InfoHawk Raises $2.25M in Pre-Seed Funding to Detect and Prevent AI-Driven Deception and Scams
Moonshots Capital leads funding round along with prominent angel investors
Austin, TX, June 8, 2026 — InfoHawk, the AI platform built to detect and neutralize deception at internet scale, today announced it has closed a $2.25 million pre-seed financing round, led by Moonshots Capital. InfoHawk was founded by Rob Leathern, Ben Poiesz, and James McCrindle.
Fraud and scams have grown from an internet nuisance into one of the defining threats of the digital age. If scams were a country, it would rank around 30th in the world by GDP — bigger than Austria, Colombia, or Singapore. According to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) Global State of Scams 2025 Report, consumers globally lost an estimated $442 billion to scams in the past 12 months. Across 42 different countries surveyed, 57% of adults said they encountered a scam in the past year and 23% lost money. These figures don't include the global trade in counterfeit goods, estimated at an additional $467 billion per year.
Artificial Intelligence Exacerbates Harms
It's clear that AI tools are supercharging scams, by making them faster & more automated, allowing fraudsters to easily copy legitimate sites, videos or assets in seconds. Scammers also use cheap, customizable and ubiquitous AI and cloud infrastructure to evade detection.
Brands are being impersonated, and enterprise employees are being deepfaked or their accounts compromised.
The components enabling this operate across jurisdictions and platforms, making attribution and enforcement nearly impossible without specialized intelligence and infrastructure. The result is a fraud ecosystem that is faster, cheaper, and harder to detect than at any prior point since the dawn of the Internet.
InfoHawk is Tackling These Problems
InfoHawk detects, analyzes and neutralizes online deception at scale. Delivered by highly performant APIs, InfoHawk's software combines advanced content detection with deep infrastructure mapping to help enterprises protect their users from online scams and digital fraud.
InfoHawk's pre-seed financing round was led by Moonshots Capital. Moonshots Capital is a seed-stage venture firm focused on backing extraordinary leaders. Founding Partner Kelly Perdew on the investment:
"We invest in extraordinary leaders solving hard problems, and InfoHawk fits that bill perfectly. Rob, Ben, and James bring two decades of experience from inside the largest platforms. They understand both how this ecosystem works and how to break it for the bad guys. With AI now turbocharging scams, InfoHawk is building exactly the kind of independent, data-driven infrastructure the internet needs."
— Kelly Perdew, Founding Partner, Moonshots Capital
Moonshots is joined by angel investors with first-hand experience building, defending, regulating and measuring at-scale online platforms. Investors in this round include former two-term Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, as well as Brian O'Kelley (founder of AppNexus), Rob Goldman (former head of Ads at Meta), James Walker (founder and CEO of Centigrade), Scott Spencer (former VP of ads safety and privacy at Google), Vlad Fedorov (CTO of GitHub), Nikila Srinivasan (former VP of Product at WhatsApp/Meta), and others.
About Moonshots Capital
Moonshots Capital is an early-stage venture firm investing in extraordinary leadership building category-defining companies across critical technology sectors, including dual-use, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, and defense innovation. Founded in 2014 by West Point graduates and military veterans Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, Moonshots has backed 131 companies to date, with 33 exits and 18 unicorns. Learn more at moonshotscapital.com or email ir@moonshotscapital.com.
About InfoHawk
InfoHawk is an AI platform built to detect, analyze, and neutralize online deception at internet scale. InfoHawk combines advanced content detection with deep infrastructure mapping to help enterprises protect their users from scams and digital fraud. Learn more at infohawk.com.