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) • Stealth (Pre-Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Observer • Castelion (Series A & Series B) • UNION (Seed) - Lead Investor & Board Observer • Sandtable (Pre-Seed) - Lead Investor • Gallatin AI (Pre-Seed & Seed & Venture) • Impulse Space (Series B & Series C) • 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 Technologies (NYSE: VOYG), Privateer, Pixxel, Orbit Fab, Morpheus Space, Swarm Aero, Firehawk, Cambium, and Galvanick. Learn More: www.silentvc.com
Lead Investor & Board Member - First Check
2025
(Pre-Seed, Fund) Kinetics (sourced for three funds).
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 & Senior Advisor
2023
Secured Pre-Seed lead & early investment for founding team from 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 & B, Fund) 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, Altimeter, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Valor, 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
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. 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
2025
(Series B & C, Fund) Base is the modern power company for the electric era. They are building a reliable and affordable home energy service — powered by distributed batteries. Base's technology supports the grid during times of peak need and protects customers during outages — for a fraction of the cost of other solutions. (@BasePowerCo on Twitter) Also Backed By: Thrive Capital, Altimeter, Addition, Valor, a16z, Trust Ventures, CapitalG, and Lightspeed. Learn More: www.basepowercompany.com
Investor - First Check
2021
Sourced Series B 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, Altimeter, 137 Ventures, Construct Capital, and Caffeinated Capital. Learn More: www.hadrian.co
Investor
2024
(Series B & Series C, 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
Sourced for SV Angel (Series A). (www.svangel.com) (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, Valor, Felicis, Shield Capital, 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.