Memento Labs · We invest in people who build
We back exceptional founders before the market knows their name.
We fund and build new software, technology, biotech, and entertainment companies with ambitious early-career founders. Capital, infrastructure, and hands-on operators for the first 3 to 12 months, so you move from idea to company with speed and discipline.
Talent is everywhere. Infrastructure is not.
The best founders usually start with a technical insight or an obsession with a hard problem, not a finance team and a legal stack. Most never get capital, never learn to hire, price, or sell, and the idea dies on the runway. That should not decide who gets to build. We give early founders the operating system to launch.
Your build plan
See how your first year could look.
Tell us where you are and what you need most. We back the founder first, then build the company around you. This is a sketch, not a contract, but it is close to how we actually work.
Where you are
What you need most
We start by getting you funded and financially sound, then run the year like this.
Validate
We form the company and put you in front of real customers to pressure-test the problem before you build a thing.
Build
Ship a focused MVP and run your first sales with our team in the trenches beside you.
Prove
Land first revenue and decide the next move: raise, scale, or keep building.
Capital + Infrastructure + Execution
From idea to operating company.
Initial capital
Funding to start building, testing, and launching, from day one.
Formation & compliance
Entity setup, contracts, policies, regulatory and risk infrastructure, handled in-house.
Accounting & finance
Bookkeeping, reporting, budgeting, and real financial discipline from the start.
HR & recruiting
Hiring, onboarding, role design, and the early people infrastructure most founders skip.
Sales & marketing
Target lists, outbound systems, positioning, landing pages, and early demand.
Operators on call
Experienced operators in the weekly trenches with you on execution and hard calls.
The Process
A 3 to 12 month sprint, not a passive accelerator.
Apply
Tell us who you are, the problem you want to solve, and why you are the one to solve it.
Founder review
We evaluate founder quality, problem selection, technical insight, and ability to execute.
Working sessions
We work a few problems together to see how you think and how fast the idea sharpens.
Incubation offer
Strong fit, and we offer to back the company through the platform.
Build phase
A 3 to 12 month launch sprint: capital, infrastructure, and a push toward real traction.
Scale or spin out
Continue building internally, raise outside capital, partner, or scale on your own.
Who We Back
We back builders, not pitch decks.
Students, graduates, researchers, engineers, scientists, and self-taught builders. You do not need everything figured out. You do need to be unusually curious, fast, coachable, and obsessed with a real problem.
Software
Vertical SaaS, workflow automation, AI-native apps, infrastructure, and developer tools.
Technology
Automation, data, AI, robotics, and systems that solve real-world problems.
Biotech & life sciences
Diagnostics, research tools, lab automation, computational biology, and medical software.
Entertainment
Media, content, gaming, and the platforms and tools shaping how people create and experience entertainment.
What Makes Us Different
We are not just investors.
Most investors write a check and expect you to figure out the rest. We build the company around you with an in-house team.
We are not a classroom.
No theory. Real customers, real products, real hiring, real revenue, and real decisions from week one.
We do not need perfect founders.
We back unusually high-potential people before they look obvious. Speed, curiosity, taste, and resilience over a polished deck.
Questions, answered.
Do I need to already have a company?
No. We work with founders at the idea, prototype, research, and early-company stage.
Do I need to have raised money before?
No. Many of our founders are pre-seed, pre-revenue, or pre-company formation.
Do I need to be technical?
Not always, but we are most interested in software, technology, biotech, entertainment, AI, and technically enabled models. Technical insight, domain expertise, or access to a hard problem matters.
Do you only work with students?
No. We back undergraduates, graduate students, recent graduates, researchers, engineers, scientists, and early-career operators.
How long is the incubation period?
Generally 3 to 12 months, depending on the company, founder, sector, and stage.
Do I need a pitch deck?
Helpful, not required. We care more about how you think, what you have learned, and whether you are serious about building.
Ready to build?
If you are serious about building something that matters, we want to hear from you.
You do not need a company, a raise, or a perfect deck. You need an idea worth chasing and the drive to chase it. We review applications on a rolling basis.
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