Monica Plaza

I lead CapitalG's Platform team, where we help portfolio companies grow by opening doors to enterprise buyers, connecting their leaders with experts from Google and beyond, and taking on the infrastructure and go-to-market projects that come with fast growth. I focus here because I have deep empathy for founders at disruptive companies, where there is rarely a roadmap, and hard calls get made every day on limited data.

A generalist at heart, I have been drawn throughout my career to roles that stretch across a whole business rather than one corner of it. I joined Google in 2008 and spent a decade in sales, operations, and revenue leadership roles across both established (Google Ads) and emerging (Google Consumer Surveys, Area 120) businesses, then joined Wonolo, a platform disrupting the temporary staffing industry, rising from VP of Supply to Chief Strategy Officer and steering the business past 1 million workers. I also spent a year running my own advisory practice, coaching executives and companies through the messiness of change.

I hold a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. A native San Franciscan, I live in the Bay Area with my husband and two sons, and when I'm not chauffeuring to soccer games and swim meets, you'll find me reading (or, more likely, listening to) a book or creating unnecessarily-ambitious charcuterie boards.