About Swiss Aerospace Ventures
A lean venture builder for aerospace and dual-use founders
Swiss Aerospace Ventures helps technical founders turn aerospace innovations into more credible ventures, with stronger market judgment, sharper positioning, and a clearer path to customers, partners, and capital.
Why this business exists
Why SAV exists
Aerospace ventures do not fail for the same reasons as software startups.
The sales cycles are longer. Validation is harder. Buyers are fewer. Partnerships matter more. Regulation appears earlier. Fundraising usually takes more time and more discipline.
That means founders often need something different from generic startup advice.
Swiss Aerospace Ventures exists to help technical founders make better commercial decisions earlier, before weak market logic, vague positioning, or poor sequencing turn into expensive detours.
What the work actually looks like
What SAV actually does
SAV works with founders on the parts of venture building that are usually hardest to fake and most expensive to get wrong. The work is practical, selective, and tied to real decisions, not generic “innovation support.”
- ✓Market validation before overbuilding
- ✓Clearer buyer and stakeholder logic
- ✓Positioning that non-technical stakeholders can understand
- ✓First-customer and go-to-market priorities
- ✓Investor readiness grounded in evidence
- ✓Dual-use assessment where strategically relevant
Operating model
How SAV works
Swiss Aerospace Ventures is intentionally lean.
It does not try to look bigger than it is. It does not build a large permanent team to signal scale. It works directly, stays senior, and brings in specialist support only when that improves the result.
That model is better suited to early-stage aerospace work, where clarity, speed, and judgment matter more than theatre.
Depending on the situation, SAV can work through:
structured programmes
hands-on venture building
fundraising support
selective dual-use and defence pathway work
Founder
About Julian Walder
Swiss Aerospace Ventures is led by Julian Walder. Julian’s work sits at the intersection of venture building, commercialization, positioning, and founder support. His strength is helping technical teams translate complexity into a clearer company story, a stronger market path, and better execution priorities. That perspective is useful because early-stage ventures rarely fail only on technology. They also fail on customer logic, timing, communication, and decision quality. SAV brings that venture-building lens into aerospace, where the cost of getting the company logic wrong is usually much higher.
Julian Walder
Founder, Swiss Aerospace Ventures
Venture builder. Zürich-based. Focused on aerospace and dual-use founders.
The real bottlenecks
What founders usually need
Most founders do not need more generic advice. They need better answers to a small set of hard questions. SAV is built to help answer those questions with more discipline and less noise.
- ✓Who is the real buyer?
- ✓What is the strongest entry point?
- ✓What evidence is still missing?
- ✓What should the company stop doing?
- ✓Is the venture actually fundable as structured?
- ✓Is dual-use relevant, or just attractive on paper?
Clear boundaries
What SAV is not
SAV is not a generalist consultancy.
It is not a branding agency dressed up in aerospace language. It is not passive advisory that ends in a strategy deck and disappears.
The work is designed to be commercially relevant, founder-useful, and tied to the next meaningful decision.
Next step
If the problem is real, the first conversation should be useful
If you are building in aerospace or dual-use and need stronger market judgment, better positioning, or a more credible path to traction and capital, start with a direct conversation.
Start here
Book a strategy call
A direct conversation about your venture, where you are stuck, and what the right next step looks like.
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Validate
An 8-week programme to validate commercial assumptions before you scale the team, the spend, or the story.
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