About Maarten

Maarten van der Heide, Founder at Momentum Labs Consulting

20+ years building and shipping hardware.

I've designed, built, and shipped products across connected devices, consumer electronics, and physical products. From lab bench to factory floor to leading global R&D organizations at Sonos, Polaroid, Spinn, Dott, and a growing number of startups and scale-ups.

I started Momentum Labs because too many great ideas die not because the technology was wrong, but because the execution path was. The team wasn't structured right. The architecture locked too early (or too late). The process couldn't keep up.

There's no reason every founder needs to learn those lessons the hard way. I work alongside teams to make sure the decisions that compound for years get the benefit of experience, not just ambition.

People

Team structure, capability gaps, leadership, hiring, org design

Product

Architecture, cost assumptions, technical risks, CoGM, manufacturing readiness

Process

Development workflow, decision-making, timeline reality, cross-functional alignment


Based in Amsterdam. Working globally with hardware teams and investors across Europe, Nordics, and the US.