InfoHawk, the AI platform built to detect and neutralize deception at internet scale, 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.

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.