Industrial
Co-Innovation for the Next Decade
Momentum helps industries co-innovate with the best startups, technologies, and talent.
Genesis
India's industrial companies have spent decades building infrastructure, distribution networks, customer relationships, and market access. Startups are building the technologies that could transform these industries, but often lack the capital and scale to do it alone.
Momentum was created to bridge that gap.
We bring together industries, startups, technologies, operators, and strategic partners to unlock new growth opportunities and turn industrial infrastructure into a platform for innovation and long-term competitive advantage.
Why Companies Work With Momentum
The Problem:
Why most companies are moving too slowly?
Your infrastructure took decades to build. It is underutilized and not generating new value.
Industries have spent decades building infrastructure. Startups have the innovation but limited capital. When industries open up their infrastructure, capital barriers fall, innovation moves faster, and existing assets become platforms for new growth.
The best opportunities are already being built outside your organization.
India's startup ecosystem has created over $340B in value in under two decades. The next shift in your industry is likely already in progress, most companies just don't see it until it's too late.
Innovation is treated as a project. It needs to be a system.
The technologies, talent, infrastructure, and market access already exist. The challenge is bringing the right players together to create compounding value faster than anyone could alone.
Our Work
One of our earliest proof points was our partnership with Innovative Agrify Pvt Ltd, one of the South India's fast-growing agri-input companies. Over the last 12 months, the outcomes created the foundation for a long-term strategic engagement focused on growth and innovation.
150+
Innovation opportunities identified
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New products launched
+20%
Projected revenue addition this year
12
Months of uninterrupted execution
How Momentum Helps
Think of Momentum as the analysts and scouts behind the dressing room identifying the next match-winners before your competition does, and making sure your team plays the right game.
Your infrastructure becomes a growth platform.
Factories, distribution networks, customer relationships, and operational capabilities are not just assets, they are platforms for innovation. When Momentum connects the right startups and technologies to your existing infrastructure, idle capacity becomes new revenue, distribution becomes a launch channel, and customer trust becomes a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate.
You stop being reactive to disruption.
The technologies shaping your industry are emerging long before they become mainstream.Momentum operates at the edges of your industry tracking emerging startups, technologies, and researchers before they become obvious. You gain the visibility needed to prepare for it early.
You compress years of innovation into months of execution.
We translate business challenges into opportunities that startups can solve. We help emerging technologies into pilots your teams can execute. We structure governance, align stakeholders, and manage execution so your organization can move faster without distracting teams from their core responsibilities. The result is less friction, faster validation, and a shorter path from idea to impact.
You build a compounding system
Most innovation efforts are one-off experiments. Momentum is designed differently, we help companies build repeatable systems that continuously generate opportunities, partnerships, and growth.
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Your risk is lower than you think
Most innovation feels risky because companies bear all the uncertainty. We structure engagements around outcomes, creating incentives that align our success with yours.
Our First Partnership
Over 12 months, Momentum helped Agrify identify 150+ innovation opportunities across its business, launch 3 new products, build digital systems, and establish technology partnerships across India and Europe. These initiatives are projected to contribute an additional 20% revenue growth starting this year.
How Momentum Helps
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Enter new markets without disrupting what's already working.
Most companies fail at new markets because they bet internal resources before validating externally. Momentum runs structured pilot programs with startups and partners, so you learn fast and commit only when it makes sense.
[Companies expanding into adjacent markets are 2× more likely to generate excess shareholder returns]
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Launch in months, not years
Internal innovation cycles at large companies average 18–36 months. Startups move in 90 days. Momentum closes that gap and managing the execution so your internal teams don't have to.
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[Every month of reduced time-to-market = $90M in earnings for one med-tech company]
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Cut R&D costs by validating externally first
Momentum runs external validation programs using startups, researchers, and pilot partners so you know what works before committing internal R&D budgets.
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[95% of new products fail. Most of that money didn't have to be spent.]
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One partnership is a project.
A hundred partnerships is a competitive moat.
The companies pulling ahead are building compounding ecosystems where each startup engagement, research collaboration, and external partnership creates more advantage than the last.
Momentum helps industries build that system, not just the next initiative.
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[Companies engaging in external collaboration earn 3.95× more revenue than those that don't​]
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Know what's disrupting your industry before it disrupts you
Most of the industries are watching the same public signals as their competitors. Momentum embeds intelligence at the edges of your industry tracking what startups are building, where capital is flowing, and which technologies are 18 months from going mainstream.
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[45% of executives fear obsolescence within 10 years without innovation action.]
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Problems We Solve
Think of Momentum as the analysts and scouts behind the dressing room — identifying the next match-winners before your competition does, and making sure your team plays the right game.
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Your team is busy running the business
No one has the time to explore what’s next
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You know the market is changing
But you don’t have the bandwidth to move fast
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Strategy is not the problem
Execution is
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The best opportunities are happening outside your company
Most industries see them too late
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Your systems were built for stability
Markets now reward speed and adaptability
For decades, industries built advantage through scale, operations, and distribution. Today, markets are moving faster than traditional systems can adapt. Breakthrough innovation, specialized talent, and emerging technologies increasingly exist outside the organization.
The companies pulling ahead are not trying to build everything internally. They are building ecosystems that help them move faster, experiment smarter, commercialize quicker, and adapt continuously.
External collaboration is becoming the new infrastructure for industrial growth and long-term competitive advantage.
Momentum helps industries build that advantage.
The Rise of Ecosystem-Driven Industries
The New Competitive Advantage for Industries
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Move Faster Than Internal Innovation
Momentum helps industries reduce innovation friction by connecting them with startups, researchers, operators, and external ecosystems that accelerate problem-solving and execution.
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New Growth Opportunities
We help companies identify and launch new products, partnerships, and market opportunities beyond existing business lines through structured external collaboration.
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Access Technologies & Talent
Critical innovation increasingly exists outside traditional organizations. Momentum gives industries access to startups, researchers, and specialized operators globally.
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A Compounding Innovation System
The companies winning the next decade will not innovate alone. Momentum helps industries build long-term innovation pipelines, strategic relationships, and ecosystem-driven growth systems.
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Reduce R&D burden & costs
Momentum enables companies to test new products, technologies, and market opportunities through external collaboration reducing internal R&D burden, experimentation costs, and execution risk.
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Stay Relevant as Industries Evolve
Industries are being reshaped by new technologies & startup-led disruption. Momentum helps companies continuously identify what’s changing and adapt before competitors do.
Team
Momentum is built by people who have spent years inside India's startup and innovation ecosystem. Between us, we have reviewed over 6000 startups, built startup and innovation programs at India's largest startup institutions, helped founders raise capital from the best investors, and built relationships across Indian, European, and Nordic ecosystems. We bring one partner at a time the full weight of that network and we stay until the work is done.
Balaji BK
Founder & CEO
Mohamed Rizwan
Co-founder | Partner
Dr. Aravind Chinchure
Partner | Author | Advisor to Global Institutions
Alexander Zahari
Partner
Senthil Kumar
Partner
Ashwini BN
Associate
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We work closely with a limited number of companies, deeply understand their business priorities, and activate the right combination of startups, technologies, operators, researchers, and strategic partners to move faster than traditional systems alone.
You already have the foundation.
Let’s start with a discussion to understand your priorities and explore how we can support your next phase of growth. Together, we can identify the right opportunities and build momentum from there.
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/ Founder & CEO
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/ Co-founder
Ashwini BN
/ Associate
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/ Advisor
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