Tech-active · Montreal, QC
Momentum Ventures
The Montreal holding company that builds and runs its own travel brands in-house.
- Cheque
- Not disclosed
- Role
- Can lead a round
- Pace
- Actively deploying
- Kind
- Tech-active
- Based in
- Montreal, QC
- Founded
- 2014
- Works in
- EN + FR
- Sectors
- Marketplaces and consumer
Their thesis, in full
Momentum Ventures is a Montreal travel holding company that grew out of a venture-studio model, not a fund: it co-founds, builds and operates its own travel-tech and marketplace companies in-house rather than writing investment cheques into outside startups. For founders, this means you do not pitch for a cheque; you join (often by invitation or through an entrepreneur-seeking program) to build a company alongside the studio, which supplies the capital, the back-office (legal, accounting, IT) and a playbook proven on FlightHub and justfly.com. The studio self-funds each venture from inception to exit and historically produces roughly one startup per year to concentrate its execution advantage. Equity is shared with operating founders via sweat equity, with more upside unlocked at milestones. Its focus is consumer travel marketplaces and adjacent execution-driven niches with a clear short-term path to profitability.
What they bring past the cheque
- Self-funded from inception to exit, so portfolio companies never have to chase external financing to keep building
- Deep operating playbook proven by scaling FlightHub into one of North America's largest online travel agencies
- Full in-house back-office (legal, accounting, IT) plus a network of experienced entrepreneurs
- Deliberately low volume (about one venture per year) to concentrate execution and product quality
- Founder-friendly equity via sweat equity and milestone-based upside, with the studio absorbing much of the early failure risk
Questions they usually ask
Have an answer ready for each one before the first call.
- Are you joining to build and operate a company in-house with us (studio model), or seeking external investment for your own startup (we do the former, not the latter)?
- Does your idea sit in an underexplored consumer or travel marketplace niche with a credible short-term path to profitability, the studio's go/no-go criterion?
- Are you an operator uniquely wired to grow a startup from zero, and willing to share equity via sweat equity with milestone-based upside?
Follow-on
Momentum Ventures backs operators it brings into the studio with internal capital from day one and removes the fundraising burden by self-funding each venture from start to exit. It pairs that capital with hands-on back-office support (legal, accounting, IT) and a network of seasoned travel and tech entrepreneurs, so founders can focus entirely on product and growth. The studio runs entrepreneur-seeking initiatives (such as its Million-Dollar challenge) and shares equity through sweat equity with additional stake unlocked at key milestones.
Portfolio
Names they back, most notable first.
- justfly.com2014
- FlightHub2012
- Flygreen
- CruiseHub
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