Beckett Jackson

Partner at AE Industrial Partners

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 8 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jan 2025
Singularity is the only defense company purpose built and prepared to deploy counter-weapons at the scale, speed, and cost required by the people who need them. We relentlessly iterate, and every system we ship is fully developed and produced in-house. We are not a normal defense company: our only measure of success is civilians protected and warfighters brought home to their families.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Salient Motion designs and manufactures modular motion control and actuation components for aerospace and defense industries.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
BridgeComm is taking its proven point-to-point free space optical wireless communications solutions further with the next evolution of connectivity – highly-mobile, rapidly-deployable point-to-multipoint broadcast optical wireless communications.  Our optical communications architecture is designed to enhance global connectivity for governments, enterprises, telecom providers, and the new space economy – enabling humans and machines to connect with unlimited flexibility wherever data resides. Twitter: @bridgecomminc
Board Observer
Nov 2019
Skylo Technologies is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphones and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylos commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution between terrestrial and satellite networks. Skylos focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows for machines at work across critical industries such as agriculture, maritime, logistics, mining, and others, in addition to mass-market consumer devices. We’re a global, fast-growing team, with offices in California, India and Finland. For more information, visit www.skylo.tech.
Board Member
Oct 2019
Immfly is transforming the cabin space. We provide Connected Digital Services: Retail, Flight Deck, Crew Applications, Connectivity Services and Inflight Entertainment. Headquartered in Barcelona and with a network of global offices, our team of +140 talented people empower and support full service, low cost, and regional airlines worldwide. Our services currently reach +2000 planes per month across hundreds of destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America.
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Electric Power Systems (EPS) is the emerging leader of high-power scalable powertrains that are certifiable for electrified aviation. It develops energy storage systems, DC fast-charging stations, battery management systems for aircraft and electric propulsion products for the Aerospace industry. EPS has numerous battery systems currently powering customer flight demonstrator vehicles (e.g., Boeing, Diamond, Ampaire, MagniX, NASA, Bell, Embraer, Volt Aero, Aura Aero, Supernal, SkyDrive). Advanced features produce safer battery systems resulting in a perfect safety record in the field. Boeing and Safran invested in EPS in 2019 and JetBlue Technology Venture in 2022, to enhance its research and development, energy storage, and electric propulsion capabilities.
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Singularity is the only defense company purpose built and prepared to deploy counter-weapons at the scale, speed, and cost required by the people who need them. We relentlessly iterate, and every system we ship is fully developed and produced in-house. We are not a normal defense company: our only measure of success is civilians protected and warfighters brought home to their families.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Solestial exists to deliver abundant energy in space. Our core product is a flexible solar power module. Each module is comprised of our breakthrough technology, a silicon solar cell engineered for space to self-cure radiation damage under sunlight at temperatures as low as 65°C. Our flexible solar power modules are ultrathin, low mass, and radiation hardened. Affordability and scalability are the key differentiators of Solestial modules. Our components are more affordable to source than III-V multijunction solar panel components and can be quickly manufactured on automated machines. Terrestrial silicon solar panels are affordable but degrade rapidly in space due to radiation and other factors. Solestial flexible solar power modules anneal radiation damage at normal operating temperatures allowing them withstand up to 10 years in a variety of destinations in space. Solestial’s innovative solar products provide customers with the best combination of radiation hardness, performance, and cost, at virtually unlimited scale. Our innovative technology represents a paradigm shift for space solar; an affordable, durable, scalable solution to power development in space. Solestial is a US company manufacturing in Tempe, Arizona.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Salient Motion designs and manufactures modular motion control and actuation components for aerospace and defense industries.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Avathon, a leader in Industrial AI, extends the life of critical infrastructure while advancing the journey toward full autonomy. Avathon’s Industrial AI platform empowers commercial and government customers with scalable, secure, and value-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and resilience across heavy industry.
2021
Principal
Aug 2021
AEI HorizonX is the venture capital platform of AE Industrial Partners, a private investment firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, with more than $5 billion of assets under management. Spun out of Boeing in 2017, HorizonX invests in leading startups across aerospace and defense, combining deep industry knowledge, operating experience, and network of relationships to help companies accelerate growth.
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