Aero Ventures, recently announced the launch of the Aero Ventures Marketplace, a first-of-its-kind digital platform redefining how private jets are valued, bought, and sold.
Founded by Bill Papariella, Aero Ventures was created to deliver advisory services that uniquely combine operational experience, technology, and strategic capital.
This model goes beyond traditional brokerage to provide balance sheet optimization and a seamless ownership journey.
With more than $4 billion in transactions and 15 years of top-tier brokerage performance, Aero Ventures blends proven expertise with fintech-style speed and transparency. The Marketplace delivers, for the first time in one place:
- AI-powered instant valuations
- Verified aircraft histories
- Exclusive, off-market listings
- Capital-backed liquidity, with cash offers in as little as 48 hours
- Ownership cost simulations, informed by over one million flight hours of operating data
The platform brings long-overdue modernization to an industry historically dominated by opaque processes, manual dealmaking, and legacy brokers, replacing them with transparency, speed, and deep advisory intelligence.
The Marketplace also serves as the client-facing front end of Aero Ventures’ exclusive brokerage division, which focuses on transactions above $10M and admits clients through a selective vetting process. Each digital interaction is reinforced by world-class advisory and execution strength.
In a significant industry development, Aero Ventures announced that Sergey Petrossov joined as Managing Partner.
Petrossov, most recently chief Growth & Digital Officer of Vista Global and President of XO after JetSmarter, the company Sergey founded, was acquired by Vista in 2019, brings a track record of pioneering digital aviation platforms.
This comes on the heels of Jonah Adler joining Aero Ventures as Chief Commercial Officer & Partner, who most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer of Jet Edge International prior to its 2022 acquisition by Vista, adds expertise in building and monetizing one of the world’s largest operators.
Together, they reinforce Aero Ventures’ position as the industry’s most experienced and forward-thinking advisory platform.
“Aero Ventures was built to deliver advisory that goes beyond the transaction — uniting deep operational expertise, strategic capital, and leading-edge technology in a seamless platform that optimizes balance sheets and transforms the private jet ownership experience. I’m excited to be launching this industry-first digital platform alongside our new partners,” said Bill Papariella, founder & CEO.
“We digitized private aviation with JetSmarter and scaled it further with XO. Now, with Aero Ventures, we’re doing the same for aircraft ownership, making trading transparent, fast, and exciting,” added Sergey Petrossov, managing partner.
Positioned as the aviation world’s equivalent of Zillow, Edmunds, Carfax, and Carvana combined, the Aero Ventures Marketplace is poised to become the new standard for private jet transactions,marrying deep industry expertise with Silicon Valley-style innovation.
Beyond buying and selling, the Marketplace is designed to give aircraft owners and buyers a smarter, faster way to move in the market.
By connecting them directly to real-time data, exclusive listings, and quick access to capital, Aero Ventures makes it easier to know the right time to act and to do it with the confidence that comes from expert guidance and a trusted team behind every deal.
This combination of technology, market insight, and financial backing sets a new benchmark for how private jets are bought and sold, and signals a new era for the industry.
The Aero Ventures Marketplace went live September 3, 2025.
