Founded by Vahid Monadjem, an Iranian-American born in Germany and raised in the U.S. and Swaziland. Monadjem consulted for McKinsey in Johannesburg, South Africa where he experienced the pain consumers and Small Businesses went through minus banks accounts and in 2010 quit to start Nomanini, “anytime” in Zulu, in 2010. Nomanini is present in South Africa with projects in Kenya and Nigeria. This round will help the Monadjem sign up more local enterprises in each market to create a locally relevant product on the company’s prepaid platform. In March this year, Noamini hired Kuda Mushambi from Google to help establish ad partnerships around its markets.
