Talent Is Everywhere
Entrepreneurial ability can emerge through work, leadership, independent projects, specialized expertise, and lived experience.
Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
Building the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
A selective, mentorship-driven fellowship for high-potential entrepreneurs—designed to turn ideas, skills, and opportunities into clear strategy, practical execution, and meaningful impact.
1The opportunity
Exceptional entrepreneurs can come from anywhere.
Entrepreneurial potential is not defined by a single resume, job title, or life path. It can show up in the person who has led teams, mastered a trade, built expertise, solved hard problems, grown a family business, developed a distinctive skill, or carried an idea they have never had the structure to pursue. Momentus is designed to recognize that potential—and help turn it into action.
Experience Reveals Readiness
Initiative, resilience, judgment, leadership, and demonstrated accomplishment can reveal who is ready to build.
Builders Need Applied Support
Ambitious people move faster when guidance is connected directly to the decisions, obstacles, and opportunities in front of them.
The Right Support Changes Trajectory
Experienced mentors, trusted peers, accountability, and practical structure can turn raw potential into disciplined execution.
Momentus 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.
Identify potential. Build capability. Create momentum.
2The fellowship
A mentorship-driven pathway for entrepreneur development.
The Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship is a selective, four-month intensive experience built around personal mentorship and real-world execution. Cohort collaboration and practical instruction support each Fellow as they turn an idea, skill, or opportunity into a business with clarity and confidence.
4Month intensive
1. Personal Mentorship
Weekly 1:1 sessions with accomplished entrepreneurs and operators who have built, scaled, and exited businesses.
2. Cohort Collaboration
Weekly sessions with peers to solve real challenges, exchange perspective, create accountability, and build lasting relationships.
3. Applied Instruction
Targeted modules support execution: strategy, customer validation, finance, marketing, leadership, fundraising, and growth—delivered in service of what each Fellow is actively building.
How each week works
The Fellow’s 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? Mentorship, cohort input, and instruction are then tailored to the Fellow’s current stage, priorities, and real-world challenges.
Who Momentus serves
Different paths. Exceptional potential.
A resume tells only part of a person’s story. Momentus also looks at experience, initiative, ideas, leadership, resilience—and asks, “What could you build?”
Momentus is designed for accomplished and high-potential people whose paths may include years of work, a skilled trade, sales, a family business, independent projects, specialized expertise, or simply a compelling idea with no clear roadmap for turning it into a company.
Potential Identify entrepreneurial ability, ideas, initiative, and ambition.
Mentorship Turn raw potential into direction, confidence, and better decisions.
Execution Validate ideas, define customers, shape an offering, build a model, and move toward launch and growth.
Selection
No single resume defines potential.High standards required.
Momentus uses a holistic selection process designed to recognize entrepreneurial potential in many forms. Acceptance considers demonstrated accomplishment, initiative, leadership, resilience, ambition, an idea or opportunity worth pursuing, commitment, coachability, and an in-depth mentoring interview.
Outcomes
- Clearer vision and strategy
- Stronger leadership and resilience
- More effective execution
- Access to mentors and capital
- A community for life
3The pilot program
Start focused. Prove the model. Build from there.
A Momentus pilot begins with a deliberately focused cohort, a clearly defined four-month experience, and a commitment to learning from real participant outcomes. The goal is not to start big. It is to start well.
Pilot first
A focused first cohort creates a practical way to launch the fellowship, learn what produces the greatest value, gather meaningful feedback, and refine the model before expanding.
A simple pilot framework
1. Select the Cohort
Identify a small group of high-potential entrepreneurs who demonstrate initiative, coachability, ambition, and something meaningful they want to build.
- High-potential participants
- Strong commitment
- Real ideas or opportunities
- Readiness to execute
Four months
2. Deliver the Experience
Run the full Momentus model around the work participants are actually doing.
- Weekly personal mentorship
- Peer cohort sessions
- Applied instruction
- Execution milestones
3. Measure & Refine
Track progress, capture participant feedback, identify where the model creates the greatest lift, and use those lessons to strengthen the next cohort.
- Execution progress
- Decision quality & clarity
- Business milestones
- Participant feedback
Focused Launch
Begin with a manageable cohort and a clearly defined experience.
High-Touch Support
Keep mentorship personal, practical, and connected to the work.
Measurable Progress
Track what participants build, decide, test, launch, and improve.
Designed to Scale
Use evidence from the pilot to strengthen and expand future cohorts.
Begin with one cohort. Learn what works. Build the next chapter from evidence and outcomes.
Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build extraordinary companies and meaningful lives.
Jon Brandt
Founder, Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
Founder, Momentus Entrepreneur Fellowship
4The founder
Built by an operator who has scaled—and exited—multiple companies.
Momentus is led by Jon Brandt, whose career has centered on building organizations, helping them grow, and creating the conditions for lasting enterprise value.
Founder spotlight
Jon Brandt
Entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and board leader
Jon Brandt has spent decades building, scaling, and exiting organizations across 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.
Through Momentus 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 education, healthcare, and behavioral health
- Nowfocused on investing, advising, mentoring, and building Momentus
5Start a conversation
Interested in launching a Momentus pilot?
Tell us a little about what you are exploring. This is the starting point for a conversation about who a pilot could serve, what the first cohort might look like, and how to move from idea to launch.
Start a Pilot Conversation
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