We believe in the power of human creativity to solve the world’s toughest challenges.

Our calling is to unlock that potential.

Our Story

Good Growth Ventures was born out of a realization that there was a gap in support services for social impact entrepreneurs to design, launch, and scale impactful initiatives.

Good Growth Ventures was launched in 2017, with its first project "Home Geographic,” a platform connecting tribal and traditional artisans to modern homes and spaces. Since then, Good Growth Ventures has expanded to leadership development programs for women in Silicon Valley, designed and delivered social impact accelerator programs for USAID in Central America, and has consulted clients to raise over $350 million in funding for diverse impactful initiatives.

How we work with our partners.

  • We apply a Design-Thinking process to support our partners to design new products and services.

    Design-Thinking follows a five-steps process:

    1. Empathize: research user needs and problems

    2. Define: define and prioritize user needs

    3. Ideate: Ideate solutions to meet user needs

    4. Prototype: Built a draft solution for a product or service

    5. Test: Pilot and test new solutions

  • For large programs, we provide market research and assessments to inform the direction to prioritize.

  • We work with our partners by supporting business development efforts, by either supporting you through the grant application processes, or by drafting the grant application ourselves.

Our Founder

Our founder Maeve Quigley, CEO and founder of Good Growth Ventures, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, but at an early age experienced a calling to “make her life useful.” An exchange program in high school in Argentina opened her eyes to the vast untapped human potential of creative, smart individuals who, out of the circumstances of their birth, lacked the social, educational, and financial networks to create a larger impact. She realized then her calling to become an inclusive economic development specialist.

Maeve subsequently studied Economics and Policy Studies at Rice University and launched her career in international foreign assistance projects. She co-founded two non-profit organizations in her first year after graduating from university. She then served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, working in health equity and economic inclusion programs, and later became a contractor for USAID, managing health equity and economic development projects upwards of $60 million in value in Angola, Nigeria, Ecuador, El Salvador, and throughout Central America. Maeve then gained her MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management, and a Certificate in Design Thinking (Product and Service Design) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which time she co-founded three technology and corporate in-house startups.

She is a globally-recognized thought leader in technology, impact, and solution design, and has been invited to speak at the United Nations/World Trade Organization and numerous global tech conferences. Maeve speaks six languages with business fluency (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Lao, and Dutch), and resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with her husband and two cats.