Moonshot

What Moonshot does

Moonshot CVE Limited is a London-headquartered data analytics company founded in 2015 by Vidhya Ramalingam and Ross Frenett that builds proprietary technology to identify and mitigate online harms, including terrorism and violent extremism, targeted violence, disinformation, child sexual exploitation, human trafficking and tech-facilitated gender-based violence. Its core technology stack combines the world's largest database of extremist and terrorist indicators (over 10 million keywords, propaganda and phrases across 16 languages) with machine-learning risk-assessment models trained by clinicians, psychologists and behavioral scientists, multimodal threat detection across more than 50 mainstream and fringe platforms, and an intervention methodology (the Redirect Method / Online Violence Prevention Model) that connects at-risk individuals with trained counselors and support services.

The product portfolio is organized around four pillars: a managed Threat Protection service for executives, venues and high-profile organizations; subscription and bespoke intelligence products (Threat Bulletin, Threat Monitoring, Bespoke Insights); the Online Violence Prevention Model deployed as multi-year national programmes in Canada (five provinces), New York State and New Zealand; and resilience-building services (Online Safety / Public Communications, Workforce Preparedness, large-scale prebunking campaigns). Co-branded offerings such as Team USA Safe Online with the USOPC and the WNBA Chicago Sky partnership extend the same technology stack into sports.

Revenue is generated primarily through multi-year government and enterprise contracts (subscription, professional services and managed services), supplemented by a self-serve subscription product (Threat Bulletin) and bespoke research engagements. The go-to-market is enterprise and government field sales supported by strategic channel partners (Public Safety Canada, Spotify Safety Advisory Council, Google/Jigsaw, USOPC, Crisis Text Line, CTH Advisors), with policy and thought-leadership influence (G7, TED, SXSW, Mobile World Congress) as a top-of-funnel motion. Moonshot operates from London (HQ), Washington DC, Toronto/Ontario and Dublin, with programmes and partners in more than 60 countries.

Name

Moonshot

Legal name

Moonshot CVE Limited

Website

https://moonshotteam.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Moonshot CVE Limited is a London-based data analytics company founded in 2015 that builds proprietary technology and intervention methodologies to identify and mitigate online harms — including extremism, targeted violence, disinformation and abuse — for governments, platforms, sports organizations and high-profile individuals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Threat Intelligence & Violence Prevention Software

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Attack Detection & Response for Cloud/SaaS (SOC for Cloud) (HDADAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) (HDAEAJAH), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (HDABAHAE)

Keywords

• Online threat intelligence
• Violence prevention services
• Disinformation resilience
• Threat monitoring platforms
• Extremist content detection

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Threat Protection Services: Recurring enterprise and government service contracts for ongoing online threat monitoring, assessment and direct-action mitigation for high-profile individuals, venues and assets (used by US Olympic & Paralympic Committee, WNBA Chicago Sky, elected officials, military, etc.).
2. Threat Bulletin Subscription: Subscription-based weekly intelligence briefing product (Moonshot Threat Bulletin) sold to US-based professionals needing actionable targeted-violence intelligence; free trial offered as acquisition channel.
3. Online Violence Prevention Program Delivery: Multi-year national / state programs delivered to governments (Canada across five provinces, New York State, New Zealand) covering local-network build-out, capacity building, digitization of services, and population-scale interventions.
4. Bespoke Intelligence & Research Engagements: Custom intelligence products and bespoke research/insights (e.g., Threat Monitoring, Bespoke Insights, Public Communications, Workforce Preparedness) sold to governments and enterprises.
5. Managed Services & Online Safety Programs: End-to-end managed services for online safety, public communications, workforce preparedness, and large-scale disinformation resilience campaigns (e.g., 120M+ Europeans reached with Google/Jigsaw prebunking initiative).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Moonshot is a London-based data analytics company that designs proprietary technology to identify and mitigate online harms. It sells an integrated online harms mitigation platform centered on its flagship Online Violence Prevention Model, alongside a managed Threat Protection service, subscription intelligence briefings, bespoke research engagements, and resilience-building programs for governments, sports organizations, major platforms, and high-profile individuals.

