Founder · Builder · Operator
I build and run
businesses.
Project manager by training, builder by instinct. I turn ideas into operating companies — across construction, fintech, agritech, medical retail, and bottled water — and ship the software that runs them.
“What's the point of doing something if you're not going to do it to the fullest?”
Selected work
Ventures I've built, helped build and operate
Each of these is a real business with real customers — and most run on software I designed and built myself.
Summand Construction Group
LiveConstruction & development · Group CFO & Director
Construction and development management for the capital construction and fit-out market — delivering client projects across Africa with Circular Value Engineering.
With Julius Kinyanjui
Visit site →PoolVen
LiveFintech / Civic-tech · Founder & CFO
Crowdfunding for startups and pooled funds for counties — finance that organises communities.
With Pius Charles & Ruth Thuo
Visit site →Vache
LiveAgritech SaaS · Co-founder
Multi-tenant software for dairy farmers — herd management, planning, and a livestock genetics hub.
With Maureen Wairimu Kamanda
Visit site →Kiki's Medical Supplies
LiveMedical / E-commerce · Director & Shareholder
Premium medical apparel, fabrics, and consumables — luxury commerce for clinical work.
With Angela Kinya Kithinji
Visit site →Mayim Springs
LiveConsumer / Water · Founder
KEBS-certified purified water, built B2B-first for businesses across Kenya.
With Mary Wanjiru Munene
Visit site →Client work
Mwisho Bora
Client workFaith-based CBO
“A Good End” — a faith-based community organisation in Kahawa-West, Nairobi, walking alongside youth and families. Website designed and built by me.
About
A builder who can't sit still
My background is in project and construction management, sharpened with data analysis and an MBA in progress. But the real education has been starting things and seeing them through.
I'm a philomath — I learn obsessively, because every business I run demands a new skill. And a hodophile: the travel feeds the work, new places and new problems worth solving. What ties it together is a refusal to do anything halfway. I set my eyes on something and I get it — whatever it costs.
Today that means running ventures in construction, financial technology, dairy and agritech, medical retail, and bottled water — and building the software each one needs myself.
Education
- BSc, Project ManagementBachelor's degree
- BSc, Construction ManagementBachelor's degree
- Data AnalysisCertificate & Diploma
- Master of Business AdministrationIn progress
Writing
Notes on building & wealth
What KSh 10,000 a month really grows into
Everyone shows you the big compounding number. Almost nobody shows you what it's worth after inflation. Here's the honest version — with a calculator you can run yourself.
Doing it to the fullest
Why I refuse to do anything halfway — and what that has cost and taught me building businesses across Kenya.
Podcast
Ground Up
Building businesses in Africa from the ground up.
Ground Up is a show about building real businesses in Africa — the execution, not the hype. Hosted by Timothy W. Maina, a founder and operator across construction, fintech, agritech, and retail, each episode digs into how things actually get built and finished: the obstacles, the money, the people, and the discipline of seeing it through.
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