Momenta Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Lucerne, Switzerland

Total investments

74

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

6.17

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer VisionComputerHardwareInternet of ThingsIndustrial Automation

Summary

In 2012 was created Momenta Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Engelberg. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Momenta Ventures, startups are often financed by Orfin Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Mercury Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Underscore VC, Tekfen Ventures, StarVC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Breed Reply, Wavemaker Partners.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Momenta Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

This organization was formed by Ken Forster. We also calculated 23 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Industrial Automation. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sight Machine, Soofa, Thingstream.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyManufacturingLogisticsDeep Tech
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 39 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
74
Lead investments
18
Exits
6
Rounds per year
6.17
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (30)
  • Internet of Things (23)
  • Artificial Intelligence (20)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Machine Learning (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (46)
  • Canada (4)
  • Switzerland (12)
  • Australia (1)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
3.28

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DataHow 28 May 2024 Early Stage Venture Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich
Smartex 03 Nov 2022 Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Hardware, Internet of Things, Textiles, Industrial Automation Early Stage Venture 24M United States, California, San Francisco
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