Product overview

Moonshot CVE Limited operates an integrated online harms mitigation platform rather than a single monolithic product, with a flagship Online Violence Prevention Model at the core surrounded by modular intelligence, threat protection, and resilience-building offerings. The platform combines an ongoing Threat Protection managed service (deploying proprietary technology across 50+ platforms for high-profile individuals and organizations), a subscription-based Threat Bulletin (weekly intelligence briefings on U.S. targeted violence), bespoke threat monitoring and bespoke insights engagements, Online Safety public communications and workforce preparedness training, and dedicated programmes such as Team USA Safe Online for the USOPC and WNBA Chicago Sky player protection. All offerings draw on the same underlying capability stack — the world's largest database of extremist and terrorist indicators (10+ million keywords across 16 languages) and machine-learning risk assessment models trained with clinicians and social workers — and feed into the same operational loop of threat detection, risk scoring, intervention, and ethical safeguard.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Threat Protection Ongoing managed service delivering specialized online threat protection to executives, talent, venues and assets. Uses proprietary technology originally built for national security to surface threats of violence, doxxing, and coordinated harassment across 50+ fringe and mainstream platforms, with end-to-end capabilities including detection, threat assessment, human context analysis, reporting, removal, and mitigation.
• Threat Bulletin Subscription-based weekly intelligence briefing delivering qualitative and quantitative analysis of U.S.-based Targeted Violence discourse online. Distributed every Thursday and covers trends, themes, and narratives across 30+ platforms, with direct hyperlinks to primary sources, expert analyst interpretation, and online-to-offline risk assessment.
• Online Violence Prevention Model Proven intervention model that builds local networks of service providers, equips them with resources and tools to safely intervene, enhances knowledge of the risk environment, digitizes violence prevention services, and reaches concerned bystanders and people considering violence with lifesaving services. Operates in the United States (24/7 Crisis Text Line helpline, New York State model), Canada (five provinces with Public Safety Canada), and New Zealand.
• Online Safety / Public Communications Large-scale campaigns and training programs to improve societal awareness of online abuse and violence, and to build skills to protect against online manipulation. Runs the largest global initiatives to educate the public about commonly used online manipulation tactics, including disinformation, scams, and extortion.
• Workforce Preparedness Training and capacity-building service for organizations to prepare workforces to recognize and respond to online manipulation, disinformation, and targeted threats.
• Bespoke Insights Custom research and analytical engagements for governments and institutions requiring intelligence and situational awareness of online risk and criminal activity for investigations.
• Threat Monitoring Continuous threat monitoring service providing regular insights on the online threat landscape, distinct from the Threat Bulletin's weekly cadence and from the Threat Protection managed service.
• Team USA Safe Online Co-branded platform developed in collaboration with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to help athletes protect their privacy, security and well-being in the digital space, identifying threats and enabling protective action online.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,920,826 offers of support delivered to Canadians consuming extremist/terrorist content in the two-year nationwide online violence prevention program
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered advisory/oversight appointment, strategic international policy partner, strategic flagship partner, strategic go-to-market partner (sports vertical), major government program partner, core implementation partner (us) and major platform partner.

