Builders Need Applied Support
Ambitious entrepreneurs move faster when experienced guidance is connected directly to the decisions, obstacles, and opportunities in front of them.
Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
Build What You’re Capable of Building.
You may already have the experience, ambition, skill, or idea. Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship gives you the mentorship, structure, strategic coaching, and practical support to turn that potential into something real.
1The opportunity
Exceptional entrepreneurs can come from anywhere.
There is no single path to becoming an entrepreneur. You may have spent years leading teams, developing specialized expertise, solving difficult problems, building independent projects, or perhaps you have a burning desire to start your own business but have never had the structure or support to pursue it. The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship was created for people with that kind of potential.
The Right Support Changes Trajectory
Experienced mentors, strategic coaching, accountability, and practical structure can help turn potential into disciplined execution and meaningful progress.
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship is built around a simple idea: high-potential entrepreneurs make better decisions and create momentum faster when they have experienced mentors, an accountable peer group, and a structure that turns intention into action.
Recognize your potential. Build your capabilities. Create momentum.
2The fellowship
A four-month program built around what you are actually trying to build.
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship is a selective, four-month program centered on personal mentorship and real-world execution. Your business, idea, opportunity, challenges, and decisions become the work.
4Month program
1. Personal Mentorship
Meet weekly one-on-one with accomplished entrepreneurs and operators who have built, scaled, and exited businesses. Bring the decisions you are facing, the problems you are working through, and the opportunities in front of you.
2. Cohort Collaboration
Work alongside other ambitious entrepreneurs in weekly sessions designed to solve real challenges, exchange perspectives, create accountability, and build relationships that extend beyond the Fellowship.
3. Applied Instruction
Learn what you need when you need it. Targeted instruction supports strategy, customer validation, finance, marketing, leadership, fundraising, and growth, always in service of what you are actively building.
How each week works
Your real work sets the agenda. Each week begins with three practical questions: What are you working on right now? What problem is standing in the way? What do you need to accomplish next? Your mentorship, cohort conversations, and instruction are then connected to your current stage, priorities, decisions, and real-world challenges.
Who the Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship serves
Different paths. Exceptional potential.
A resume tells only part of your story. The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship looks at experience, initiative, ideas, leadership, resilience, accomplishment, and ambition. Then it asks, “What could you build?”
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship is designed for accomplished and high-potential people whose paths may include years of professional experience, a skilled trade, sales, a family business, independent projects, specialized expertise, an existing venture, or simply a compelling idea without a clear roadmap for turning it into a company.
Potential Bring entrepreneurial ability, initiative, ideas, and ambition.
Mentorship Use experienced guidance to develop greater direction, confidence, judgment, and clarity.
Execution Validate ideas, understand customers, shape your offering, develop your business model, and move toward launch, traction, and growth.
Selection
No single resume defines potential.High standards do.
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship uses a holistic selection process designed to recognize entrepreneurial potential in many forms. Selection considers demonstrated accomplishment, initiative, leadership, resilience, ambition, an idea or opportunity worth pursuing, commitment, coachability, and an in-depth mentoring interview.
What you can take from the fellowship
- Clearer vision and strategy
- Stronger leadership and resilience
- More effective execution
- Access to mentors and capital
- A community for life
3Your four-month program
This is where potential becomes progress.
During the four-month program, you work on the business, idea, or opportunity that matters to you while receiving mentorship, peer perspective, instruction, and accountability to keep moving it forward. The objective is meaningful progress on something real.
Real work first
The Fellowship is built around the work you are actually doing. You are encouraged to make decisions, test assumptions, talk to customers, solve problems, refine your thinking, and keep moving forward.
How the experience unfolds
1. Bring Something Worth Building
Enter the Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship with something you want to pursue: a business, an idea, an opportunity, a skill you believe could become something larger, or an existing venture you are ready to take further.
- Initiative
- Commitment
- A real idea or opportunity
- Openness to coaching
- Readiness to execute
Four-month program
2. Build Through the Fellowship
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship program is built around the work you are actually doing.
- Weekly personal mentorship
- Peer cohort sessions
- Applied instruction
- Real-world execution
- Accountability
- Meaningful milestones
3. Measure Real Progress
Progress is not measured by how many lessons you complete. It is measured by what changes.
- What did you clarify?
- What did you decide?
- What did you test?
- What did you build?
- What did you launch or improve?
High-Touch Support
Mentorship stays personal, practical, and connected to the work directly in front of you.
Real-World Application
You apply what you learn while you are building, rather than waiting until the Fellowship ends.
Measurable Progress
Your decisions, experiments, milestones, and execution create tangible evidence of movement.
Built for What Comes Next
The capabilities, relationships, experience, and momentum you build are meant to continue long after the four-month program ends.
A focused four-month program. Real work. Better decisions. Meaningful momentum.
Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build extraordinary companies and meaningful lives.
Jon Brandt
Founder, Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
Founder, Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
4Our founder
Built by an operator who has scaled and exited multiple companies.
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship is led by Jon Brandt, whose career has spanned multiple industries and centered on building organizations, investing in growth, and creating the conditions for lasting enterprise value.
Founder spotlight
Jon Brandt
Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, private equity investor, mentor, and board leader
Jon Brandt has spent decades building, scaling, investing in, and exiting organizations across multiple industries, including education, healthcare, and behavioral health. Over the course of his career, he has led five successful exits and developed a track record of turning vision into durable growth.
His experience also includes venture capital and private equity, and he has served on numerous boards. Jon has also been a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at The Ohio State University, Fordham University, and New York University (NYU).
Through the Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship and his broader advisory and investing work, he helps founders sharpen strategy, position companies for scale, and build with long-term value in mind. He brings the perspective of an operator, investor, and mentor committed to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs move from potential to disciplined execution.
- 5successful company exits
- 3decades of leadership across multiple industries, including education, healthcare, and behavioral health
- Nowfocused on investing, advising, mentoring, and building the Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
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