Momenta 2025 in Review
Thirteen Years of Consistent Execution
In 2025, Momenta advanced new investments, portfolio growth, exits, and steady progress across industrial technology. Thirteen years in, the lesson remains unchanged: lasting industrial impact comes from disciplined, consistent execution, not short bursts of momentum.
Rather than a snapshot of a single year, this review reflects a longer arc. It looks at how consistent execution, early co-creation with industrial partners, and hands-on operator involvement translate ambition into systems that run in real operating environments. It examines what moved forward in 2025, where progress required patience, and why durable industrial impact is built through repetition, discipline, and time.
External recognition, including PitchBook's global Top 10 Manager Performance ranking, reinforces what LPs, founders, and operators experience firsthand: early engagement, deep industrial expertise, and hands-on operator support turn complex technologies into tangible outcomes.
The Work Behind the Numbers
Across our Venture practice and Digital Industry Funds, we invest early and stay involved. We back teams at the most challenging phase of industrial innovation: turning pilots into repeatable, revenue-generating deployments.
Capital alone does not drive adoption: Operator-led support and co-creation with customers and LPs expose integration friction early, shorten learning cycles, and tighten the path from technical validation to production deployment.
This discipline does not slow progress. It accelerates it once systems, ownership, and incentives are in place.
Co-Creation: The Trajectory to Success
Industrial progress unfolds over years, not quarters. Early co-creation with industrial partners changes the slope of that journey by moving learning into real operating environments sooner.
At Momenta, co-creation is not an add-on; it is how we invest. From the first pilots, we work alongside founders and industrial partners to shape deployments, shorten feedback loops, and move technology into production.
Overview.ai followed this path through early co-creation with Advantech. Overview launched an edge AI vision inspection system combining Advantech’s industrial PC cameras with Overview’s deep-learning software, enabling automated quality inspection directly on production lines. The joint solution is consistently presented as a scalable, production-ready Vision AI offering within Advantech’s edge AI ecosystem.
Edge Impulse began industrial pilots with Advantech shortly after its founding, using early operational feedback to accelerate learning and execution. This co-created trajectory led to its acquisition by Qualcomm within six years.
DataHow is advancing along a similar path, piloting causal AI with Rockwell Automation in live industrial environments focused on learning, performance, and operational fit
Luffy AI is also progressing through co-creation, embedding adaptive AI into industrial control systems with early integrations focused on real-world validation, safety readiness, and system-level performance.
This is where Momenta differs from traditional venture capital: co-creation with industrial partners is not a phase. It is the operating model.
Portfolio Performance
Results You Can Measure
In 2025, portfolio progress showed up in three areas.
Enterprise Adoption and Scale
Companies moved from pilots into live operations, delivering measurable cost, efficiency, and emissions improvements across real industrial environments.
- SMARTEX.AI partnered with ITA Group to reduce textile waste at scale
- Axiom Cloud delivered $158K in savings and reduced CO₂ by 295 tons across 100 stores.
- WasteHero launched NewWays™ and ranked among Denmark’s fastest-growing startups.
Teams moved from experimental AI to hardened platforms, strengthening security, deepening integration, and preparing for enterprise scale.
- Litmus delivered next-generation edge AI with GPU-accelerated on-prem LLMs
- Xage Security launched Zero Trust for AI with NVIDIA BlueField
- HighByte achieved ISO 27001 and expanded cloud and AI integrations
Customer growth, strategic investment, and recognition from respected industry organizations validated execution at scale.
- AMESA was named a Gartner Cool Vendor
- HighByte ranked in the Top 5% of the 2025 Inc. 5000
- InSkill won the Frost & Sullivan 2025 award and launched its Gen-3 agentic AI engine
Together, these signals reflect sustained execution rather than isolated wins.
What We Learned in 2025
Five lessons defined the year and reaffirmed convictions we have held for more than a decade:
- Pilots do not prove value. Progress starts when technology operates under real-world conditions, not in controlled pilots.
- Co-creation accelerates learning. Early work with LPs and customers surfaces integration friction sooner and shortens the path from pilot to deployment.
- Integration beats features. Adoption depends on fit with existing stacks and workflows, not feature lists.
- Staying involved changes outcomes. Early capital paired with hands-on operator support improves the trajectory from concept to production.
- Industrial timelines reward patience. Durable outcomes compound over years, not quarters.
These lessons shaped 2025 and will guide how Momenta invests, co-creates, and scales with founders and industrial partners in 2026 and beyond.
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