Launching Your Innovations

We partner with international scientific, technology-driven, and engineering organizations to further support growth via tailored hands-on management services and venture-building activities. We nurture a no-nonsense attitude with a strong focus on action.

Services
Venture Building
Venture Building
Build your next venture from idea generation and concept validation to venture setup, launching, and scaling up.
Management Services
Management Services
Grow your existing organization further with additional top and bottom-line management support.
Singapore & Belgium
Singapore & Belgium
We support our clients in Singapore and Belgium, key business gateways to APAC and Europe.
Bringing you 20+ years of experience
Combining corporate and entrepreneurial practices
Bringing you 20+ years
of experience

Vertical Velocity Ventures was founded by Christophe Semaille after 20+ years of career within international corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic environments in a wide variety of roles from engineering, project and program management, sales, and business development to top-level executive committee management positions.

This experience has allowed Christophe to develop a unique set of skills combining the structural and process-driven approach from the corporate world with the agility and speed of the entrepreneurial world needed to manage and grow innovative technology-driven organizations.

A relevant track record

Christophe holds an MSc. in Mechatronics Engineering and an MSc. in Management from UCL in Belgium. He also participated in entrepreneurship and company buy-out courses from Solvay Business School and Vlerick Business School. As relevant track record, the founder has:

01
Lead many aerospace electronics product development projects (small 250KEUR to larger 5MEUR project budgets) as Project & Program Manager for the European Space Agency (client) within international consortia
02
Explored market diversification paths in the services industry for an aerospace company active in small satellites and space instruments manufacturing with a first succesful proposal win in the energy market
03
Started a new engineering consulting business unit from scratch for an international technology consulting group reaching 10 FTE after one year in the aircraft engineering & maintenance sector
04
Launched a 10MEUR/annum subsidiary of a large aerospace corporation within a new geographical region supervising programmatic & commercial operations including EN9100 external yearly certifications
05
Restructured the research projects organization (50FTE) of a world-famous research institute in fluid dynamics as part of the Executive Committee
06
Co-Founded two new ventures within the craft brewing services and technology markets inluding business model definition, legal setup, recruitement, operations follow-up, financial follow-up
07
Created Vertical Velocity Ventures in Singapore mid-2022!
We align technology and management teams with real market trends
Christophe
Semaille, Founder
Managing
stakeholders

Technology and business teams are challenging to align and bring together. Vertical Velocity Ventures uses a unique combination of communication and leadership skills to build bridges between technical, managerial, and business teams to align stakeholders and deliver economically viable products and services responding to real market trends.

Access to
a network
of skilled professionals

Vertical Velocity Ventures has built and nurtured a strong and reliable professional network by working directly with top-notch technical experts, researchers, engineers, managers, professors, directors, entrepreneurs, recruiters, and advisors. We tap into to this network when needed for additional capacity and expertise during the various phases of our projects.

why Vertical Velocity Ventures?
Koen Puimege
CEO at Antwerp Space
“Christophe stands out from the crowd in combining engineering skills with commercial insights. In addition he’s a splendid communicator and a real teamplayer who takes full responsibility when asked to do so. Above all Christophe has the gift to create a great atmosphere to get the best out of people”.
Koen Puimege
CEO at Antwerp Space
Frank Eulitz
Professor at Von Karman Institute/Ex-Siemens VP
“Christophe is both a role model of a leader and a team companion, effective and efficient in driving new ventures, business transformation, and innovation in international, technology driven organizations”.
Frank Eulitz
Professor at Von Karman Institute/Ex-Siemens VP
Ronnie Nader
Chief Engineer at Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA)
“Christophe is the kind of person that makes a though job look easy and fun, easy going person, efficient, responsible, organized, persistent and coherent, qualities that allow him to raise the productivity by getting the best of every person in the team. I’ll work with him again anytime”.
Ronnie Nader
Chief Engineer at Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA)
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Still have questions?
01
What main management services does VVV propose?
Our core strength resides in portfolio, program, or project management of technology development projects where large teams of engineers need to be managed following scope, budget, planning, and risk requirements. We also support the implementation of project-based processes and internal organisation all the way up to certification to EN9100 standards.
02
Is VVV recruiting?
Depending on our incoming projects, we will need additional colleagues on board. Drop us a message if you want to be informed of any open career opportunities within VVV together with your ambitions and CV. We will reach out to you whenever a nice opportunity arises that fits your profile.
03
Will VVV expand to other regions?
For the moment we are focusing on Singapore and Belgium but our longer-term vision is indeed to be present in a larger number of locations across the globe. As such, feel free to contact us if you wish to explore services in a new region.
04
What financial compensation model does VVV propose for its services?
We propose traditional fee-based models to full equity-sharing agreements or a combination of both.
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?

Vertical Velocity Ventures PTE. LTD.

Tel: +65.8535.3492

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