The Defense Brief

Casting a light on the best defense founders to uncover what it takes to build the modern primes.

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  The Solo GP Behind the US Defense Boom — with Jackson Moses (Silent Ventures)

  Sep 9, 202651 minS0

  <p>Castelion, Saronic, Impulse Space, Hadrian, Firestorm Labs — Jackson Moses backed all of them, solo, out of Dallas, starting when defense wasn't investable. Fund two closed this year at $85M.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode: what he screens founders on. What the first Castelion meeting felt like, when three SpaceX veterans said they could build hypersonics and every VC said no. Why program of record is the only thing that matters in defense. And what Europe would have to do to get a check from him.</p>

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  Going all in on European defense — Alex Ferrara, Partner at Bessemer

  Jul 28, 202641 minS0

  <p>For twenty years, Alex Ferrara bet on the winners of the internet economy. At Bessemer, he led Shopify's Series A and backed companies like Pipedrive. Then, a little over a year ago, he published a piece announcing he was going all in on European defense.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we get into what he saw coming: why European resilience is a generational shift and not another hype cycle. Where Europe has a right to win, What Helsing's mega-round says about king-making in defense tech. Why he bet on Auterion and why he thinks The Exploration...

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  Robotization of the Battlefield with Roman Tkachenko - Founder of Tencore

  Jul 15, 202628 minS0

  <p>"We were dreamers from the very beginning — everyone told us it was a toy."</p><p><br /></p><p>Tencore is the leading UGV company in Ukraine. Their ground robots carry water, ammunition, and wounded soldiers across the most dangerous kilometers of the front line.</p><p><br /></p><p>I first met Ronan over a year ago, when Tencore was just starting. What struck me most in our conversation is how far the story has moved since.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ukraine now wants 100% of frontline logistics done by robots. Tencore just signed the biggest UGV order in...

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  The Electronic Warfare Arms Race behind Ukraine's drones — with Andriy Chulyk (Sine Engineering)

  Jun 30, 202620 minS0

  <p>“Ukraine will be a Silicon Valley for drones.”</p><p>Sine Engineering is powering the comms backbone of Ukraine’s drone war — keeping hundreds of thousands of drones flying when GPS is jammed and the enemy is hunting every signal.</p><p>Andriy Chulyk sat with me to discuss why electronic warfare (not firepower) is the real edge on the modern battlefield, how they’re scaling globally, and why they were just chosen as the first-ever investment of the US–Ukraine Reconstruction Fund.</p>

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  The $150 million fund fueling Israel's defense-tech surge - with Aaron Applbaum, GP at Kinetica

  Jun 16, 202636 minS0

  <p>"When global defense spend goes from two to three trillion, you don't get bigger militaries — you get a refresh of every platform."</p><p><br></p><p>Aaron Applbaum, co-founder of Kinetica, sat with me to talk about building a new Israeli defense fund at the exact moment that refresh begins — backing founders before they've even left the army, in partnership with 8VC.</p><p><br></p><p>We get into why October 2023 pulled Israel's best engineers back into uniform and changed what they wanted to build, and where Israel has a real right to win — from the algorithms behind...

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