Wesco Bets $10M on Kojo + Procore’s New CEO

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Owen Drury
September 30, 2025

$10M lands in construction tech, Procore shuffles leadership, and Oracle makes a bold move

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

💰 Maria Davidson (Kojo) lands $10M from Wesco, taking her raise total to $94M, the most ever by a female founder in contech.

⚡ Data centers dominate demand, but are contractors overexposed?

🏗️ Procore names Ajei Gopal as CEO (straight from Ansys, but is it bold enough?

🖥️ Oracle doubles down on construction with ERP + Primavera Cloud.


But that’s not all:

  • Dustin DeVan argues why the industry must shift from design-then-price to price-then-design.

  • Kevin Halter makes the case that you can’t close big enterprise deals over Zoom.

  • Stjepan Mikulic joins to share the global view of AI in AEC: excitement, skepticism, and what’s real.


🎧 Listen now for:

  • The hidden risks of contractors betting everything on data centers

  • Why “strategic” capital matters more than ever in contech

  • How consolidation, JVs, and labor shortages are reshaping the supply chain


🗣 Bonus: Some personal highlights

  • Maria admits she still interviews every single final-round candidate at Kojo (140 people and counting)

  • Dustin may or may not have bought Baker Hughes stock mid-show

  • Owen records while his house has no heating thanks to renovations

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