammers16 Oct 2026