Maggie Ngugi — Technology is fuel

What I'm good at

I find what's stalled, and I put fuel in it.

Finance and business as the foundation. Technology as the tool. A 15+ year record unlocking businesses for scale, globally.

15 years stuck

I unblock what everyone else gave up on

Procore had a problem blocking its international expansion for fifteen years. I rebuilt new-customer sign-up into a self-service flow and it was gone. At Google I cleared a core data project that had been stalled eighteen months.

1 of 1

I turn around underperforming products

I took over an advertising product at Google that was missing its financial targets and turned it into the only product in its group to beat them — for a full year straight.

4 continents

I scale across borders

Procore's first international product manager to lead strategy across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. Relocated to run product expansion across four continents and helped get the company IPO-ready in 2021.

Two sides

I read the numbers and build for scale and value

An MBA in finance from Fordham Gabelli, top of my class — then ten years shipping product. Most operators have one side of that. Buying a business and fixing it needs both.

The arc

Nairobi to Silicon Valley — through New York and Canada.

Now connecting Africa to America.

I was a flight attendant in Kenya. Technology is what shifted me. It made a business degree in South Africa possible, and it's then that I fell in love with finance. That took me to New York for an MBA.

Then technology called, so I took my finance skills there — relocated by my companies to wherever the need to scale was. California, to Toronto, then back to Silicon Valley. Over a decade building product for big tech companies, and it sharpened everything I know.

It's time to take that expertise somewhere it matters more — through business, and through philanthropy.

Now I'm building a portfolio across two continents. The move is the same one I've made for years: find what's stalled, and put fuel in it.

My philanthropy is personal. When I went back to rural Kenya, the children in Taita Taveta didn't have the technology that made my future possible. Most of them had never touched a keyboard.

The gap was never talent. It was access to digital infrastructure. So I'm building computer labs in the fringes of Africa — and in 2025 I launched Africa Tech for Tomorrow from the summit of Kilimanjaro.

What I'm looking for

If you're one of these three, we should talk.

I'd love to connect with you.

Investors & capital partners

Let's build the relationship so opportunity can find us ready. We'll be ready to operate when the deal happens.

Operators buying businesses

People actually doing acquisition entrepreneurship. I want to compare notes, learn from your deals, and find the ones worth doing together.

Builders in the middle

Founders past the announcement and before the outcome. People who are actually in it, so we can find synergies.

Reach me

Two ways in.

Book twenty minutes

Grab a slot on my calendar so we can find a common point of connection.

Open my calendar

Or let me help you build

Book a time to solve your problems — for tech founders and business operators uncovering scale through technology and AI.

Book a working session

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Or email me directly: Maggie@maggiengugi.com

Technology is fuel.
I put it where it burns.