1/We at @MoonshotsCap are excited to share that we have led InfoHawk's $2.25M pre-seed round! 🚀 medium.com/leadership-prevai… @kperdew @unleashcraig

Huge partnership for @IDme and @Plaid. Agencies can verify the person and confirm the bank account belongs to them before a single dollar moves. Identity already checks who is asking. This closes where the money lands. Eligible people get paid faster. Fewer dollars go missing. @Blake_Hall and the ID.me team keep putting trusted identity to work on the hardest payment problems in government. @unleashcraig @MoonshotsCap

@IDme is the verification layer for a healthcare offer that matters: verified pros get 30% off @ouraring Ring 5 through mid-November. Confirm with ID.me at checkout, then the discount unlocks. Identity first. Access second. Great example of how trusted identity belongs in consumer health, and the applications it can have across the industry. @Blake_Hall @unleashcraig @MoonshotsCap

Yesterday at @outpostspace : From Microgravity to Market with Sophia Space and Aero X Ventures (SoCal Deep Tech Week). Packed house. Conversation moderated by Mayor of El Segundo, Chris Pimentel, with @ImJasonDunn , @UberRob , and @ldmounts . Getting to orbit is no longer the hard part. Getting things back is. That return leg is what turns in-space production into a market. National goal: 1,000+ launches and reentries a year by 2030 (178 last year). Thank you to everyone who joined us. @kperdew @unleashcraig

This Wednesday in LA: From Microgravity to Market, part of SoCal Deep Tech Week. Co-hosting with @outpostspace , Sophia Space, and Aero X Ventures. Stellar panel with @ImJasonDunn , @UberRob , and @ldmounts , moderated by Mayor Chris Pimentel of @elsegundocity. Space is limited (approval required). RSVP: luma.com/p5iprjx8 See you there! @unleashcraig @kperdew

@AustinBizJournal named our co-founder and GP @unleashcraig to its 2026 Power Players list, with extraordinary peers including Michael Dell, Kendra Scott, and Matthew McConaughey. Congrats, Craig!! Very proud to see portfolio founders @elonmusk of @SpaceXAI and @neuralink, and @jeffcardn of @Apptronik, on the same list. @unleashcraig and @kperdew started @MoonshotsCap in 2014. We have invested in more than 200 founders and 135+ companies, many of which started or scaled in Austin. We love growing with this community and pouring back into bringing founders, talent, and opportunity to our city. What Austin offers founders is just the beginning of what we believe is possible here. Leadership prevails! 🚀

At this year's Extraordinary Leadership Summit, @RobLeathern shared just how big the online scam industry has gotten: $440 billion lost last year, across 40 countries. Most fraud tools still play defense, one flagged post at a time. @InfoHawk is going after the infrastructure scammers depend on to reach us in the first place, AI built to dismantle AI-driven deception at the source. Full presentation: piped.video/cWbG5T_gGf0?si=yFBS…

Outpost is proud to welcome retired U.S. Army Gen. Andrew Poppas to the team as a special advisor to our CEO @ImJasonDunn and President @amirblachman. His 37 years of experience leading readiness, sustainment, and logistics for the U.S. Army, will bring Outpost direct insight from one of the Army’s most senior operational leaders into the mission needs shaping the next era of defense logistics. Welcome to the return lane.

I sat down with AJ Pasciuti on @combat_story to trace how military training shaped everything that came after. The Apprentice, the early startup years, and building @MoonshotsCap with @unleashcraig around one conviction: extraordinary leadership wins. If you're a veteran navigating a transition, a founder in the early stages of building, or someone thinking about how service shapes the way people operate in business, check out my episode with AJ Pasciuti on @Combat_Story. piped.video/watch?v=3QwHu9P4…

Some news: InfoHawk has raised $2.25M in pre-seed funding to detect and neutralize AI-driven deception, scams, and fraud at internet scale. 🦅 Scams have quietly become one of the defining threats of the digital age: consumers lost an estimated $442B to them in 2025, and AI is making fraud faster, cheaper, and harder to detect every day. We started InfoHawk to fight back with the kind of independent, data-driven infrastructure the internet actually needs. Huge thanks to Kelly Perdew, Craig Cummings, and the team at Moonshots Capital for leading the round. And we're grateful for our incredible group of angel investors who've built, defended, and regulated platforms at scale. Thank you for believing is us. This is just the beginning. If you care about making the internet safer, we'd love to talk. Link to site below.

2/InfoHawk verifies authenticity across the channels attackers exploit first. As convincing fakes flood every platform, that verification stops being an add-on and becomes core infrastructure, sitting between organizations and the synthetic content trying to pass through. info-hawk.com

Back-to-back on the CNBC Disruptor 50 for @Apptronik alongside @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @anduriltech on this year's list. Nearly $1B raised. Commercial deployments inside @MercedesBenz and @GXOLogistics facilities. A @GoogleDeepMind partnership advancing Apollo's reasoning capabilities. Another humanoid robot expected later this year. The @Jabil partnership introduces a new dynamic. Apollo robots are now being used to help manufacture more Apollo robots, which shifts the scaling question from how much capital a company can raise to how quickly its production system can compound. Humanoid robotics is moving from demonstration to deployment, and Apptronik is one of the companies defining what that transition looks like. @kperdew

Headed to SF next week for MVS26 (Feb 11–12) with Team @MoonshotsCap. The Military & Veteran Startup Conference is the largest gathering of veteran founders, investors, and operators building high-growth companies. I’ll be speaking on Capital at the Front Line: Investing in National Security with an outstanding group of leaders. At Moonshots Capital, nearly ⅓ of our AUM backs veteran-founded companies, because mission, resilience, integrity, and drive are forged through service. If you’re building, investing, or supporting veteran entrepreneurs, this is the room to be in. Tickets: luma.com/mvs2026 #MVS26

The @SpaceX/@xAI acquisition valued at $1.25T isn't just the largest deal in history: it's a blueprint for solving AI's hardest problems. Frontier AI meets space infrastructure at unprecedented scale. AI's real bottlenecks are physical: energy, compute capacity, infrastructure. This deal tackles them through vertical integration. As investors in @xAI (now @SpaceX), @KellyPerdew, @CraigCummings, and the Moonshots Capital team are excited to see what they build next as they take on one of the most complex infrastructure challenges of our time.

SGNL (Fund 2) is being acquired by @CrowdStrike for $740M. SGNL redefines access & authorization with real-time, just-in-time decisions as risk and environments change. Huge congrats to founders Scott Kriz, Erik Gustavson, and the entire SGNL team, and to CrowdStrike.