Momenta Partners (Momenta)
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We are Industrial Impact Venture Capital + Growth. We see digital technologies redefining the boundaries of IT and OT, bringing about the virtualizing of traditional operating technology systems, and blurring the line between products, services and solutions. We believe this digital convergence requires an equally multi-faceted perspective and practice – which is why we designed Momenta. We accelerate entrepreneurs and leaders devoted to the digitization of energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and supply chains. Since 2012, our team of deep industry operators have made over 100 investments in entrepreneurs and helped scale over 150 industry leaders via our award-winning executive search and strategic advisory practices.
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APERIO Closes $9M Series A1 Round to Fund Growth
APERIO, a category leader in operational data quality, announced it has closed $9M in Series A1 funding. The round was led by Momenta, the Industrial Impact venture capital + growth firm, and joined by investors including Chevron Technology Ventures, NextEra Energy, National Grid Partners, Delek US, and Bazan Group. The funding will be used to further grow the team, invest in the product, and improve the customer experience.
APERIO’s solution is designed to solve a wide range of operational data quality issues and has drawn a range of investors. “Improving the scale and quality of data is critical to the reliability of unattended facilities. APERIO’s technology has the potential to help solve the data quality problem at scale,” said Jim Gable, Vice President, Innovation and President of Technology Ventures at Chevron. “This is the latest investment from our Core Fund VII, which focuses on high-growth startups and breakthrough technologies that have the potential to improve Chevron’s core oil and gas business performance as well as create new opportunities for growth. We welcome APERIO to the portfolio.”
This new funding follows the release of APERIO DataWise 2.0 earlier this year, which added advanced tools like comprehensive root cause analysis and event pattern recognition, and was designed to improve the user experience through intuitive workflows and issue prioritization. More to come as this funding will add additional features, aimed at helping APERIO scale to meet customer demand.
Momenta leads Series A investment round in SprayVision, revolutionizing industrial coating operations
Momenta, the leading Industrial Impact® venture capital firm, has led the Series A investment round in SprayVision, an Ostrava, Czechia-based leader in process control and simulation of paint coating operations. Momenta invested along with the participation of J&T Ventures. This strategic funding will accelerate the company’s global operations, creating an even greater industrial impact.
SprayVision’s intelligent coating solution enables dynamic process control and optimization of paint lines. Their innovation significantly reduces time, scrap, paint waste, and emissions. With a simulation prediction accuracy of over 98%, SprayVision empowers customers to accelerate the transition from automation to autonomous operations. The company’s solutions support customers from digitizing manual processes to enhancing automation environments where human-robot collaboration is integrated into fully autonomous operations.
Momenta leads Investment in Luffy AI, Adaptive AI for Industrial Optimization
Momenta, the leading Industrial Impact® venture capital firm, has announced its latest investment in Luffy AI, a Cambridge, UK-based leader in adaptive AI for industrial control. This strategic funding aims to advance industrial processes and enhance operational outcomes.
Luffy’s Adaptive Intelligence Framework, driven by neuroplasticity, offers unparalleled computational efficiency and supports edge deployments of optimized industrial control applications. This innovative technology enables control systems to continuously learn and adapt, making them more resilient and effective than traditional AI models. By integrating simpler digital twin models with self-optimizing neural networks, Luffy’s solution provides numerous benefits, such as reduced maintenance costs, improved explainability, and a heightened ability to manage uncertainty or unexpected events.
DataHow secures Series A investment for its AI bioprocessing Solutions
DataHow, a leader in AI-powered solutions for bioprocess development and manufacturing, has successfully closed its Series A investment round led by Momenta, the leading industrial impact venture capital firm. This investment, along with the participation from Rockwell Automation and Zürcher Kantonalbank, will allow the Zurich-based company to accelerate the deployment of its digital bioprocess development and manufacturing platform, DataHowLab.
