JM

Jackson Moses

Founder & Managing Partner @ Silent Ventures | A&D VC / OG | Founder @ Spectrum Labs (Acq'd) & MainStreet | Rare Whiskey Collector

Dallas, Texas

Skills

Deep Tech
Large Language Models (LLM)
Synthetic Data Generation
Data Science
Frontier Markets
U.S. Department of Defense
Military Logistics
Federal Government
Regulatory Affairs
Finance
National Security
Aerospace
Space Technology
Cybersecurity
Partnerships
Revenue
Go-to-Market Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Business Development

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2022

    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

2024

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

2021

  • 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

  • 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

2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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