What does Apate.ai do?
Apate.ai builds adversarial conversational AI agents that infiltrate scam networks across voice, messaging, and email, posing as victims to waste fraudsters' time and extract real-time intelligence. Founded in Sydney out of research at Macquarie University's Cyber Security Hub, it serves banks, telcos, and government agencies including Commonwealth Bank of Australia and TPG Telecom, and reincorporated as a Delaware company in August 2026.