Jackson Moses
Managing Partner at Silent Ventures
Dallas, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Silent Ventures is an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security companies. (@SilentVentures on Twitter) • Castelion (Series A) • UNION (Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Observer • Sandtable (Pre-Seed) - Lead Investor • Gallatin AI (Pre-Seed & Seed) • Impulse Space (Series B) • Fulcrum Autonomy (Pre-Seed) • Armada AI (Series A & Venture) • Hadrian (Series B) • Solestial (Venture) • Aeon (Pre-Seed & Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Member • Swarmbotics AI (Pre-Seed) • SV Build I - Defense Tech IoT (Founding Investor & Board Member) • Dirac (Pre-Seed & Seed) - Lead Investor • Saronic (Seed, Series A & B & C) • CHAOS (Series A & Series B) • Firestorm (Pre-Seed & Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Member • Haxion AI (Pre-Seed) Prior Investments: Anduril, Axiom Space, Voyager Space, Privateer, Pixxel, Orbit Fab, Morpheus Space, Swarm Aero, Firehawk, Cambium, and Galvanick. Learn More: www.silentvc.com
Investor
2021
(Series D) Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. It is shaping the future of defense, transforming U.S. & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril emphasizes speed, results, and control of its products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off-the-shelf. Anduril is rapidly growing, deploying technology in diverse locations, and developing generational products that will forever change national security. (@AndurilTech on Twitter) Also Backed By: Founders Fund, 8VC, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, a16z, Lux Capital, Thrive Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Altimeter, Fidelity, and BlackRock. Learn More: www.anduril.com
Investor
2023
(Seed, Series A & B & C, Fund) Saronic provides Western naval and maritime forces with the world’s most intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels at scale, with Port Alpha as its first manufacturing facility. (@Saronic on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, 8VC, General Catalyst, a16z, Lightspeed, Caffeinated Capital, Point72, and USIT. Learn More: www.saronic.com
Saronic designs and manufactures unmanned surface vehicles for maritime security and domain awareness.
Raised $245,000,000.00 from 8VC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Silent Ventures, Elad Gil, Caffeinated Capital and NightDragon.
Investor
2023
Sourced lead role for NEA (Series C). Secured $275M at $2B term sheet and investment from NEA on behalf of CEO. Did not invest in Series C. (Series A & Series B, Fund) CHAOS is a technology company building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, CHAOS provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The CHAOS agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with the defense industry ensure real-world applications. Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, NEA, Accel, 8VC, and Valor Equity. Learn More: www.chaosinc.com
Chaos Industries develops advanced technologies for defense and critical industries.
Raised $215,000,000.00 from Silent Ventures, Lerner Enterprises, Accel, Overmatch Ventures and 8VC.
Investor
2024
(Series B, Fund) Impulse is a Space 2.0 pioneer that provides agile, economical in-space payload delivery and hosting. Its mission is to accelerate humanity's future in space through efficient transportation anywhere - LEO, GEO, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. (@GoToImpulse on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, DCVC, 137 Ventures, Airbus Ventures, and RTX Ventures. Learn More: www.impulsespace.com
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
Raised $225,000,000.00 from Tamarack Global, Trousdale Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, Island Green, DCVC, First Principles, Elysium Venture Capital, 137 Ventures, Founders Fund and Airbus Ventures.
Investor
2024
(Series A & Venture, Fund) Armada AI is bridging the digital divide so that everyone the world over is free to connect, compute, and innovate at the edge. (@Armada_ai on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, 8VC, 137 Ventures, Felicis, Shield Capital, Valor Equity Partners, 8090, and Koch Industries. Learn More: www.armada.ai
Armada is an edge computing platform that links individuals and businesses, facilitating real-time data processing and decision-making.
Raised $108,000,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Felicis, Dragon Global and Valor Equity Partners.
Investor - First Check
2021
Sourced for Cubit Capital (Rees-Jones Family) and Stonecroft (Henry Kravis Family Office). (First Check & Series B, Fund) Hadrian builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help frontier technology companies - like SpaceX, Anduril, and Varda - make rockets, satellites, jets & eVTOLs 2x faster and cheaper. (@HadrianSpace on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Raytheon (NYSE: RTX), Founders Fund, Lux Capital, a16z, Construct Capital, and Caffeinated Capital. Learn More: www.hadrian.co
Hadrian is a machine parts startup that manufactures precision components for technology companies.
Raised $216,500,000.00 from Caffeinated Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Construct Capital, RTX Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, Lux Capital, Bracket Capital, WCM Investment Management, Cubit Capital and Silent Ventures.
Investor & Senior Advisor
2023
Helped secure Pre-Seed & early investment for founding team (Lavrock & BlueYard). Sourced for a16z (Seed). Sourced for Lightspeed (Series A). Senior Advisor to the Founding Team from ideation and inception through fundraising and go-to-market (prior to day zero investors). (Pre-Seed, Seed & Series A) Formerly known as Pallas, Castelion is a venture-backed defense tech company applying modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to critical national security challenges, specifically to solve for affordability, scale, and supply chain robustness. (@CastelionCorp on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Lightspeed, and a16z. Learn More: www.castelion.com
Castelion is a defense tech company that applies modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to national security challenges.
Raised $19,614,995.00 from Lavrock Ventures, Jackson Moses, BlueYard Capital, First In, Andreessen Horowitz and Champion Hill Ventures.
Investor
2021
(Series A) Voyager is a defense, national security, and space technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. By tackling the most complex challenges, Voyager aims to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets from ground to space. (@VoyagerTech_ on Twitter) Also Backed By: Palantir (Nasdaq: PLTR). Learn More: www.voyagertechnologies.com
Lead Investor & Board Observer
2025
(Seed, Fund) For nearly a century, energetics factories, munitions, and propellants have been stagnant, plagued by a lack of innovation and sophistication. Despite a total addressable market of nearly $6 trillion, this industry has been dominated by outdated technologies and entrenched legacy players who routinely fail to deliver. The U.S. energetics enterprise is now outmatched, outclassed, and outranged by its adversaries. America's ability to project power and favorably influence outcomes is crippled. The West is vulnerable. Our edge is gone. Enter: UNION. (@UNION_Prime on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures (co-led Seed), BVVC, Regulus, and Decisive Point. Learn More: https://union.tech