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MouseCat

The AI Toolkit for Risk Teams

mousecat.ai
HQ: New York, NY, USA
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

MouseCat is an early-stage B2B AI company building agentic fraud-investigation and compliance software for risk teams. Public sources describe its product as running inside customer cloud accounts, integrating with internal and external data sources, and using analyst feedback to improve fraud detection and reduce false positives.

Primary product

Agentic AI fraud investigation and compliance platform

Founded

2026

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1-10

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI-powered fraud investigation and risk management software

Offices

New York City, NY, United States

Business model

Enterprise SaaS
On-prem / customer-cloud deployment
Demo-led B2B sales

Funding

Stage

pre-seed

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Pre-Seed · Mar 2026

Latest amount

$500K

Pre-Seed

Mar 2026 · Y Combinator

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Nicholas Aldridge

Co-Founder & CEO

Joseph McAllister

Co-Founder & CTO

Investors

Imagination Capital
SurgePoint Capital
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Highly technical, privacy-conscious, and feedback-driven; the company emphasizes customer data ownership, human-in-the-loop workflows, and continuous improvement from analyst input.

Product & market

Pricing

Custom enterprise pricing; demo-led sales

Differentiators

  • —Runs inside customer cloud accounts / on-prem for data ownership
  • —Human-in-the-loop feedback and analyst overrides
  • —Transparent prompts, tools, evaluation suites, and tuning pipelines
  • —Continuously improves from past cases and analyst feedback
  • —Uses multiple data sources and APIs to investigate cases

Technology

agentic AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Claude Code integrations
Codex integrations
customer cloud deployment
prompts, tools, evaluation suite and tuning pipelines
human-in-the-loop review
knowledge base
WHOIS / Secretary of State / web scraping / phone verification
audit trails

Customers

Banks
Fintechs
Marketplaces
Crypto exchanges
Large marketplace operators

Competitors

NICE Actimize
Verafin
GBG

Scale & contact

hello@mousecat.ai

Latest news

MouseCat says it is scaling with large anti-fraud teams and preventing millions in losses

LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Nicholas Aldridge said the team had roughly tripled in size, was running above 80% precision across customers, and helped prevent more than $1.5M in losses in June.

MouseCat announces Patrick Monaghan joined as General Counsel & Member of Technical Staff

LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Company post announcing a new team member and describing his role in product deployment, scaling, and deal support.

Claude's Corner: MouseCat, AI Agents That Investigate Fraud

StartupHub.ai · Apr 2026

A third-party writeup describing MouseCat's fraud-investigation agents, target markets, and technical architecture.

MouseCat YC W26 launch post: human-in-the-loop tuning and MCP integrations

LinkedIn · Mar 2026

Nicholas Aldridge announced the YC launch and highlighted new features including human-in-the-loop tuning, custom MCP integrations, and shadow-mode evaluation.

MouseCat launches AI-powered fraud investigations on Y Combinator

Y Combinator · Mar 2026

YC launch post introducing MouseCat's agentic fraud investigation platform, its customer-cloud deployment model, and the founders.

AppBook a demoHomepageJoseph McAllister LinkedInLinkedIn company pageNicholas Aldridge LinkedInStartupHub.ai articleYC company pageYC launch page
SourcesMouseCat official siteBook a DemoMouseCat appYC company pageYC launch pageLinkedIn company pageNicholas Aldridge LinkedInJoseph McAllister LinkedInPitchBook profileTracxn profileVCBacked profileStartupHub.ai article

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