Invests in
Sectors:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$750,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Jackson
Investments
Firestorm
Total Funding: $13M
Rivet
Total Funding: $33M
Hadrian
Total Funding: $200M
Armada
Total Funding: $60M
Aeon
Total Funding: $5M
Pilgrim
Total Funding: $15M
Swarmbotics AI
Total Funding:
Solestial
Total Funding: $11M
Dirac
Total Funding:
Saronic
Total Funding: $250M
Work Experience
2022
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) • Base Power (Series C) • 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
2025
Lead Investor & Board Member - First Check
2025
(Pre-Seed, Fund) Kinetics (sourced for three funds).
2021
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
2023
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
2023
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
2023
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
2025
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, Bond, a16z, Spark, Trust Ventures, Lowercarbon, CapitalG, and Lightspeed. Learn More: www.basepowercompany.com
2021
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
2024
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
2024
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