An ETH spin-off founded in 2017 by a team of experienced researchers with industry experience, DataHow has pioneered the development of hybrid models for bioprocess development, implementing their innovative technologies with many of the biopharmaceutical industry’s largest players. Combining hard-coded process knowledge with data-driven AI algorithms, DataHow’s hybrid models provide process engineers with richer process insight when developing complex manufacturing processes while requiring less data.
Momenta Leads Investment in Composabl, Expanding Industrial AI and Autonomy
Momenta leads the seed round for Composabl, a trailblazer in industrial AI and autonomy, joined by Ridgeline Ventures, Exposition Capital, and Hannah Gray Ventures. Composabl’s unique approach empowers engineers to deploy real-time autonomous agents for manufacturing and logistics, supported by Momenta’s investment and industry endorsements.
Composabl’s unique approach to autonomous AI represents a step change in industrial process capabilities and will drive advancements and efficiency for manufacturing and logistics. Built for industrial process engineers, not data scientists, Composabl helps create real-time process optimization AI agents, driving toward autonomous operations. Momenta’s investment will provide Composabl with the resources and support needed to accelerate the growth of its platform and market presence.
This is the sixteenth company receiving investment from Momenta’s Digital Industry Fund III, anchored by Advantech, the world leader in digital industrial solutions. This is also the first company to receive investment from Momenta’s Digital Industry Fund IV, anchored by Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation.
Momenta leads Series A investment round for Agtonomy, joined by Doosan Bobcat North America and Toyota Ventures
Momenta, the leading Industrial Impact venture capital firm, announced today that they have led the Series A funding round for Agtonomy, a leading software and services company specializing in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agriculture. The $22.5m round was joined by strategic investors Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc. and Toyota Ventures.
Rockwell Automation Makes Strategic Investment in Momenta Fund
Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced its investment in Momenta’s Industry 5.0 Fund, a venture capital and value creation fund that supports entrepreneurs focused on resilient, sustainable, and human-centric industrial operations, providing Rockwell early access to innovative technology that has the potential to disrupt industrial markets and increase sustainability.
Switzerland-based Momenta launched the $100 million fund in cooperation with the EU Commission to support start-up companies working to advance the Commission’s Industry 5.0 initiative. The initiative highlights research and innovation as drivers for a transition to a sustainable, human-centric, and resilient industry, moving the focus from shareholder value to stakeholder value. It puts people at the center by empowering them with information and technology to make decisions with clarity and confidence. Aimed at early growth-stage innovators driving the digital transformation of energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and supply chains, the Industry 5.0 Fund will deliver venture capital investment and direct value-creation to entrepreneurs in Europe and North America.
♻️⚙️ Germany's Tvarit gets €5M to pave way for AI in sustainable metal manufacturing
Tvarit, a Frankfurt-based startup that’s on a journey to enable zero-waste manufacturing, has raised €5 million in the latest funding round led by Switzerland-based Momenta (also backed Smartex) and Futury Capital. Momenta leads the Series A round for Tvarit, an Industry 5.0 solution driving net-zero metal manufacturing”. The funding will help the German startup to accelerate zero-waste manufacturing through AI-powered, waste-free, and energy-efficient metal manufacturing.
Raven.ai Raises $12 Million USD and Completes Series A Financing
Raven, a leading provider of data contextualization software for frontline operations, announced today the successful completion of its Series A funding round, completing $12 million USD ($16M CAD) equity financing. The round was led by Momenta Ventures and Chartline Capital Partners with participation from Celtic House Venture Partners and Export Development Canada as well as continued support from prominent angel investors.
Raven is the only solution that combines and analyzes operator input and machine data to provide a clear timeline of all production states and losses — with context for everything that’s happening on the line, 100% of the time. Leading manufacturers in the Discrete, Life Sciences and Food and Beverage industries are using Raven’s solution to empower frontline, engineering and management teams to make confident, fact-driven productivity improvements on the shop floor. “Raven provides visibility we’d otherwise be guessing at,” said Justin Brennan, Director of Operational Excellence at Renaissance Lakewood.