A founder-led venture studio
Good Problem Ventures is a founder-led venture studio creating technology products across work, health and everyday life.
Products built from firsthand problems, developed into independent commercial opportunities.
Good Problem Ventures is the company behind a growing portfolio of technology products created by Stephen McGrath.
Each one began with a problem he had encountered directly. Rather than stopping at the idea, he researched the market, built the product and started testing whether it could become a viable business.
The portfolio now includes products at different stages, from early validation through to launched businesses with users, customers, partnerships or investment.
Start with a real, repeated problem that existing products do not solve properly.
Turn the idea into a working product that people can see, use and understand.
Put it in front of users, customers and industry partners to gather evidence.
Bring in investment, commercial partners or operators when a venture is ready to grow.
Every figure belongs to one named venture. Nothing is combined into a portfolio total.
Full progress ↗A portfolio of independent products, connected by the same approach: find a genuine problem, build something useful and test whether it can become a strong business.
Independent intelligence for the recruitment technology market.
TA Tech Finder helps employers and industry professionals discover and compare recruitment technology. It has developed into a substantial market directory, with more than 1,350 vendors across approximately 48 categories.
Live and gaining traction
Accessible mental wellbeing support for students.
lunaMIND is being developed to make mental wellbeing support more accessible and relevant to young people. It has raised £8,000, built a waitlist of approximately 150 people, established a partnership with YMCA Tayside and opened conversations with universities and colleges in Glasgow.
Funded associated venture
lunaMIND operates through a separate company because it has existing SAFE investors. It is included here as an associated venture founded and developed by Stephen McGrath.
A business development system built around how people actually sell.
Comperi develops an active business-development workflow into a product that can be used by multiple sales professionals. The underlying system has been used by one salesperson to generate approximately £3,000 in commission over two months.
MVP based on a working sales system
Good Problem Ventures has taken multiple businesses from an observed problem to a working product. The next stage is not simply building more. It is identifying which opportunities have the strongest potential and finding the right people to help develop them.
We are interested in speaking with investors, experienced operators, commercial partners and potential acquirers who see an opportunity within an individual venture or across the wider portfolio.
Back an individual business with a defined product, market and next stage.
Take an active role in developing a venture that matches your experience.
Help validate, distribute or integrate a product within an existing market.
Explore a wider partnership across Good Problem Ventures and its businesses.
The aim is not to keep every venture forever. Each opportunity is tested against a small number of questions.
Stephen McGrath is a product builder and recruitment technology specialist based in Glasgow. He has identified the problems, developed the ideas, built the initial products and worked to validate them.
Good Problem Ventures exists to develop those opportunities more deliberately, with the capital, commercial experience and operators each venture needs to grow.
Why Good Problem Ventures exists ↗