Amy Salzhauer is a member of the Benjamin Partners Family Office and a Founder and Managing Partner at Good Growth Capital, a majority women-owned venture capital fund known for finding, funding and growing superior, defensible technology companies that fill pressing societal needs. She was previously the CEO of Ignition Ventures, where she helped start companies worth over US $1 billion out of science labs in areas such as chip-based fuel cells, self-organizing networks, selective brain cooling, and advanced materials.
Amy is an inventor who holds several patents, speaks internationally about entrepreneurship and leadership, and has served on multiple for-profit and nonprofit boards, including ABM Medical, Coaptech, Ember Corporation, Leuko Labs, Spiro Robotics, Tevard Biosciences, MTEC, the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, and Roper St Francis Hospital. Her prior experience also includes writing for magazines like Newsweek, Science, Technology Review, and Harvard Business Review; researching radioactive mutant slime molds; winning a silver medal at the World Championships as a member of the U.S. National Dragonboat Team; and serving as the Assistant Director of a non-profit environmental organization in Washington D.C. She has been featured on the covers of multiple business magazines and her many recognitions include being chosen multiple times as a top “40 Under 40” business leader and being selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “One Hundred Top Global Leaders for Tomorrow.”
Amy holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, an M.Phil in Plant Sciences from Cambridge University where she was a Herschel Smith Harvard Scholar; and an MBA from MIT.