Monique Brown

Co-founder and Managing Director, The Growth Factory

Sacramento

Monique Brown is Co-founder and Managing Director at The Growth Factory, a nonprofit pre-seed accelerator where on a mission to find, fund and fuel 100+ world class founders from the Greater Sacramento region over the next 4-5 years. She is responsible for overseeing operations, deal flow sourcing and screening, program design and execution, partner and mentor engagement, and ecosystem collaborations.

Over the last 7 years, Monique has worked with hundreds of talented and committed early-stage founders supporting them through the application of lean startup principles, capacity building mentorship, and making connections to the right resources. She believes passionately in the promise of the next generation of entrepreneurs and has happily served as a mentor for programs like the Plasma and Big Bang Competition at UC Davis and the Sierra College Mentor Network.

Monique also serves as Board Chair for Social Venture Partners of Sacramento focused on galvanizing business leaders to contribute time, talent, and treasure in partnership with our brilliant and fearless nonprofit leaders to drive greater social impact into our community.

Outside of work, she is proud mom to 5 beautiful daughters (and 2 cats). She loves to hike, read and enjoy a great glass of wine with friends. She still can’t manage to keep even a houseplant alive and on top of her bucket list is to master an entire hip hop dance (it’s not going well).

Monique holds a BA in International Relations from The American University in Washington, D.C.