Aerospace Valley Enterprises
Sales Management, Equity Capital Raising, & Grant Writing
Dr. Jeremy Woods is an expert in expanding sales operations and raising capital for start-up ventures as well as research grant writing. Dr. Woods has an extensive international contact network, including 3,000+ individuals and 500+ community and industry leaders across dozens of countries spanning every continent on the planet. He is fluent in German and Portuguese, conversant in Spanish, and has basic knowledge of French and Italian.
Over the course of his private sector work from 1995-2009, he helped generate $20+ million in revenue for innovation initiatives and startups in North America, South America, and Europe. Over the course of his academic career 2010, Dr. Woods has mentored over 2,000 students, helping a select group of them to find 66 full-time job placements and 26 part-time job placements for $1.5m in total earnings.
As Managing Director of the California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CEI) since 2022, Dr. Woods has also assisted nearly 50 ventures achieve $5.8m in revenues, $6.1m in equity investment, and $7m in grant funding. He has also been pivotal in bringing in $1.2m in private donor funding for the CSUB CEI and has been or is currently Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on nearly $2m in CSUB research grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other funding sources.
After leveraging his network and expertise to found and build the CSUB CEI, Dr. Woods is now expanding the impact of his revenue and capital investment generation activities for select clients in the California aerospace sector through his private consulting business, Aerospace Valley Enterprises.
Compensation Structure
Our engagement structure is as follows:
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Share your business plan, pitch deck, or grant application materials with us. If after reviewing your materials we feel we can help you, we will schedule a Zoom or face-to-face meeting with you to discuss our contract structure.
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Once you have signed a contract with us, we will spend one month reaching out to roughly 100 contacts and/or roughly 10 grant funding sources, both in and outside our network, to gauge demand for your products & services or your investment or grant funding opportunity. If we don't feel we can help you further after this outreach, we will provide you with a database containing detailed notes and contact information for all of the individuals, companies, and grant funding sources we reached out to on your behalf for a one-time fee of $750.
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If after our initial month of outreach we feel we can help you further, we will dedicate one of our staff to supporting your project in exchange for a monthly retainer of $1,500, recoupable against a success fee of 5-20% depending on deal size. The retainer is cancellable at any time with 30 days notice, at which time we will provide you with a database containing detailed notes and contact information for all of the individuals, companies we reached out to on your behalf, as well as all grant application materials we prepared for you.
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Our 2026 capacity for sales and equity capital deal sizes ranges from $100k in revenues or capital investment at a 20% commission rate to $2m in revenues or capital investment at a 5% commission rate. Our 2026 capacity for grant funding applications ranges from $100k to $10m in grant proposal sizes. Smaller or larger deals are also possible on a case-by-case basis.
Pilot Clients
We are currently evaluating 20+ startup sales & capital raising projects and 10+ R&D grant opportunities from the East Kern aerospace sector, and we hope to select up to 5 of them to move forward with as pilot clients for 2026.
