Kasada Bot Defense and Account Intelligence

Kasada is a bot management and fraud prevention company founded in 2015 by Sam Crowther and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with hubs in New York, Boston, Melbourne and San Francisco. It addresses automated attacks on web, mobile and API traffic such as account takeover, scraping, checkout fraud and promotion abuse.

The platform combines Bot Defense, which mitigates sophisticated bots without CAPTCHAs, Account Intelligence for detecting organized fraud rings, Kasada IQ for Fraud, and AI Agent Trust for controlling AI agent traffic down to the HTTP request. Named customers include Hyatt, Wizz Air, Coles Group, Sportsbet and Vercel.

• Bot Defense: mitigates sophisticated bot attacks without CAPTCHAs.
• Account Intelligence: detects fraud and abuse from organized rings to individual operators.
• AI Agent Trust: provides visibility and control over what AI agents can access.
• Kasada IQ for Fraud: surfaces fraud warning signs before losses occur.
• Use-case coverage: account takeover, scraping, guest checkout fraud, SMS toll fraud, promo abuse and multi-accounting.

An e-commerce platform in Vietnam can protect login, promotion codes and checkout from scripted abuse during sale campaigns. A telco or digital bank can reduce SMS toll fraud and fake sign-ups on its app and web portals.

Blocks account takeover, scraping, guest checkout fraud, SMS toll fraud and promotion abuse without adding CAPTCHA friction for real customers. Gives visibility into AI agent traffic at request level. The vendor cites a 200% ROI in under six months in its own business case.

Bot-driven fraud is shifting toward credential abuse, promotion abuse and automated AI agents that browse and purchase on behalf of users. Banks, telcos and e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia face the same login and checkout abuse, which raises demand for bot defense that does not harm conversion.

Founded in 2015 in Sydney by Sam Crowther. Announced a US$20 million round led by EQT on 3 February 2026, with Ten Eleven Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures and Reinventure among existing investors. About page lists SOC compliance badge and investors including In-Q-Tel.