Our mission is to find and support gritty, diverse founders tackling humanity’s biggest challenges.
Momentum Engine's investors believe uncommon returns and positive change will come from startups reimagining energy, transportation, housing, food, biology and community.
We invest our time, domain expertise, deep relationships, passion and capital in their vision and building the future economy, environment and society we want to live in.
Deep Domain Networks
Our syndicate deal leads are friends with top VCs, accelerators, founders, builders, domain experts and influencers in the key innovation hubs around the world. We leverage those relationships and tips from likeminded individuals who find diamonds in the rough that fit our mission.
Momentum Engine Leads
Co-founder of Color, where he built the bioinformatics pipeline and rest of the stack, bridging the gap between research, biology, and software. Nish then served as head of security, managing software infrastructure and compliance. A MIT labber and UC Berkeley grad in molecular cell biology, he advises companies at the intersection of biology and software. Previously he was a security engineer at Lookout and also now helps startups build more secure products.
Co-founder of wind energy SaaS platform Muir Data, board member of non-profit solar developer RE-volv, senior member of operations at Farallon Capital and MBA from the Presidio Graduate School in Sustainable Business.
15 year veteran of Silicon Valley, early responsive code developer and founder of several (non-Venture backed) companies. Worked with Square, TripAdvisor, Bonobos and other successful startups from seed stage branding to global expansion. Current Principal for Accenture’s emerging technology and startup partnership group. Angel investor in 20+ startups, focusing primarily on urban and environmental innovation.
Deal Syndication
Opportunities to invest will be syndicated based on deal allocation size and potential to accelerate technologies at their product and growth inflection point (generally seed to Series A).