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AI-powered fraud investigations

Winter 2026Founded 20262 peopleNew York City, NY, USA
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AI Fraud Detection & InvestigationSaaSEnterprise fraud teams and compliance officersHigh competition
Moat
AI-native approach to emerging fraud trends; proprietary detection models trained on real fraud data.
Key risk
Competing against entrenched fraud platforms; false positive rates could damage customer trust.
Why now
Fraud sophistication increasing; companies need AI-powered rather than rule-based detection at scale.
Competitors
Palantir, SAS Fraud Management, Kroll, traditional fraud consulting
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MouseCat enables companies to automatically detect, investigate, and mitigate emerging fraud trends

Founders ยท 2

Nicholas Aldridge
Nicholas AldridgeCo-Founder & CEO
Amazon

Nicholas Aldridge is the Co-Founder and CEO of MouseCat, and a core maintainer of MCP. He spent 6.5 years as a Principal Engineer at AWS AI, where he helped launch and lead Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Agents, and AgentCore. He also represented Amazon on the A2A steering committee. Nicholas has helped some of the largest and most security and privacy sensitive organizations in the world to plan and implement their AI strategies.

Joseph McAllister
Joseph McAllisterCo-Founder & CTO
CoinbaseCornell๐ŸŽ“ Cornell University

Joseph McAllister is the Co-Founder and CTO of MouseCat. Before MouseCat, Joseph spent 4 years building systems that power every risk decision at Coinbase. He focused on streaming pipelines, large-scale data processing workloads, and improving ACH and ATO risk models. While studying Computer Science at Cornell University, he founded Roo Storage, which was acquired in 2020 by Handled (now UniGroup).

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