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• 20 Oct '15

  Nomanini raises funding from impact investment firm Goodwell

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  South African-based enterprise payments platform provider, Nomanini, has raised an undisclosed round of funding from impact investment firm Goodwell Investments. The investment in Nomanini is the second on-the-ground investment made by Goodwell Investments in South Africa from its EUR 50 million uMunthu fund, which is targeting startups and high growth companies in the financial inclusion [...]

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• 8 Sep '15

  Kukula Capital and eVa Fund invest $500,000 in Dot Com Zambia

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  Kukula Capital (“Kukula”), a leading Zambian venture capital investor, and eVentures Africa Fund (“eVA”), a leading Dutch venture capital fund specializing in E-commerce in Africa, are pleased to announce the signing of a transaction with Dot Com Zambia, a growing e-commerce company headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia. Kukula and eVA have jointly agreed to initially invest [...]

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• 21 May '15

  Q&A with MoboFree CEO on Africa’s fast-growing mobile marketplace (source: Ventureburn)

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  MoboFree is an African-based mobile marketplace with a social twist that allows people to buy, sell and swap products with each other. The goal for the startup-turned-growth-company is to position itself as Africa’s leading mobile scam-free marketplace while striving to favourably compete with a much richer OLX. I sat with the CEO and co-founder of [...]

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• 30 Apr '15

  Nomanini team inspires girls in ICT

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  Nomanini celebrated International ‘Girls in ICT Day’ in an effort to support the campaign to involve girls in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) profession. Every year on the fourth Thursday in April, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the global technology community celebrate ‘Girls in ICT Day’, an awareness-raising initiative designed to promote studies [...]

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• 23 Apr '15

  Mobofree on CNBC: ‘E-COMMERCE RISING IN NIGERIA’

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  According to a report released by McKinsey and Company, e-commerce could account for 10 per cent of retail sales in Nigeria by 2025. Social marketplace, Mobofree is contributing to this rapid development with 2 million monthly active users and over a thousand per cent jump in the number of classifieds published from Nigeria in the [...]

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• 31 Jan '15

  Umuntu Media (soft)launches Mimispot in Kenya

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  Umuntu Media’s passion for local African content started in 2010 with the launch of country portals and the award winning Mimiboard technology that facilitated local content creation and unlocking access across Africa. The experience, technology lessons and partnerships formed over the last years helped us to further integrate and develop technology products that matter. Now, [...]

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• 13 Mar '14

  ​Ex Googler joins Nomanini

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  Nomanini today announced that it has appointed Kuda Mushambi as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr Mushambi was formerly Manager of Publisher Partnerships at Google, UK. The appointment of Mr Mushambi, a leading expert in business development of technology platforms, comes amidst the expansion of Nomanini, both within Africa and in other emerging markets further abroad, building on [...]

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• 26 Feb '14

  Nomanini secures series-B funding from Rockbridge Investment Limited

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  Nomanini secures series-B funding from Seychelles-based investment company Rockbridge Investments Limited. The funds will enable Nomanini to expand its prepaid platform across Africa and into other developing countries.

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• 11 Feb '14

  MoboFree receives growth funding from eVentures Africa Fund

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  ‘To build and grow Africa’s leading mobile ‘scam-free’ market place, where people can buy, sell and swap products with other trusted people’, was the clear mission of Mobofree CEO and co-founder Neringa Kudarauskiene when they launched MoboFree in 2011. Today MoboFree is amongst the largest and most successful mobile social and trusted classifieds platforms in [...]

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• 19 Nov '13

  Nomanini prepaid vending terminals a big hit in Kenya

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  Source: humanipo.com - Susan Mwenesi Nomanini’s prepaid vending terminals have been a big hit in Kenya, with their selling volume surpassing that of South Africa just a month after they were introduced to the East African country. Speaking to HumanIPO, Nomanini’s founder Vahid Monadjem, said the terminals were brought into the county through a partnership with [...]

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