Nairobi → New York → Canada → Silicon Valley

Technology is fuel.
I put it where it burns.

Technology-powered turnaround specialist.

Ten years building global technology products inside Google — IoT and AdTech — and ConTech at Procore, through to IPO. Now bringing that expertise to solve business problems.

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Looking to meet investors, operators buying businesses, and builders in the unglamorous middle.

Maggie Ngugi
15+ years finance & product
Ex-Google · IoT & AdTech
Ex-Procore · to IPO
MBA Finance · Fordham Gabelli
US + Kenya
What I'm building

Three things. One operator.

Different stages, same move.

Live

Africa Tech for Tomorrow

A 501(c)(3) building community computer labs in rural Kenya, run in partnership with local organizations. 120+ children have touched a computer for the first time — now raising in 2026 to build the first lab.

atft.africa →
In build

Buying & turning around businesses

Acquiring companies that have stalled and using technology to make them worth more. Most buyers cut costs. I fix what's actually stuck.

Ongoing

Solving problems with technology

My superpower. Growth, data infrastructure, international expansion, and roadmaps that have stopped moving — for companies that need it.

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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.

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.

Customer growth flywheel

I unblock business growth bottlenecks

Procore was growing fast in a market where both the technology and the regulations kept shifting. I re-architected an archaic, cost-center onboarding flow into a self-service system that was internationalized and regulatory-compliant — it saved millions and opened millions more in growth. At Google I cleared a core data project that had been stalled for eighteen months, giving the smart home a solid foundation as IoT protocols changed underneath it.

Revenue growth powered by AI

I put AI where it moves the number

I took over an advertising product at Google that was missing its financial targets, charged it with AI and optimized it for evolving agentic experiences — and it became the only product in its group to beat its revenue targets, for a full year straight.

International expansion

I take products across borders

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

Platform & ecosystem scale

I build for scale and value

Finance and technology together. I take the insights and systems already sitting inside a business and extend the product past its own functionality. At Google and Procore I built the marketplaces and partner ecosystems that let other companies grow the market alongside us.

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.

Reach me

Two ways in.

Just say hello

Twenty minutes to meet properly and find a common point of connection. No agenda needed.

Open my calendar

Or bring me something stuck

For tech founders and business operators trying to find scale through technology and AI. Come with the actual problem — twenty minutes is enough to find the real cause.

Tell me what's stuck

Not ready to talk? Follow the build.

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Or email me directly: Maggie@maggiengugi.com