Gravity is changing the way companies hire talent.

While organizing a VC Tour in Munich, Domenico created a Notion page for all participants.  When his internship at an early-stage VC ended, he started sourcing potential candidates on LinkedIn who would become his successor.

He set relevant filters, created lists with candidates, and texted them one by one. However, he recognized that it is impossible to see whether a student is looking for an internship or a working student position on LinkedIn.

The Notion page came to mind, and the idea of a pre-filtered list of high-potential, available candidates started to take off. Domenico collected people from his network and listed them on the page which he distributed to Startups and VCs. This is when Jobmatch was born.

Domenico was able to get the first 30 students on JobMatch and connected them with VCs and startups from his personal network. The goal was to enable companies to request an introduction with one click.

When Domenico joined Momentum, we saw the potential to take JobMatch to the next level by upgrading the Notion page to a scalable web application with many more features.

Within a few months, we built a platform for students and companies to make hiring as easy as possible. We launched the MVP in early February through constant collaboration between the business and tech team. Within a couple of days over 200 students and over 40 companies signed up for the platform.

We're working on new features to connect the brightest minds with the most innovative companies. As of now, you can use filters such as university, degree, and availability, to find potential candidates from amazing organizations such as Baby VC, Start Global, Innovis, Q-Summit, and many more. With these features, you can quickly find your next intern and reach out to them.

Recruiting is just the beginning. At Momentum we do not aspire to build just another hiring tool - but rather build a central infrastructure for the European startup ecosystem.

We want Gravity to promote innovation by building the best platform for connecting top talents who want to join startups and VCs.

Let's see where this journey takes us… ;)

Launching Gravity

Connecting future builders is not as easy as it sounds….

The idea of building products has always fascinated me, creating new things that change areas of our life. But there was always one problem - technical implementation. Let's face it: 99% of the products that fundamentally change markets are based on technology and I can't code.

First to Berlin, where many people are aligned behind one idea: Building new stuff. That's where I met Jonas and Maxim. Besides the fact that we got along right from the start, they were able to do something I always wanted to do: code and implement new product ideas.

This is where the idea for Momentum was born.

When we looked at the different universities we saw many exciting opportunities to get in touch with other people. Unfortunately, there is usually one problem. You stay among yourselves. Business students talk to business students, tech students talk to tech students. And that's it! No exchange, no overlap. Sankt Gallen is 30 minutes away from the ETH Zurich and yet there is little to no collaboration.

We talked to many different players in the European ecosystem, from VCs to corporates, startups and their successful founders to students from all kinds of backgrounds. We found one consistent sentiment: business and tech should be connected at a very early stage.

Valeria and Linus joined us from the start, a project that at this time was only a wild idea. We shared the same passion: Building products and developing innovative business models.

We are not just another anonymous entrepreneurship network with unused Slack channels and self-promoting members.

We are a small community of friends, working together on our ideas and leveraging each other’s creativity and expertise.

Besides working on our projects, we create a network of business angels, early stage VCs, successful founders and strategic partners around Momentum to constantly learn from their experience and past mistakes. Therefore, we are looking for experts in specific topics like funding, growth, hiring, tax or law, to share their insights right when we need them while building real products in real markets. In turn, these experts get an insider's perspective into the mindsets of bright students on the ground floor of large entrepreneurship movements from many different universities, already starting their initial ventures.

Each Momentum cohort is like a family. A group of 25 entrepreneurial students from all over Europe (ETH, Mannheim, WHU, St.Gallen, Cambridge, EPFL, Nova and many more) connected by a common passion for technology and a willingness to build and scale disruptive products. By now we are 16 people: Henri, Jonas, Maxim, Valeria, Linus, Greta, Maxime, Anna, Justus, Martin, Marlon, Jackie, Domenico, Anaïs, Jeremy, and Vinitra.

If you're passionate about building things and feel you're the right fit to round out the team, apply to join us today.

We are Momentum, trying to reshape the way people from different backgrounds work together, already bursting with ideas on projects. We want to be a catalyst for student entrepreneurs by encouraging interdisciplinary exchange. We can’t wait to show the first results.

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