# Momentous — Full Context

> Momentous is a European pre-seed venture capital fund, based in London, United Kingdom, investing in the Human Potential Stack: performance, wellness, and longevity, underpinned by applied AI. Founding Partner: Justin Seghers. Website: https://momentous.vc

## Who we are

Momentous is an early-stage venture capital fund backing extraordinary founders building the infrastructure of human potential. We invest at pre-seed — the first institutional cheque — and occasionally at seed. We are Europe-first, with a UK and EU focus and opportunistic exposure to US companies.

The fund is intentionally small, sharp, and specialised. There are no investment committees to convince and no consensus to wait for. That structure lets us move quickly, take genuine pre-seed risk, and stay deeply aligned with the teams we support.

## Our founding belief

Momentous was founded on a single belief: the technologies that elevate human capability will define the next century.

The convergence of healthspan science, consumer wellness, and sports innovation — underpinned by applied AI — is creating the conditions for humans to think sharper, perform better, and recover faster. We back the founders building that future.

Not committees. Individuals with unreasonable conviction. Extraordinary founders who see what others dismiss, who build before the market is ready, and who endure the long gap between vision and validation — before consensus, before proof, and long before the crowd arrives.

We partner with founders before the rest of the market understands the scale of what they're building. We're in it before the beginning. And we stay.

## The Human Potential Stack

The Human Potential Stack is Momentous' framework for the technologies that extend human capability. Three tightly connected layers — performance, wellness, and longevity — compound on each other: breakthroughs proven with elite athletes migrate outward through consumer wellness into everyday behaviour, and ultimately rebuild preventative healthcare from the ground up. Applied AI is the connective tissue running across all three layers, not a category of its own. One thesis, three layers.

### Layer I — Performance (the sports tech layer)

Technologies powering elite performance, professional ecosystems, and next-generation sports infrastructure. This layer is where breakthroughs originate: training methodology, recovery science, measurement, and the commercial infrastructure of professional and grassroots sport. Innovation proven with elite athletes reliably migrates outward to the wider population.

### Layer II — Wellness (the consumer health layer)

Consumer platforms translating personalised insights into daily behaviours — fitness, resilience, recovery, and coaching at scale. This is the distribution layer of the stack: it takes what works at the elite level and makes it habitual, affordable, and accessible for millions of people.

### Layer III — Longevity (the healthspan layer)

Preventative health infrastructure shifting healthcare from reactive to proactive — extending lifespan and, more importantly, healthspan. Diagnostics, biomarkers, preventative care pathways, and the data infrastructure that makes prevention economically viable for health systems and individuals.

### On artificial intelligence

AI is not a vertical. It is the operating standard across everything we back. Every Momentous investment must demonstrate how it leverages proprietary data and applied AI to create defensible moats. A company without a data advantage in these markets is a feature, not a business.

## How we invest

- Stage: pre-seed, true first cheques; occasionally seed.
- Initial cheque size: up to EUR 50,000.
- Geography: Europe-first (UK and EU), opportunistic US exposure.
- Style: thesis-led, high-conviction, concentrated. Depth over buzzwords.
- Process: direct conversations with the founding partner, fast decisions, no committee theatre.
- Post-investment: hands-on support on positioning, narrative, follow-on fundraising, and access to operators across sport, consumer health, and healthcare.

## Portfolio

- Phaze (https://phaze-app.com/) — a jet-lag management platform helping travelling athletes, teams, and performers arrive ready to perform.
- Tiva (https://tiva-performance.com/en) — performance cosmetics engineered for active skin, built for sport and training conditions.
- Hytro (https://hytro.com/) — blood-flow-restriction wearables used by elite athletes and teams to accelerate recovery and adaptation.
- Nex Health Intelligence (https://www.nex-intelligence.org/) — AI-driven infection prevention infrastructure for healthcare systems.
- Valeon (https://www.valeon.fit/) — AI infrastructure for gyms and fitness operators, automating operations and member intelligence.
- One further company currently in stealth.

## Founding Partner

Justin Seghers is the Founding Partner of Momentous, based in London. He leads all investment decisions and works directly with founders from first cheque onward. Momentous reflects a deliberately founder-first approach: one decision-maker, direct access, and conviction over consensus.

## Frequently asked questions

**What is Momentous?**
A European pre-seed venture capital fund based in London, investing in the Human Potential Stack — performance, wellness, and longevity — underpinned by applied AI.

**What is the Human Potential Stack?**
Momentous' investment framework covering three connected layers: performance (sports tech and elite performance infrastructure), wellness (consumer health platforms that turn insight into daily behaviour), and longevity (preventative healthspan infrastructure). Applied AI runs across all three rather than forming a separate category.

**What is pre-seed venture capital?**
The earliest institutional funding round a startup raises, typically before meaningful revenue and often before full product launch. Momentous writes true pre-seed cheques, before market validation.

**How much does Momentous invest?**
Initial cheques of up to EUR 50k, with the ability to continue supporting companies as they scale.

**What stage and geography does Momentous invest in?**
Pre-seed first, occasionally seed. Europe-first with a UK and EU focus, plus opportunistic US exposure.

**What does Momentous look for in a founder?**
Unreasonable conviction, unusual insight, and the endurance to build before consensus arrives. Thesis fit within the Human Potential Stack, and a credible data or AI advantage.

**Does Momentous invest in AI companies?**
Yes, but not as a standalone category. AI is expected in every investment as the operating standard, applied to proprietary data within performance, wellness, or longevity.

**Who is behind Momentous?**
Justin Seghers, Founding Partner, based in London.

**How can founders get in touch?**
Through https://momentous.vc or LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/momentousvc

**Where does Momentous publish its thinking?**
The Momentous Brief, a newsletter covering the Human Potential Stack: https://momentousbrief.com

## Links

- Home: https://momentous.vc/
- Manifesto: https://momentous.vc/manifesto
- Portfolio: https://momentous.vc/portfolio
- Privacy: https://momentous.vc/privacy
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/momentousvc
- Momentous Brief: https://momentousbrief.com