Abdulhamid Hassan won’t stop building until Mono becomes a fintech backbone

On September 24, 2024, as venture capital funding for African startups plummeted and anxiety around the decline grew, Abdulhamid Hassan, the founder of prominent open banking startup Mono, posted a simple tweet: “don’t give up. don’t die.” 

It wasn’t just a quip but a philosophy that’s guided the rise of the five-year-old YC-backed company, whose Delaware-registered parent company…