As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the fraud threat landscape, a new set of companies is emerging to address these AI-driven challenges, creating specialized tools that span real-time fraud detection, digital identity verification, and the infrastructure required to govern AI agents.
Market intelligence firm CB Insights has analyzed this sector, identifying recently funded ventures that are demonstrating strong potential for success. Compiled into a map, these companies were selected from more than 1,800 companies based on their Mosaic Score, a metric that assesses a private company’s health, growth, and success potential using funding data, personnel changes, market strength, and online sentiment.
Investment in AI-enabled fraud detection surges
The 200+ shortlisted companies reveal several emerging trends in the sector. First, investment in fraud detection and digital identity is soaring as AI-initiated fraud escalated in 2025. The fraud detection and prevention category, which encompasses companies in areas including AI-generated content detection, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and account takeover protection, saw a 3.5x increase in equity funding from 2024 to 2025.
In particular, transaction monitoring, AI-generated content detection, and bot detection all captured significantly more capital last year. This shift was driven by an increasing number of buyers augmenting legacy rule-based systems with AI-powered controls built for more adaptive, complex threats.
A number of recent deals exemplify this trend. Doppel, an AI-native social engineering defense platform from the US, secured in November 2025 a US$70 million Series C at a US$600 million valuation to expand its portfolio of products and offerings.
Using agentic AI and a real-time threat graph, Doppel detects and unifies threats and automates takedowns. The platform also strengthen employee defenses through deepfake-driven simulations and training.
Doppel reported sustained record growth in 2025, achieving a 3x annual recurring revenue (ARR) year-over-year (YoY) growth and more than 5x increase in Fortune 500 customers, which currently include Coinbase, Ramp, Commerce, and Orrick.
Another example illustrating this trend is the US$20 million round secured by Kasada in February 2026 to expand globally and deliver a broader suite of products. Kasada is an Australian provider of advanced bot defense, offering a platform for businesses to decide and enforce how users, AI agents, and automated traffic interact across websites, applications, and APIs.
The company claims to safeguard over US$150 billion in e-commerce revenue while reducing operational costs and dramatically improving security outcomes. This approach enables an average return on investment of over 250% driven largely by cost savings.
The advent of agentic trust infrastructure
The second major trend revealed in the CB Insights map is the emergence of agentic trust infrastructure as a distinct category this year.
AI agents are entering the payments ecosystems. However, in a world where machines initiate financial activity without a human in the loop, conventional fraud controls and authorization protocols are ill-suited to verify these transactions.
This has driven the emergence of a new infrastructure layer to fill the gap. These companies span agent authentication and authorization, runtime governance and oversight, and observability and evaluation.
The agentic trust infrastructure category currently leads the market map with 99% average YoY headcount growth. This underscores that operational safety and reliability have become paramount as organizations race to build foundational capabilities for AI agent deployment.
Furthermore, year-to-date (YTD) equity funding for agentic trust infrastructure companies in 2026 already exceeds full-year 2025 numbers. Notable deals include those involving Oasis Security, and Arcade.dev.
Oasis Security is a US-based access management platform that enables organizations to manage AI agents and machines, giving enterprises control, enforcement, and full visibility over access to critical systems.
The company reports robust growth in enterprise adoption, with ARR growing 5x YoY. It serves large enterprise customers including BHG Financial, Osaic, Citizens Bank, and Chipotle.
Oasis Security secured US$120 million in Series B funding in March 2026 to expand and deepen research and development (R&D), and support expansion across AI agent frameworks and enterprise systems.
Arcade.dev, from the US, is a tool-calling platform and runtime for AI agents that simplifies the integration of authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement across applications. Its platform helps large organizations deploy AI agents in production, letting them use company systems safely and in a compliant manner.
Arcade.dec raised in June 2026 a US$60 million Series A to accelerate product development, ecosystem growth, and hiring. The company claims tool call volume has surged 25x in six months, and says its platform is already being used in enterprise environments at the world’s largest banks and global enterprises, including a top US bank, Prosus, and LangChain.
Top AI fraud prevention companies from APAC
Of the 200+ companies shortlisted by CB Insights, approximately a dozen are headquartered in the Asia-Pacific (APAC region), representing key local innovation. These companies include:
- Identity Fraud (IDfy), an Indian identity verification company performing over 200 million verification checks every year;
- Signzy, another Indian identity verification and compliance platform working with over 10 Fortune 30 companies, some of the largest banks in India, and a top acquiring bank in the US;
- zkMe, a company from Hong Kong providing a Web3 identity verification platform that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let users prove personal or financial attributes without revealing their underlying data;
- Terminal 3, another Hong Kong-based Web3 infrastructure company that builds decentralized identity, know-your-customer (KYC), and zero-knowledge data systems for verifying users;
- Kasada, an Australian cybersecurity company focused on stopping bots and automated attacks;
- Data Zoo, an identity verification data provider from Australia serving fintech companies and financial institutions including eToro, Experian, and Sumsub; and
- Megvii, a computer vision AI company from China best known for facial recognition and AI perception systems.
The fraud prevention market map for the AI era
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