Amy Salzhauer

Managing Partner

Amy brings twenty-four years of experience in finding transformative science companies and leading science-based businesses to the team, having served previously as the CEO of Ignition Ventures, where she and Good Growth Managing Partner Maureen Stancik Boyce 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 serves on multiple for-profit and non-profit boards, including ABM Medical, Leuko Labs, Pleural Dynamics, Spiro Robotics, Tevard Biosciences, MTEC, the ASU Interplanetary Initiative, and the Roper St. Francis Hospital Foundation. Amy’s 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 Sloan School of Management.