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InfoHawk Raises $2.25M in Pre-Seed Funding to Detect and Prevent AI-Driven Deception and ScamsMoonshots Capital leads round along with prominent angel investors AUSTIN, Texas, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 Jamie 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. Consumers globally lost an estimated $442 billion to scams in 2025 (GASA.org). And the global trade in counterfeit goods is estimated at an additional $467 billion per year. AI tools are supercharging scams, by making them faster & more automated, allowing fraudsters to easily copy legitimate sites, videos or assets in seconds. Brands are being impersonated, and enterprise employees are being deepfaked or their accounts compromised. Scammers 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 ever before. InfoHawk is Tackling These Problems InfoHawk detects, analyzes and neutralizes online deception at scale. Delivered by highly performant APIs, InfoHawk's software combines advancedcontent detection with deep infrastructure mapping to help enterprises protect their users from online scams and digital fraud. InfoHawk's financing round was led by Moonshots Capital, a seed-stage venture firm: "We invest in extraordinary leaders solving hard problems, and InfoHawk fits that bill perfectly. Rob, Ben, and Jamie 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." Moonshots is joined by angel investors with experience building, defending, and regulating 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 for WhatsApp) and others. About Moonshots Capital About InfoHawk
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