Jackson Moses
Managing Partner at Silent Ventures
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) • Saronic (Series B) • Armada AI (Series A) • Hadrian (Series B) • Solestial (Venture) • Aeon (Pre-Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Member • Swarmbotics AI (Pre-Seed) • SV Build I - Defense Tech IoT (Founding Investor & Board Member) • Dirac (Pre-Seed & Seed) • Saronic (Series A) • CHAOS (Series A) • 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
2024
(Series A, 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, and the Koch Brothers. 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
2023
(Series A, 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, 8VC, Tamarack, and Liquid 2. 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
2023
(Seed, Series A & Series B, Fund) Saronic provides Western naval and maritime forces with the world’s most intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels. (@Saronic on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, 8VC, a16z, Lightspeed Ventures (LSVP), 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
2021
Sourced for Cubit Capital (Series B). (www.cubit.capital) (Pre-Seed & 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
Sourced for Lavrock Ventures (Pre-Seed). Sourced for a16z (Seed). Senior Advisor to the Founding Team from ideation and inception through fundraising and go-to-market (prior to Day Zero investors). (Pre-Seed) 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: a16z & Lavrock Ventures. 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.
Lead Investor & Board Member
2023
(Pre-Seed, Fund) Aeon develops next-generation precision defense systems at scale to provide maximum overmatch for the United States and its allies. (@AeonIndustrial on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Quiet Capital, and MaC Ventures. Learn More: www.aeonindustrial.com
Investor
2023
(Pre-Seed, Fund) Ground swarm robotics (UGVs) for defense. (@SwarmboticsAI on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Quiet Capital, LMNT Ventures, and Soma Capital. Learn More: www.swarmbotics.ai
Ground swarm robotics for industry and defense.
Investor
2023
(Pre-Seed & Seed, Fund) Dirac leverages artificial intelligence (BuildOS) to quickly convert CAD files into mistake-free work instructions for expedited hardware assembly. (@DiracInc on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Founders Fund, and Coatue. Learn More: www.diracinc.com
Work instructions, automated.
Lead Investor & Board Member
2023
Sourced for Cubit Capital (Seed). (www.cubit.capital) (Pre-Seed & Seed, Fund) Firestorm is building the future of modular open-source architecture supporting Department of Defense requirements to create "Low-Cost, Affordable Mass." (@Firestorm_Labs on Twitter) Also Backed By: Silent Ventures, Lockheed Martin, Decisive Point, Marque Ventures, Cubit Capital & Overmatch. Learn More: www.launchfirestorm.com
Developing Low-Cost, Modular Unmanned Systems. Designed For Warfighters. Future-Proofed For Tomorrow.
Raised $40,519,500.00 from Bravo Victor Venture Capital, Overmatch Ventures, Backswing Ventures, IronGate Capital Advisors, Decisive Point, Feld Ventures, Red Cat, Cubit Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures and Beyond Capital.