Pax Momentum

Managing Partner Matt Hanson leads the investment process alongside his sons Jack and Jamie Hanson, who serve as Partner and Co-Founder roles respectively. Jamie is currently on leave to Chicago Booth through spring 2027 according to the firm's website. The three Hansons constitute the entire disclosed investment team.

Pax deliberately avoids network-based deal flow, building what it calls a wider aperture that surfaces founders by the product they are building rather than who they know. The firm evaluates B2B technology products across categories, prioritizing founders with a history of execution under difficulty and a clear read on why the market opportunity exists now.

Pax Momentum functions as an institutional venture firm raising external capital, not a family office. The Hanson family runs the investment team, but the firm deploys into third-party startups through a structured pre-seed fund vehicle rather than managing a single-family balance sheet.

Every portfolio company participates in a live, virtual, six-week sales-development program requiring roughly six hours per week. The curriculum focuses on the practical mechanics of B2B sales — pipeline construction, repeatable process, and funnel diagnostics — aimed at giving technical founders a toolkit they can use when something in their sales motion breaks down.

Pax writes $200,000 to $500,000 checks as the first institutional capital or immediately after a friends-and-family round, targeting roughly 5% ownership. A 0.25% equity stake is allocated specifically to cover the GTM program, making the arrangement part-term-sheet, part-operating-expense.

The firm invests across the United States and Canada, with occasional exposure to Europe according to its website. The portfolio includes companies in Latin America — such as a platform digitizing the cancer patient journey — suggesting opportunistic international reach beyond its stated core geographies.

Pax is the only pre-seed fund known to embed a mandatory operator program into its financing terms — every investment carries a contractual obligation to complete the six-week GTM bootcamp, and the firm deducts a 0.25% stake specifically for it. Traditional pre-seed funds offer mentorship or platform resources voluntarily; Pax makes it a condition of the check.