• An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Irish Electoral Commission)advisory/oversight appointmentOthers · 1 January 2026Ross Frenett appointed as a member of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland's independent electoral commission.
• G7 (under Canadian Presidency)strategic international policy partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Founder & CEO Vidhya Ramalingam invited as Guest of Honour at the G7 Interior and Security Ministers' Meeting Working Dinner in Ottawa (Nov 21–23, 2025) to advocate adoption of online violence prevention as essential national security infrastructure across G7 nations.
• United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC)strategic flagship partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Moonshot and the USOPC launched Team USA Safe Online, a platform to help athletes stay safe, identify threats, and take action to protect themselves online.
• WNBA Chicago Skystrategic flagship partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025First-of-its-kind partnership in women's professional sports using Moonshot's national-security-grade technology to protect the team's full roster of players and coaches from online threats and abuse.
• CTH Advisorsstrategic go-to-market partner (sports vertical)GTM or Marketing Partner · 1 July 2025Moonshot and CTH Advisors (investment banking and advisory firm specializing in sports, media and entertainment) announced a strategic partnership to combat the rising digital threats in the sports industry.
• Spotifystrategic flagship partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2024Moonshot has joined Spotify's Safety Advisory Council, expanding a three-year partnership. Joint initiatives aim to create safer platform experiences, counter organized crime, and remove ecosystems of artists spreading illegal content.
• Googlestrategic flagship partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2024Moonshot and Google are collaborating on a large-scale initiative in Ukraine to build resilience to prevalent online manipulation techniques, and previously partnered with Jigsaw on Europe's largest prebunking initiative during the 2024 European Parliamentary elections (120M+ Europeans reached).
• New York Statemajor government program partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerState-wide Online Violence Prevention Model delivered in partnership with New York State and violence prevention organizations across the state.
• Public Safety Canadamajor government program partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-year nationwide Online Violence Prevention Model delivered in five Canadian provinces with support from Public Safety Canada.
• New Zealand Governmentmajor government program partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerBuilding New Zealand's first nationwide Online Violence Prevention Model in partnership with specialist family violence organisations across the country.
• Crisis Text Linecore implementation partner (us)Implementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerOperates a 24/7 text helpline set up in partnership with Crisis Text Line to support people considering violence in the United States; over 200 crisis counselling sessions delivered.
• Metamajor platform partnerTechnology or IntegrationMeta is among Moonshot's listed partner institutions serving critical institutions across government, technology, and other industries.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ActiveFence: ActiveFence is a trust & safety platform that combines AI and human analysts to detect harmful content, child safety risks, fraud and disinformation across platforms. It is the closest direct competitor to Moonshot's Threat Protection and online-harms offering, serving similar platform and enterprise buyers with a more software-led delivery model.
• Logically: Logically provides AI-augmented intelligence products to detect disinformation, foreign information manipulation, and online harms for governments, platforms and enterprises. It directly competes with Moonshot's Threat Bulletin, Bespoke Insights and disinformation-resilience services, particularly with Western government and platform buyers.
• Graphika: Graphika (now part of Dataverse) maps online communities, influence operations and extremist networks using social-network analysis. It is directly comparable to Moonshot's risk-assessment and extremist-detection capabilities, selling similar intelligence products to US/UK government agencies and platforms.
• ZeroFox: ZeroFox provides external threat intelligence, digital risk protection and disruption services for executives, brands and platforms. It directly competes with Moonshot's Threat Protection service for enterprise executives, talent and high-profile individuals, with overlapping threat-monitoring and takedown capabilities.
• Crisp (now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions): Crisp provides real-time content-moderation, brand-protection and online-harm risk intelligence, including for child safety and extremism. It is directly comparable to Moonshot's threat-detection pipeline and serves similar platform and enterprise customers, but with a more platform/API-native delivery model.
• Babel Street: Babel Street offers social-media intelligence, OSINT and identity-analytics products used by US defense, intelligence and law-enforcement customers. It is closely comparable to Moonshot's government-facing Threat Protection and Bespoke Insights work, particularly for US federal agencies like DHS and DoD.
• Two Hat Security (NetEase Games): Two Hat provides AI-driven content moderation and user-safety classification for social platforms, games and online communities. It is comparable to Moonshot's threat-detection pipeline for platforms, but with a more productized, classification-as-a-service model and gaming-vertical focus.

Broad incumbents

• Recorded Future (now part of Mastercard): Recorded Future is a large, established threat-intelligence platform serving governments and enterprises with broad cyber, geopolitical and online-risk data. It overlaps with Moonshot's Threat Bulletin and Bespoke Insights products but at much wider scope, competing primarily for security-analyst budget rather than violence-prevention programmes.
• Dataminr: Dataminr is an established real-time risk-detection platform that surfaces breaking events, cyber-physical threats and reputational risks from public data streams. It is comparable to Moonshot's Threat Monitoring and Threat Protection at the enterprise/security buyer level but is a much larger incumbent with a broader portfolio.
• Flashpoint: Flashpoint delivers threat intelligence across cybercrime, fraud, and physical security from illicit communities and deep/dark-web sources. It is comparable to Moonshot's threat-monitoring and extremism-detection capability but is a much larger incumbent focused on enterprise and government security teams.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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